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The Rise and Decline of America’s Middle Class: A Tale of Policy, Purchasing Power, and Inequality

August 18, 2024

In the decades following World War II, the United States witnessed unprecedented economic growth and prosperity that significantly benefited middle- and working-class Americans. From the late 1940s through the 1970s, the American Dream seemed more attainable than ever. As wages increased, homeownership expanded, and the purchasing power of the average worker was robust. However, this […]

Americans Still Consider the Economy As Top Policy Priority

February 18, 2023

With concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic again fading, the American public has once again placed strengthening the economy as the top policy priority President Joe Biden and Congress should address in 2023. According to the Pew Research Center, there is an increased focus on deficit reduction especially among Republican voters and those who lean Republican. […]

President of Women’s Republican Club of New Orleans Touts Biblical Positives of Slavery

May 2, 2021

Martha Henderson Huckabay, President of the Women’s Republican Club of New Orleans, was previously in Big Easy Magazine’s spotlight for warning of “nanobytes” in COVID vaccines. Huckabay has once more garnered attention by defending the institution of slavery, by weighing into a discussion between State Representative Raymond Garofalo (R-Chalmette) and State Representative Stephanie Hilferty (R-Metairie). […]

Grading the Trumpian Coup: A COIN Analyst Reacts

January 26, 2021

Author’s note: I don’t claim to be the world’s foremost expert on extra-legal campaigns to usurp power, but neither am I a completely unqualified bar stool-patriot here to mansplain tyranny. I am a retired 35-D. That would be an Army Intelligence officer, for those who are unfamiliar with the designator. That required many long days […]

Key Issues for a Highly Coveted Demographic this Election: The Latino Community

October 12, 2020

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden recently made a comment about Latinos, in which he stated Latino voters are “an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.” Out of the many countries that constitute Latin America, 8 nationalities have the highest populations inside the U.S.: Mexican, Puerto Rican, Salvadoran, Cuban, Dominican, Guatemalan, Colombian […]

The Way Out Is Through

October 16, 2019

I hope it was a wake-up call. Republicans now have super majorities, despite runoffs, in both the House and the Senate and they will use this to dictate what happens for the next four yearsincluding the intensely import 2020 census redistricting. Once again, Republicans are free to gerrymander us even further for the next decade. […]

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