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Wages are barely keeping pace with rising costs, and real gains have almost disappeared. The cost of living is increasing across six fronts, including housing, childcare, healthcare, and utilities, making it a challenging time for many families to make ends meet.

The June jobs report, Florida’s World Cup Kool-Aid, and what working families should actually do. By Wayne “Big Sarge” Ince The country added 57,000 jobs in June. Dow Jones economists had penciled in 115,000. We came in at roughly half. Labor force participation slid to 61.5 percent, the lowest since March 2021. The Bureau of […]

<p>Finding the right mental health support after military service is rarely as simple as making one call or booking one appointment. Veterans carry different

If you draw VA disability, this is about you. The House just pulled H.R. 9237, the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act, off the floor for the second time in less than a month. The bill bundles sixty-plus veterans measures including the Major Richard Star Act and the Love Lives On Act. Overdue bills. Good bills.

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rqrfk-1b13560 This episode investigates a wave of deadly encounters involving federal agents—ICE, National Guard, DEA—and the families left in their wake, highlighting repeated failures: wrong targets, no body cameras, sealed evidence, and stalled investigations. From Joan Sebastian Guerrero and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo to Tyrin Johnson and Renee Nicole Good, the story links these deaths to […]

This ruling isn’t about security. It’s about race math and power. A white nationalist administration is using immigration law as a blunt instrument to hold back the demographic clock. The Supreme Court just handed Trump a loaded weapon, pointed it at Haitian and Syrian families, and told him to pull the trigger. A 6–3 green […]