When students head back to school in the fall, some will get an unusual crash course in taxes and personal finance. In class lessons and explainer videos, they’ll be taught that workers are the ones “who bear the burden” of corporate income taxes, and that when big companies dodge taxes, it helps “protect employment and job creation.”

A study from Ball State University's Center for Business and Economic Research showed the need for better pay to attract and keep child care workers. (Adobe stock)

Immediately after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, when little was known about the white male shooter (except that he was a registered Republican), right-wing politicians directly blamed Democratic rhetoric for the shooting.

“Today is not just some isolated incident,” Sen. J.D. Vance wrote on X (7/13/24), just days before Trump named him as his running mate:

As universities begin implementing a new tenure law, debate continues over its potential effects on academic freedom and the preparation of future educators in Indiana. (Adobe stock)

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In the months before Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, the state’s legislature blocked a bill banning the sale of the type of assault rifle allegedly used in the attack. 

Dear Roberta,

In his speech in Detroit last night, President Biden laid out an agenda for the first 100 days of his second term. Among other initiatives it included:

Some 9,200 children are in foster care in Indiana. Advocates say the state’s handling of cases has been problematic, with some children spending years in the foster care system before finding permanent homes.

Indiana State Affair

When the Supreme Court’s Ohio v. EPA decision blocked Environmental Protection Agency limits on Midwestern states polluting their downwind neighbors, a sad but telling coda came in Justice Neil Gorsuch’s opinion. In five instances, it confused nitrogen oxide, a pollutant that contributes to ozone formation, with nitrous oxide, better known as laughing gas.

Instead of counting Joe Biden’s brain cells, we need to be counting “vigilantes,” the self-proclaimed vote fraud hunters who, under new state laws, can challenge the vote of their fellow Americans and stop their votes from being counted.

The Real Issue for Biden

This article first appeared on The Electronic Intifada at tinyurl.com/2a736esa, on June 27 and has been lightly edited. 

When you’re in Gaza and see the destruction firsthand, the clearest conclusion is that Israel’s stated goals are an epic lie, on a par with “a people without a land for a land without a people,” packaged and sold to the world.

From Colt to Caterpillar, American companies are earning big profits off of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, turning the horrors of war into boardroom victories.

Ziklag, an invitation-only charity organization for rich Christians, aims to take dominion over what it sees as the seven major spheres of public life, which it calls “mountains”: business, science and technology, family, arts and media, church, education and government. Credit: Nesma Moharam, special to ProPublica

Canada-based news agency Reuters (6/14/24) revealed that the Pentagon, beginning in spring 2020, carried out a year-long anti-vax messaging campaign on social media. Reuters reported that the purpose of the clandestine psychological operation was to discredit China’s pandemic relief efforts across Southeast and Central Asia, as well as in parts of the Middle East.

Shawn Fain, President of the United Automobile Workers, calls for a ceasefire in Gaza outside of the U.S. Capitol on December 14, 2023. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images.

Democratic candidate for governor Jennifer McCormick speaks with voters on the campaign trail. (Credit: McCormick campaign)

The apartments on the 200 block of Wood Street, managed by Evergreen Campus Rentals, show signs of wear from the inside.

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Residents of apartments due for destruction next summer say the luxury high rise replacing them wouldn’t necessarily fit their budget.

“If you want to live anywhere near this area, it’s $800 to over a grand,” said Madie Zoeller, an incoming senior in nursing and a resident of one of the apartments.

Hoosiers making minimum wage would need to work untenable hours to afford housing, a new report found.

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The housing affordability gap for Indiana’s minimum wageworkers grew according to the latest “Out of Reach” report, finding that those Hoosiers would need to work 122 hours per week to afford a Fair Market Rate two-bedroom apartment.

An illustration of Anthony Comstock, published in Puck magazine in 1906. Public Domain via the Library of Congress

As they celebrate the second anniversary of their victory overturning Roe v. Wade, anti-abortionists are now setting their sights on eliminating medicated abortions and even contraception. 

Well, I see where Ron DeSantis has petulantly stripped thirty-two million dollars of art funding from the Florida budget.

Ron DeSantis stripped more than $32m in arts and culture funding from Florida’s state budget over his hatred of a popular fringe festival that he accused of being “a sexual event”, critics of the rightwing governor say.

Food Bank of Northwest Indiana reminds the community food support is crucial year-round, not just during the holidays. (Adobe Stock)

On June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in two cases — Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless, Inc. v. Department of Commerce — reversed a bedrock principle of administrative law called the Chevron doctrine. This decision will affect any area that federal agencies regulate, including environmental issues, reproductive justice and internet access too.

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Joe Biden and The New York Times (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A day after the first presidential debate, President Joe Biden energetically took the stage in Raleigh, N.C. to talk about his less-than-stellar performance in Atlanta on Thursday night.

According to a Washington Post database of the 2023 reimbursements, the 328 House of Representatives members who reported reimbursements received $5.8 million under the program. (Getty Images)

Indiana’s nine U.S. House members received a combined $199,332 in reimbursements for lodging, meals and incidentals in 2023 as part of a new program that allows federal lawmakers to recoup expenses without providing receipts. 

The staff of the Boiling Point don’t consider themselves student journalists. They consider themselves journalists.

The official paper of Shalhevet, a prestigious orthodox Jewish day school in Los Angeles, is not a mere extra-curricular activity for the college-bound, but a living record of the larger community. And so the fact that the school is censoring the paper’s coverage of pro-Palestine viewpoints is an illustration of the nation’s current crisis of free speech and the free press as Israel’s slaughter in Gaza rages on.