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A two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for childcare to be affordable, study says. ‘It’s easy to see why birth rates are falling’

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Not quite true. 20-30 years ago would be better than now. Slightly worse medical science is offset by everything else being farther up the collapse timeline.

I get our argument but I don’t think it’s accurate to overlook how terrible things have gotten in the past few decades just by taking the longview.

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In a time of war with Iran, Americans unite in aggravation over sticker shock at the gas pump

I wish Americans would show more horror at the Iranian schoolgirls that we killed last week. But then again, republicans lack empathy as a rule. It’s too much to ask for these people to care about those dead kids, or the dead kids the Trump raped and murdered to hide the evidence. Or the thousands upon thousands of dead kids Trump killed by cutting USAID. That’s all too abstract. Prices at the pump, that’s what does it.

We need to completely rebuild our society and values system.