To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Friday, April 18, 2025

Observercast

Sanity Rising

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Sometimes real life catches up with unreal politics, and the good news is that this is happening at last for universal child care. In many – if not most – families, mothers still have primary responsibility for the care of children, and yet, whether out of preference, economic necessity or both, 57% of women are now in the workforce, including 75% of America’s nine million single moms. Recently, the coronavirus pandemic has dramatically cut the […]

Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower
Populist author, public speaker and radio commentator Jim Hightower writes "The Hightower Lowdown," a monthly newsletter chronicling the ongoing fights by America's ordinary people against rule by plutocratic elites. Sign up at JimHightower.substack.com.