So what? It's not like American workers make more money by being more productive. Why not look at metrics that are actually related to people's lives? Poverty rate, infant mortality rate, life expectancy, quality of life, economic mobility, press freedom, literacy rate?

I know it's hard for capitalists to comprehend, but the economy isn't everything. It doesn't matter if a bunch of companies make a ton of money, if the government doesn't collect taxes off it, and spend that tax income on its people.

What are you talking about? The Republicans are not "out of touch" with public opinion. They do not care about it. They are not attempting to represent the will of the people, they are imposing their own will upon the people.

Every Canadian I know expects that Americans are mostly unaware of anything happening outside of their own country.

Don't forget the new work requirements for medicaid, which will be disastrous for all the unemployed folks this article is about.

Which conservatives objected to the BBB, and didn't end up voting for it?

That's interesting. I only expect 0 ads and 0 trailers when I don't pay for a movie.

Wages have been disconnected from productivity for over 4 decades. Like, that's Bernie's whole point; employers see all the benefits of improved productivity, and workers do not get any more money or leisure time.

Your employer does not want to offer you that deal because your employer wants as much of your labour as they can get for as little money as they can get away with paying. They aren't incentivized to pay you one cent more than it takes to stop you from quitting.

Um... yes it does. He's the director of the department of Health and Human Services for this Republican administration. He sets health policy for the Republican party.

In fact, you might want to consider organizing with your coworkers, and trying to negotiate as a collective. I've heard that sort of thing can actually result in meaningful policy changes.

Don't forget prison population.

This might be true if the drop in population were controlled, and the government could easily stop this trend once it reaches its desired population. But this drop in population is uncontrolled, and I don't blame them for worrying about it.

So the US will deny visas for officials from countries that censor social media (including "demand[ing] that American tech platforms adopt global content moderation policies"), while simultaneously denying visas based on the social media posts of the visa applicant? What a bunch of hypocrites!

Of course, the authoritarianism is much worse than the hypocrisy.

And I'm sure, based on the Trump administration's history, that this process will involve deliberate analysis, followed by targeted removal of specific regulations in order to achieve the result they want. It definitely won't be a reckless, slash-and-burn approach that leads to a disaster, followed by some halfhearted backtracking.

There are zero US cities with a population as high as Quebec's. If you go by metro areas, there are 3. If you go by combined statistical area, there are 6. If Quebec were a US state, it would have about the 12th highest population of states.

This is a strong contender for the most deliberately ignorant comment I've read in my life.

"If you ignore all the complexity, it's a simple topic."

It's like you don't even understand the concept of higher education. Spoiler alert: it's not just job training.

What's your position on this? Do you think it's wrong of the Trump administration to be doing this? Or were you fine with the Biden administration doing it?