Tag: Social Issues

China’s Population Decline Impacts its Education Sector

China’s population has entered an era of negative growth, and the impact of plummeting birth rates has spread to the education sector. The Asian giant may have seen a short baby boom in 2015 as many families decided to have a second child after the communist regime’s draconian one-child policy was lifted. However, instead of…


11-Year-Old Reads Sexually Explicit Book to Maine School Board Meeting

Onlookers gasped as 11-year-old Knox Zajac read a sexually explicit passage from a book in Windham Middle School’s (WMS) library to the Windham School Board in Maine. Knox Zajac read the scene in a noticeably prepubescent voice. The book Knox Zajac read, “Nick and Charlie,” by Alice Oseman describes a gay sex scene between two…


Shapiro’s Pennsylvania Budget Projects Revenue From Sale of Still-Illegal Recreational Marijuana

Although he didn’t mention cannabis in his budget address, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s $45 billion spending plan (pdf) sets the stage for a bill to legalize recreational marijuana this legislative session. The legislature is now working on the 2023/2024 budget. The budget projects spending beyond the fiscal year, as common, so lawmakers can predict how…


West Virginia Passes Law Restricting ‘Substantial’ Government Intervention in Religious Freedoms

Jim Justice, the Republican Governor of West Virginia, has signed into law a bill seeking to protect religious freedoms from unnecessary government interference. The “Equal Protection for Religion Act” was passed in the Republican-led Senate by a vote of 31-3 last week and signed into law by Justice on Thursday. The bill (pdf) prohibits the…


Violence No. 1 Social Justice Issue in Black Communities: Rev. Markel Hutchins

Black and brown Americans are doing themselves a disservice by concentrating their social justice activism around animosity toward the police, according to long-time civil rights leader Rev. Markel Hutchins. Instead, these communities need to find ways to build a productive relationship with the police, turning “adversaries into allies,” he told The Epoch Times. “In a…


Growing Number of Americans Are Skipping College: Report

A growing number of Americans are opting to skip college in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report. Nationwide, transfer enrollment from two-year colleges to four-year institutions, or undergraduate college enrollment, dropped nearly 8 percent in the fall of 2022 compared to 2020, according to data from the educational nonprofit, National Student Clearinghouse (NSC). Those declines…


Did Generous Pandemic-Era Benefits Reduce Labor Force Participation?

Experts say and studies suggest that generous federal pandemic unemployment benefits reduced the U.S. labor participation rate, contributing to business difficulties in finding workers. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) noted a decline in the workforce participation rate through 2021. The BLS cited a study released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, “Has the Willingness to Work…


LIVE NOW: Is the White House Backing Efforts to Topple Foreign Leaders?

Demonstrations in Israel are designed to bring down the government, and the Biden administration is behind the scenes, funding the protestors. Israel is a U.S. ally, but the White House wants a different man in charge. So the Biden team is deploying the same tools and tactics it used to target its domestic opposition.   …


Is the White House Backing Efforts to Topple Foreign Leaders?

Demonstrations in Israel are designed to bring down the government, and the Biden administration is behind the scenes, funding the protestors. Israel is a U.S. ally, but the White House wants a different man in charge. So the Biden team is deploying the same tools and tactics it used to target its domestic opposition.   …


LIVE 11 AM ET: Is the White House Backing Efforts to Topple Foreign Leaders, Too?

Demonstrations in Israel are designed to bring down the government, and the Biden administration is behind the scenes, funding the protestors. Israel is a U.S. ally, but the White House wants a different man in charge. So the Biden team is deploying the same tools and tactics it used to target its domestic opposition.   …