🇺🇸 25% of Americans are “functionally unemployed," per Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity.
And 20% of job seekers have been looking for work for 10 to 12 months or longer.
📝 Functionally unemployed, per Ludwig Institute, includes those without full-time jobs (35+ hrs/week) who want them, the jobless, or earning under $25k/year pre-tax. Their True Rate of Unemployment is 24.3% as of May 2025, vs official 4.2%.
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In 1983, America's biggest daytime talk show did something that's never happened since.
It spent an hour on a live debate on the DPT shot and vaccine mandates. Injured kids were in the studio, and the host asked what no host would dare ask today:
"Why does it have to be a law? Should we have the freedom to decide?"
🇺🇸 A Red Baron delivery worker went viral after snapping at a social media prankster who pretended to steal $10 from his phone via Apple Pay while he was working.
The father of four broke down over his exhausting schedule and financial struggles, prompting the internet to rally behind him. A GoFundMe has since raised more than $500,000, while Red Baron publicly backed the employee and confirmed his job is safe.
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New York fined private Amish schools $118,000 for refusing vaccine mandates.
Their lawyer says only the Supreme Court can save them now.