Chart of the Day: Net New Jobs in April
The American economy gained 164,000 jobs last month. We need 90,000 new jobs just to keep up with population growth, which means that net job growth clocked in at a so-so 74,000 jobs. The headline unemployment rate dropped to 3.9 percent, but this was entirely due to people dropping out of the labor force. The…
“I Was Directed to Market OxyContin”: A Purdue Pharma Rep Tells How He Was Paid to Push Opioids
Pureradiancephoto/Getty When Sean Thatcher was a sales rep at Purdue Pharma, which makes OxyContin, doctors he visited often complained that their patients were developing tolerance to the opioid painkiller. Thatcher, who worked for the company between 2009 and 2015 in Montana, was instructed to tell the prescribers to increase the dose, and to clarify that…
Trump Administration Could Send 57,000 Hondurans to One of the World’s Most Dangerous Places
Then-Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, left, greets Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández in March 2017 in Washington, DC. Hernández was reelected in November in what was widely considered a fraudulent election.Barry Bahler/ZUMA Days after Hondurans arrived at the US-Mexico border as part of a migrant caravan that incurred President Donald Trump’s wrath, the Trump…
Ford Killed Off Its Sedans. Scott Pruitt Can Take the Credit.
This is the Ford Mustang, the only sedan that will be left in Ford’s product line by 2020. Its fuel economy is an SUV-like 18-25 mpg.Ford Motor Company Last week Ford announced that they were discontinuing production of nearly all their sedans. From now on, it would just be trucks and SUVs. The proximate cause…
Scientists Were Already Concerned About Kids Playing Tackle Football. It’s Worse Than They Thought.
Taylor Jones/The Palm Beach Post/ZUMApress.com This week, Boston University researchers published a study that is sure to fire up parents worried about letting their kids play football: The earlier people played tackle football, researchers concluded, the sooner they could experience behavioral and emotional issues later in life. The study, published in the Annals of Neurology on Monday, showed that…
Trump’s Schedule Ends at Lunchtime Today
Last night, Rudy Giuliani implied not just that President Trump doesn’t have to talk to Robert Mueller if he doesn’t want to, but that he’s far too busy to talk to Mueller. He’s got important stuff he’s working on! Korea! Iran! Syria! Here’s is Trump’s schedule today: This will be followed by a weekend of…