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Fake News: Why Social Security Isn't Going Broke 18,125 views | Jun 8, 2018, 9:34 am Fake News: Why Social Security Isn't Going Broke John F. Wasik Contributor Personal Finance I am an author, speaker and journalist specializing in investor and consumer protection. One of the ugliest tropes in American politics is to say “Social Security is going broke.” Although there are structural funding problems with the system, to say that the nation’s most successful annuity program is going bust is a lie. It can be fixed and only politics blocks a reasonable remedy. But that didn’t stop dozens of Fox News outlets from proclaiming otherwise. They got their facts wrong and wanted to scare people without providing context. Fox anchors read this statement: “The Social Security Board of Trustees said [in] its 2017 annual report that 2022 will make the first time in more than 40 years that Social Security pays ...

Scenes From an American Tragedy: The Texas Border Crisis,   Some parents even contemplated suicide. Doctors Have a Name for Separating Kids from Their Parents at the Border: It's A Form of Torture. Award-winning illustrator M. Crabapple travels to Texas to document families emerging from the trauma and turmoil of crossing the border  More than 2,300 children were separated from their parents through Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy before it was suspended on June 20th. In July, I spent five days with my sketchbook in the Rio Grande Valley, the epicenter of the border crisis, and found an immigration system returning to its status quo – which even without family-separation is one of daily cruelty and heartache. Children were no longer being ripped from their mothers and fathers; families were incarcerated together, sleeping on bare concrete in packed processing centers, nicknamed hieleras, or “iceboxes.” “They humiliate us,” a mother from Honduras told me at...

... Paraíso Perdido - Paradise Lost! Camp Fire (2018) Language Watch Edit Not to be confused with Campfire . The Camp Fire was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history [8] and the most expensive natural disaster in the world in 2018 in terms of insured losses. [9] [10] Camp Fire The Camp Fire as seen from the Landsat 8 satellite on November 8, 2018 Location Butte County , California Coordinates 39°48′37″N 121°26′14″W Statistics Cost $16.5 billion [1] [2] [3] [4] Date(s) November 8, 2018; contained November 25, 2018 Burned area 153,336 acres (62,053 ha) Cause Electrical transmission fire; by PG&E [5] Buildings destroyed 18,804 Fatalities 85 civilians [6] Non-fatal injuries 12 civilians and 5 firefighters [7] Evacuated 52,000 Ma...