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A Nation of Immigrant Junk Food Junkies
By: Daniel Nardini According to a study published in the Journal of Nutrition, many Mexican immigrants and their U.S.-born children eventually adopt American-style junk food eating habits. The study surveyed… Read more
When the Dollars was as Good as Gold
By: Daniel Nardini Forty years ago in 1971, then U.S. President Richard Nixon took the United States out of the Bretton Woods Agreements. Under these agreements all countries that traded… Read more
September 11th Ten Years Later: A Personal View
By: Daniel Nardini There have been documentaries about where people were on September 11, 2001, during the Al Qaeda attacks. In my case I was at a train station waiting… Read more
The Throw Away Workers
By: Daniel Nardini Having been on the unemployment rolls myself, I know how the U.S. Labor Bureau can and does manipulate the unemployment statistics. They report the unemployment by those… Read more
Make Everyday A Labor Day
By: Daniel Nardini As we pass this year’s Labor Day, the employment numbers do not make it look like much of a holiday to celebrate. Job growth in August was… Read more
The Lost American Economic Decade
By: Daniel Nardini One has to wonder how the United States, which had almost completely eliminated its national debt in 2000, and was registering monetary surpluses, could suddenly become the… Read more
Puerto Rican Children at Risk
By: Daniel Nardini According to a report put out on its 2011 KIDSCOUNT databook by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, children in Puerto Rico are especially at-risk from a number… Read more
The Fight for Malaysia’s Soul
By: Daniel Nardini Most Malay women, who are Muslim, typically wear the hijab or headscarf. There is no law in Malaysia that requires women to wear the hijab. Nevertheless most… Read more
The Mennonites and the Drug Cartels
By: Daniel Nardini The drug war is doing more than killing tens of thousands of people and destroying the whole fabric of Mexican society. It is starting to create refugees… Read more
The Great New York Tragedy Before 9/11
By: Daniel Nardini This year marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most tragic events that have altered not only New York City but the United States. I am… Read more »