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☆ Biden Should Campaign on Making Americans Live Longer Again - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Ashwin Vasan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The U.S. government’s strategic response to attack this cruel disease abroad was PEPFAR, an American initiative that has saved more than 25 million lives and shaped my understanding of what muscular public health policy could accomplish. Today, as New York City’s health commissioner and a practicing doctor, I see a desperate need for similar focus and ambition here in the United States. Because of chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease — along with drug overdoses, suicide, violence — the United States has not. When developing countries needed H.I.V. When the world needed a Covid-19 vaccine, we combined government-funded research with private initiative and an enormous distribution campaign.

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☆ Why doesn’t the US have more passenger trains?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-25 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Today, the United States’ passenger rail system is an echo of its former self, with swathes of the network unused or surrendered to freight. In 1970, President Richard Nixon signed the Rail Passenger Service Act, which removed the requirement that private rail companies provide passenger service. Mike Segar/ReutersBut many American towns and cities have lost access to passenger trains. Can passenger trains make a comeback? A passenger rides an Amtrak train passing near the Pacific Ocean on November 9, 2021 near Oceanside, California.

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☆ Donald Trump proposes 10 new 'Freedom Cities' featuring futuristic flying cars in a new campaign video
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump called for a "quantum leap" in the American standard of living on Friday. He laid out campaign proposals for new 'freedom cities' and investment in flying cars. Trump said the US had "lost its boldness," but under his leadership, it would be "back in a very big way." The four-minute video was light on details of how the visionary plan would come to fruition, and Trump campaign advisers conceded the new set of plans was unusual, according to reporting by Politico. They added, however, that Trump was not the first American president to make grand propositions — highlighting Abraham Lincoln's campaign for the transcontinental railroad and Teddy Roosevelt's national park service.

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