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Do prescription drug ads help or hurt consumers seeking relief?
Edit The Oklahoman 17 Apr 2016
For pharmaceutical companies, doctors and millions of American prescription patients, it was the face that launched a thousand ads — the beginning of a $4.8 billion advertising business that has since expanded to about 80 direct-to-consumer (DTC) prescription ads an hour, according to Nielsen ... The number of white Americans on a single prescription increased from 41.1 percent in 1988 to 52.4 in 2012....
Poverty, Compounded
Edit The Atlantic 16 Apr 2016
And for white Americans who do experience one form of poverty, it’s pretty unlikely that they experience any others. For instance, if both a white and black American have low incomes, the white American is more likely to live in a better neighborhood, in better housing, and to have better access to superior education and healthcare....
Millions of White Americans Are Dealing With Economic Pain They Haven't Seen for Decades
Edit Alternet 15 Apr 2016
White Americans have not experienced double-digit unemployment for three generations, since the Great Depression ... But once the insecurity began to be shared a bit—even then not equitably, but more so than white Americans had been used to—the magnitude of the problem suddenly appeared more obvious ... White Americans on the whole had not experienced that ......
Slim Majority in U.S. See Good Local Job Market Conditions
Edit Gallup 15 Apr 2016
51% say now is a good time to find a job in their area Those employed full time for an employer are more positive White Americans less likely to rate local job market positively ... -- Americans are slightly more likely to say now is a good time (51%) rather than a bad time (46%) to find a good job in their local area ... Nonwhites More Positive Than Whites About Local Job Market ... Whites 47 50....
How politics played a major role in the signing of Jackie Robinson
Edit Huffington Post 15 Apr 2016
Their columns galvanized support among their readers, and their interviews with white major leaguers demonstrated that many players had no objections to playing with blacks. Black sportswriters, however, had little influence among white politicians and legislators ... But World War II forced many white Americans - especially those who served with black soldiers - to reconsider their views on discrimination....
Death rates, health problems, rise among middle-aged white Americans (Ohio State Medical Association)
Edit Public Technologies 14 Apr 2016
Middle-aged white Americans had higher rates of mortality and morbidity between 1999 and 2013 than other ethnic groups, according to report funded by the National Institute of Aging ... whites in the United States....
Full text: Chronology of Human Rights Violations of the United States in 2015
Edit China Daily 14 Apr 2016
The Atlantic magazine's website reported that according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, more than a quarter of the teenagers -- 15 years old and up -- who died of injuries in the United States were killed in gun-related incidents ... On the same day, the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) released a report on lynchings in the United States, which documented 3,959 racial terror lynchings of African Americans between 1877 and 1950....
Bernie and Hillary, stop the nastiness
Edit CNN 14 Apr 2016
Fifty years since the Civil Rights movement rocked American politics and Congress passed the Great Society, racial tensions remain front and center on the national agenda. For several years, Americans have been watching a barrage of videos where African Americans are subjected to brutal and deadly violence from police and white Americans ... But African Americans who have lived through these horrifying conditions need real answers....
Unite for Ted Cruz Now or He'll Come Back Stronger
Edit The Atlantic 14 Apr 2016
There are pragmatic conservatives, who are willing to compromise ideologically in order to win; purist conservatives, who want to make the GOP stand on principle; and populist conservatives, who want to turn the party into a vehicle for insulating white Americans from economic globalization and cultural and racial change....
A researcher explains how racial resentment drives opposition to gun control
Edit Vox 13 Apr 2016
Why do so many white Americans seem to love guns so much?. Whether it's higher levels of gun ownership or opposition to stricter gun laws, white Americans generally tend to be more pro-gun than not, especially in comparison to other racial and ethnic groups ... Alexandra Filindra, one of the authors of the study, said the results suggest that guns are seen as a symbolic way for white Americans to declare their racial identity....
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