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@AlecMacGillis
Aug 15, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Now happening in states with lots of older folks and few immigrants: they are literally running out of people to care for the elderly. Bracing @JStein_WaPo piece: beta.washingtonpost.com/business/econo…
"Last year, Maine crossed a crucial aging milestone: A fifth of its population is older than 65, which meets World Bank definition of 'super-aged.' By 2026, Maine will be joined by more than 15 states, including VT, NH, MT, DE, WV, WI & PA, and more than a dozen more by 2030."
"Janet Flaherty got an alarming call last October from the agency tasked with coordinating in-home care for her 82-year-old mother. It could no longer send her mom’s home caretaker. It knew of no other aides who could care for her mother, either."
"Maine’s largest long-term-care provider, North Country Associates, has been forced to temporarily close admissions in each of its 26 nursing homes because of staffing shortages, sometimes for as long as several months, in an unprecedented change from a few years ago."

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"As we emerge from our most restrictive covid precautions, the tables have turned: I find myself in a world in which many have become more introverted. And I hate it." Great column by @rebeccamakkai: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…
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"I reconnected with a large group of friends at an outdoor restaurant...At the end of dinner, [two] announced that although they’d had a wonderful time, they wouldn’t make it to another planned gathering three weeks later; they needed at least a month to recover.

A month?"
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May 13, 2023
This is a v sharp Janan Ganesh column noting how similar Britain and France have come to be: same size, same hyper-dominant capital region, same post-imperial wistfulness. Some quotes follow.
ft.com/content/beff18…
"Each nation has a monstrously dominant capital. Politics, media, finance and culture are concentrated in one city. No European nation of comparable size--not Spain, not Italy, not Germany--does that. Nor does the US, Australia or Canada..."
"...The result is two similarly distorted countries. Lots of democracies have angry hinterlands but in few is the populist rage so focused against one place...."
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Mar 29, 2023
Hospitals are closing at disprortionately high rates in Mississippi and the other nine red states that have refused to accept Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, even though the fed gov't picks up 90 pct of the cost and has further sweetened the pot recently.
nytimes.com/2023/03/28/us/…
"Expanding Medicaid would uncork $1.35 billion a year in federal funds to [Mississippi] hospitals and health care providers...And it would guarantee coverage to 100,000 uninsured adults making less than $20,120 in a state whose death rates are at or near the nation’s highest..."
Of the "close to two million other [uninsured] Americans who live in the states that have not expanded Medicaid, three in five are adults of color, according to a 2021 study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities...In Mississippi, more than half are Black."
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Mar 16, 2023
Wow. Boeing is arguing that it is not liable for victim suffering claims in Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash because "victims died painlessly because the airplane crashed into the ground so fast that their brains didn’t have time to process pain signals."
wsj.com/articles/boein…
For background, my 2019 piece for @propublica and @NewYorker: propublica.org/article/i-will…
And the context from today's article: Image
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Mar 12, 2023
Kids "are learning to hate the subject [of English] well before college. Both in terms of what kids are assigned and how they are instructed to read it, English class in middle and high school is often a misery."
nytimes.com/2023/03/09/opi…
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Mar 4, 2023
Stunning: "More than one-third of all stores that opened in the United States in 2021 and 2022 were dollar stores. Dollar General alone opened 2,060 locations during those years, far more than any other retailer."
nytimes.com/2023/03/01/bus…
But the bipartisan backlash has arrived: "Since 2019, at least 75 communities have voted down proposed dollar stores, while roughly 50 have enacted moratoriums or other broad limits on dollar store development, according to a new report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance."
"92 percent of Dollar General workers earn less than $15 an hour, lower than many other companies surveyed, including Burger King, Walmart and Dunkin’. About 20 percent of Dollar General workers earn less than $10 an hour."
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