You know the price will go back up when they want it to.

To quote Wikipedia: "The United States, Papua New Guinea, and a few island countries in the Pacific Ocean are the only countries in the United Nations that do not require employers to provide paid time off for new parents."

This man is should qualify for the avengers.

It's not in the budget. The football/ sports team comes first after all.

The work done on the robotic bees will be applicable to all sorts of other areas too. It is not wasted research.

Or it depends if she wanted to walk to show an example to grandkids or if she were forced to walk without any alternatives. Many of these headlines are clearly horrific but this would need the article text to judge

Sometimes I wish I was so disgustingly filthy rich just to be able to help kids like this little girl.

Let’s add the context. The woman normally lives in Michigan. She was staying with her son in Illinois and then when Covid started she stayed there. She requested an absentee ballot, but she wanted to do early voting so she didn’t wait for it to come. She asked her son to drive her to Detroit to vote. Gerrymandering and voter suppression happen but this story is not the result of it.

What's the point of voting if it's just picking the lesser or two evils

The whole concept of sick days as something that is counted and could be donated is mindbogglin

I effing hate your ways, usa

In what kind of country does a 89 year old man still needs to deliver pizza to be able to make a living?

Now THAT is heartbreaking.

'...so his friend can afford to eat without going into debt.' No. He paid the debt that was already made. If they eat again, they will go into debt again. He is a hero but to solve the problem is well over his power.

This is f*****g ludicrous.

Dystopian novel writers are gonna get a kick out of this

Five paid days off are very generous, of course, seeing most european countries mandate between 20 and 30 of those by law...

It's sad that she'd be in this condition, but in a way, it was probably her decision, and it's sweet that she cares for the students enough to do this.

Not sure this has anything to do with his wealth....I have absolutely no clue what pizza rolls cost. I'm assuming Bill Gates doesn't eat pizza rolls, so he'd have no reason to know the price.

While there are some "earn" that amount on his paycheck every minute doing absolutely nothing.

At least he did not get a ticking for 'destroying public property'.

This was on the news in France and everybody finds this so sad....

A civilized country would make sure no child has such a ridiculous thing such as "lunch debt" - feed them all! At no cost to them or their families! But then, you don't give a damn whether they have to defend against a shooter, so why the f**k would you care if they can eat or not, eh? I apologize for the rant, I am so disgusted with my country lately.

You know the government is bad when even the criminals are the good guys

I'm sure there is someone, somewhere moaning that if the kid worked harder, he could have paid for his own wheelchair /s (ish)

Next up, Random Mathguy wins $$$ for his Physics 101 class material. Coming up next, teenagers getting injured doing random stunts.

This is depressing. Poor guy.

Or there were no public transportation to use.. owning a car and paying all related costs should not be the 1st priority for a single parent even if the wages would be better.

An American friend of mine lost her job, and I blithely said hey why not go back to university and get an advanced degree like I did when I was looking to switch careers for something that paid better? She said not possible because she can't afford the student loans, and I said oh but you just pay those off once you can afford it, which is also what I did. She told me no, here you have to pay it off immediately. I, the naive Australian, couldn't think of anything to say other than "WHAT??"

This is not only limited to the military. The US are probably the only country that permanently uses debt as a means of control. Medical debt, student loan debt, lunch debt... To quote Hamlet: "it may be madness, but there's method in it..."

This one might actually not really belong on this list, as the reasons are different. Japan has a demographic problem with an aged population. More than a quarter of the population is over 65, over 15% are older than 75. There also is the problem of a different work ethic (people won't stop working until they absolutely become unable to, regardless of their financial situation), and they have been battling labour shortages for decades. Their restrictive stance on immigration has worsened the problem. Working longer is an unpleasant but unavoidable necessity in this case.

Shocker. Who´d have thought?

Honestly.. having trouble at some time with organizing child care can happen everywhere. Free childcare services does not guarantee that this service is available at any given moment for everyone, especially not since 2019.

Let. The . Children. Get . Education. This is not classics 101

That was very sweet of the nurse.

So child labour is legal if it's cute and by white kids ( I say this because a non white kid would be in handcuffs)

Fighting in the same old war so that old men can cash in on the deaths of the young

'Ocassionally crying at work is normal'. WTF it's not!

Work is means to an end.