What’s an Eatsa? Earlier this month the DC branch of the fast-casual restaurant, Eatsa officially closed its doors. Eatsa, founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco has a unique business model that limits human interaction and separates the consumer from the producers of the product, which in this case happens to be salads. Often … Continue reading
Health and nutrition have become important topics in recent decades, with physical inactivity and overeating rising sharply. A troubling 2017 report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that 36.5% of U.S. adults suffer from obesity, driving up medical costs by $147 billion. To address this health crisis, attention should be focused on … Continue reading
It is past peak hurricane season, and the southern continental United States has been pummeled by massive storms this year. Many have been quick to demonize fossil fuels, blaming them as the root cause of these powerful storms. However, regardless of one’s opinion on the major cause of climate change, humans need fossil fuels now … Continue reading
Rates of opioid addiction in the United States have continued to increase leading to the destruction of families, a decline in labor participation, and rising healthcare costs. Out of all the drug overdose deaths in 2015, 63.1% involved an opioid. This problem has been appropriately called an epidemic and its consequences and widespread effect have … Continue reading
The Paris Agreement serves as the bridge between existing policies and the low-carbon development economy needed to sustain our future. Although the agreement is non-binding, 160 Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have ratified the agreement, and hope to transition into the low-carbon pathway needed to keep warming below 2oC (3.6o … Continue reading
How a Holistic Approach to Pain Management can Solve the Nation’s Opioid Epidemic In 2017 drug overdoses became the leading cause of death for Americans less than 50 years old (Reynolds, 2017). Fueling this statistic is the opioid epidemic, which is responsible for 63% of all drug overdoses in the … Continue reading
The United States is currently the most attractive destination for international students, hosting over a million students from around the world in colleges and universities across the country. While some foreign students are awarded merit-based scholarships and fellowships to pursue an education in the United States, nearly two-thirds of international students rely on personal finances … Continue reading
This might very well be the busiest year of the Atlantic hurricane season, and with two months left the Americas shudder at the thought of what next, who’s next, and when. Three major hurricanes—Harvey, Irma, and most recently Maria—all made landfall roughly one week apart, and caused widespread devastation across several U.S. cities and total … Continue reading
On September 13th the House subcommittee on Worker Protection and the subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions held a congressional joint hearing to consider the Save Local Business Act. The proposed bill seeks to define joint employers as those who have “actual, direct, and immediate control” over employees and to roll back the Obama … Continue reading
Rural America is struggling. As blue-collar jobs move overseas and people flock to major cities in an increasingly knowledge-based economy, rural America is being left behind in the next wave of economic growth. President Donald Trump broke the Democratic “blue wall” in the 2016 presidential election by appealing to rural voters, running on a platform … Continue reading
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