Pumping the unemployed with weight-loss drugs echoes Victorian attitudes to the poor | Kenan Malik

IIn early 2023, Lars Fluagaard-Jorgensen, chief executive of Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, and Pinder Sahota, vice president of the company's UK subsidiary, met in Whitehall with then-Health Secretary Steve Barclay, head of the UK He met with Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty and others in Whitehall. Health authorities and financial authorities. They discussed […]
More Than Half of Immigrants in U.S. Are Unemployed

More than half of the foreign-born immigrant population in the United States under President Joe Biden is unemployed, according to a recent report. The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) report Only 46% of immigrants who arrived in the U.S. in 2022 and beyond were employed as of early 2024, according to Monday’s announcement. CIS researchers […]