All these things are consequences of the steady, hysterical, and often inaccurate declaration of an education crisis, which is reported uncritically by a news media addicted to crisis.
With the government's declaration of an Obesity Crisis, the food and pharmaceutical industries are revelling in commercial opportunities that await them to scoop up the problem with pills and specialised foods.
The task force's 105-point plan was premised on the declaration of an "energy crisis," which, to the extent it ever existed, has now passed as energy prices have fallen sharply since the spring of 2001.
Ocasio-Cortez asked about "whether the declaration of a public health crisis regarding opioids should have triggered a transfer of money from other agencies, a la Trump's maneuvers to build a wall," Glenn writes.
In her questioning, Ocasio-Cortez focused especially on the Public Health Emergency Fund — according to the Government Accountability Office, the fund has just $57,000 in it — and whether the declaration of a public health crisis regarding opioids should have triggered a transfer of money from other agencies, a la Trump's maneuvers to build a wall.
But after significant increases in homelessness, city leaders are once again considering tents, shelters, parking lots, and sanctioned encampments as solutions to homelessness– for example, San Diego's new homeless tents, or a declaration of a homeless shelter crisis by Los Angeles.
So far, their argument has been drowned out amidst grave declarations of a financial crisis at the agency.
Fiat, Italy's largest private employer, said in a statement that it would ask the government for a "declaration of corporate crisis" at Fiat Auto, which would enable workers who are laid off to receive 80percentt of their salary for more than a year from the state welfare fund.
The declaration of a national emergency over an alleged immigration crisis on our southern border has renewed the debate.
