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Hope Yen and Christopher Rugaber Associated Press Published 4:03 p.m. UTC Aug 13, 2018 Washington – President Donald Trump is distorting the truth on U.S. economic growth and jobs, pointing to record-breaking figures that don’t exist and not telling the full story on black unemployment. He cites the highest-ever gross domestic product for the U.S. that’s not there and predicts a spectacular 5 percent annual growth rate in the current quarter that hardly any economist sees. On black joblessness, he boasts of a “new” record low, but the numbers in fact have recently ticked upward, with greater declines seen during the Obama administration. The statements marked a week of fiction in which Trump also made erroneous claims about the California wildfires and the Russia investigation and falsely declared that his tariffs on foreign goods will help erase $21 trillion in national debt. Meanwhile, Sen. Bernie Sanders skimmed over the facts in asserting that … [Read more...] about Trump’s economic fiction: ‘record’ GDP, jobs

Georgea Kovanis Detroit Free Press Published 1:19 p.m. UTC Aug 10, 2018 Previous rehabs hadn’t worked, so this spring, intent once again, on getting off heroin, the 21-year-old Wyandotte woman who was introduced to drugs by her ex-boyfriend, decided to try something different. She decided to seek help from a medication-assisted treatment program — the kind where a doctor replaces heroin or opioid painkillers with buprenorphine, a medication that is designed to help addicts get clean by curbing their cravings and easing withdrawal.  Except when the woman called for an appointment, she couldn't get one. The doctor's office had a waiting list and, she said, told her it could be weeks, even months before she might get a turn — a wait that could prove deadly for a relapse-prone addict hooked on an especially dangerous drug. In the midst of the nation's opioid epidemic, delays in getting … [Read more...] about This drug can help kick addiction, but it’s hard to find