"The Chinese real estate market is looking grim as major companies have started to fall. Most dollar bonds sold by Chinese companies are trading below 10 cents on the dollar. It’s only looking worse as some companies haven’t completed a deal in more than 18 months." -- Elias Yuasa, SEVENTH GRADE
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"For years now, CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid have been selling addictive pain medications such as OxyContin, Oxycodone, and other opioid prescriptions with the same ease as toothpaste and snacks." -- cece burger, sixth grade "In the 1970s we marched in the streets for equal pay and equal rights. Women’s careers were ruined for asking to be paid what they deserved, and they hoped that soon, this would be a distant memory. Today, women, nonbinary, and transgender people are still paid less than cis men." "Novo Nordisk is a drug company in Denmark and has been revolutionary when it comes to weight loss. The firm sells two drugs, Ozemic and Wegovy. Ozemic was originally made to treat diabetes but now people have started using the drug as a diet pill." -- Elias Wyasa, 7th grade "On Friday, September 1st, the F.O.R.C.E. (Frequencies of Real Creative Energy) tour performed at the Chase Center in San Francisco. With a star-packed lineup including Rakim, Doug E Fresh and Slick Rick, Salt-N-Pepa, Ice T, Black Thought, LL Cool J, and a surprise appearance by E-40, the F.O.R.C.E. tour was an epic celebration of the 50th anniversary of hip hop." -- Isaiah Kahn, 8th grade "Recently news of Prigozhin dying have broken out, but is this the first time this has happened throughout Russia's history?" - Domino Howlett-cragg, 6th grade "On May 2nd, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) declared a strike. Productions stopped, as without writers, there was no one to update scripts and stories. On July 14th, SAG-AFTRA members also began to strike." --Mackenzie Luna, "Chronicling the Life of Former President JFK's Nephew, and RFK Jr's 2024 focuses on a range of things from protecting the ENVIRONMENT to getting rid of vaccine mandates." --Aphrodite Avidon, Seventh Grade "Everyone has heard about the deadly fires that swept through the historic town of Lahaina, Maui recently. Everyone has heard about people who didn’t make it through the fires. Something that doesn't make the headlines is what happened to all the animals." -- Zara Quiter, seventh grade |