Category: Beyond Red vs. Blue: Key Issues at a Glance

• The Skilled Trades Comeback: Why Electricians Out-Earn Many College Grads

  

  For fifty years, American families heard the same advice: go to college, and the rest will take care of itself. The data tells a different story now. Electricians out-earn many recent grads — with no debt and a five-year head start. I should know: I have five college degrees, I work at a family-owned electrical…

  Tobi McMillan

  June 12, 2026

  Beyond Red vs. Blue: Key Issues at a Glance, Finance, THE PERSONAL IS STILL POLITICAL AND POLICY IS THE PROOF

• The Feminization of Poverty: Structural Traps, Policy Failures, and the Price Women Pay

  

  Structural traps, policy failures, and the price women pay In the wealthiest nation in recorded history, nearly 20 million women and girls live below the federal poverty line. That is not a rounding error. It is a structural feature — one built into the architecture of American economic life and reinforced, often unintentionally, by the…

  Tobi McMillan

  June 11, 2026

  Beyond Red vs. Blue: Key Issues at a Glance, Finance, Systemic, THE PERSONAL IS STILL POLITICAL AND POLICY IS THE PROOF, Women’s Rights