Wellness & Well-being Highlights June 16th
Wellness & Well-being Highlights
for the
Week of June 16, 2025
This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog looks at how one Dad’s recovery helped others chart new paths—to a rise in boys’ teen suicides resulting from sextortion schemes—to how a handful of female college athletes are fighting for fair compensation.
This week it would be difficult to avoid the proverbial elephant in the room: Yesterday’s parade in DC.
Like it or not, a 250th anniversary of nearly anything, in most cases, is worth celebrating.[1] The fact that this date coincides with Trump’s 79th birthday falls to his favor. Which, in a sense, makes this spectacle all the more concerning. Especially when one considers a price tag of >$40m…in a time where cutting govt expenses heads the DC agenda on most any other day in the past 3 months. Not to mention, the fact that there is currently pushback from Republicans regarding the mounting of a plaque that acknowledges the US Capitol Police Officers who served so bravely on Jan 6, 2021.[2]
As a counter-measure, many cities held “No Kings” gatherings across the US during the aforementioned parade on Jun 14, 2025. Be they cowards, kings, traitors, or patriots, it does not take a political scientist to see that the USA is approaching a tipping point. How does a just society square holding a multi-million-dollar parade, on one hand, while cutting VA benefits, on the other hand?[3] It appears history does repeat itself if you consider the famous words (C. 1858) of the then candidate for US President, US Senator Abraham Lincoln: “A house divided against itself, cannot stand.” In other words, maybe it is time for less narcissism and more altruism.
Please check out the rest of this week’s blog: https://moworksinitiative.org/category/worker-wellness-news/
Sources: [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UWWSlJwnJM
[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/police-officers-lawsuit-installing-jan-6-plaque-at-u-s-capitol/
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