Monday, April 16, 2018

Economics and Corruption related links 041618



McConnell bill would legalize hemp as agricultural product


 

Inside IBM’s Purge of Thousands of Workers Who Have One Thing in Common: “Age discrimination is an open secret like sexual harassment was.”


 

Amazon tumbles on report Trump wants to go after company


 

The US will be borrowing $300 billion this week, largest amount since 2008 financial crisis


 

Americans are richer than they were in the 1970s: But by how much?


 

Republicans Promised to Cut the Deficit. It’s Only Getting Worse


 

Finland is the happiest country in the world, says UN report: Nordic nations take top four places in happiness rankings, with annual study also charting the decline of the US


 

Report: Defense Dept. Spent $140,000 at Trump Properties


 

Trump Opioids Plan to Include Good Ideas — Also, Executing Drug Dealers


 

The death penalty for drug dealers is a terrible idea. It’s also part of the White House’s new opioid strategy.  A plan to reduce opioid deaths by killing more people.


 

Dr. Jonathan I. Groner Sentencing even one drug dealer to death is a pointless, expensive and cruel distraction from the opioid crisis.  There is no evidence that expanding the application of the death penalty will prevent a single opioid-related death.


 

Death Penalty for Opioid Dealers?


 

Trump’s Plan To Execute Drug Dealers Is Bluster Masquerading As A Solution: A good plan is undermined by a stunt.


 

Exercise keeps your body looking young, study finds: Cyclists had muscles and immune systems that looked 30 years younger


 

Being Sleepy During the Day Could Be a Warning Sign of Alzheimer’s


 

The Republican Party Must Answer for What It Did to Kansas and Louisiana


 

Economists agree: Trump, not Obama, gets credit for economy


 

Stocks finish quarter strong, but Dow snaps longest win streak in 20 years


 

Teaching Class Solidarity: A growing movement is finding creative ways to educate teens about economic justice.


 

The West Virginia Teachers Strike Shows That Winning Big Requires Creating a Crisis: The strikers won all five of their demands by shutting down every public school in the state.


 

This Supreme Court Case Could Make Corporate Giants Even More Powerful: A decision in Ohio v. American Express could undermine our ability to curtail monopoly power.


 

Human Rights Are Not Enough: We must also embrace the fight against economic inequality.


 

The Factory in the Family: The radical vision of Wages for Housework.


 

Tech Moguls Driving Mass Layoffs Propose Universal Basic Income: Should Progressives cheer talk of UBI in the upper echelons of thought leadership?


 

Half a Cheer for Trump


 

We're Told the Dow Jones Average...


 

Can cannabis in California be kept cottage?


 

Americans aren’t bamboozled: GOP tax law is a flop


 

Just How Unequal Are America’s Major Corporations?  Pay scales at major US businesses are way out of whack — and that’s just at the ones we know about.


 

Trump’s Trade War Is An Incompetent Response To A Real Problem


 

U.S. Aluminum and Steel Workers are an Endangered Species


 

Employer-Side Payroll Taxes: Cuomo Goes to War Against Republican Tax Plan


 

The West Virginia Teacher Strike Was Rare, Militant And Victorious: Any state that’s been telling teachers to tighten their belts for years has been put on notice.


 

The Liberal Establishment Suddenly Sounds Very Ambitious On Health Care: A new plan signals revived interest in public options and even Medicare-for-all.


 

The Wealthy, the Poor, the Vulnerable


 

Immiseration: Karl Marx Meets Donald Trump


 

Enablers of Financial Catastrophe: A Retrospective Warning


 

The Squalor of the So-Called Informal Sector


 

Cheap Drivers


 

Is It Okay to Watch Football?  On the morality of enjoying a ceaselessly brutal sport that is 70 percent black but has no black ownership.


 

Striking West Virginia Teachers Revive a Proud Labor Heritage


 

A New Lesson Plan in West Virginia


 

Kentucky Lawmakers Limit Black Lung Claims Reviews Despite Epidemic


 

Teachers are striking all over. What is going on?


 

President Trump: Replace The Dollar With Gold As The Global Currency To Make America Great Again


 

Is Washington Ready for Another Betsy DeVos?  Republican Debbie Lesko is Arizona’s crusader for conservative “school choice”—and, unless Democrats can stop her in April's special election, she’s about to go national.


 

Older Americans slapped with 'age tax' in GOP health-care bill: AARP


 

10 Companies Making Huge Stock Buybacks in 2018


 

Trump signs bill that kills Obama-era rule targeting wage theft, unsafe working conditions


 

Trump orders officials to look at $100 billion in new Chinese tariffs


 

Interview: Reviving the Poor People's Campaign


 

It's Our Job to Finish Dr. Martin Luther King's Economic Justice Work [Opinion]: On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner reflects on the critical income inequality work he supported and our urgent need to finish it.


 

Does Medicare for All Advance Socialist Politics?


 

Women’s Double Healthcare Jeopardy


 

Fighting Unequal Access


 

DSA Across the USA


 

Labor’s Stake in Medicare for All


 

Devil in the Details: Disabilities and M4A


 

Hospital Closings Threaten Survival of Rural Areas


 

Trump Goes Off The Wall In Interview, Brags That His Trade War Will Screw America (VIDEO)


 

Under Trump's watch, national debt tops $21 trillion for first time ever


 

So much for Trump's trade war?


 

Trump is winning the trade war — for now: Despite protests about his tactics, countries from Germany to South Korea are flinching in the face of Trump’s threats.


 

Trump’s Theater of Trade: The president announces tough tariffs on steel. The media goes crazy. The president wrings meaningless concessions out of U.S. partners and then lauds his own deal-making prowess. And scene.


 

First Solar, Then Steel...Now Soy? China's Move To Buy Brazilian Soybeans Over U.S. Could Worsen Trade Tensions


 

A Domestic Budget to Make Barack Obama Proud: The Republican Congress didn’t just ignore Trump’s proposals: The $1.3 trillion spending bill actually fulfilled—or even exceeded—many of the funding requests of his Democratic predecessor.


 

Trump and the Degenerate GOP Spenders: The President has no excuse for not holding the line.


 

The omnibus spending bill was hardly a 'betrayal' of Trump


 

The Future of America’s Economy Looks a Lot Like Elkhart, Indiana: The capital of RV manufacturing, which once had the worst unemployment rate in the U.S., is now facing labor shortages and rising home prices and wages


 

Shortage of Skilled Workers Creating A Crisis in Construction Industry


 

U.S. Labor Market Tightens, Demand For Skilled Workers Continues: Manufacturing companies report the biggest growth in hiring plans, up +7% from Q2 2017, according to the latest ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey.


 

A compound in beets could slow Alzheimer's effects


 

401(k)s and guns: Does 'ethical' investing make financial sense?


 

Opinion: All fired up over guns? A better way to invest for the socially conscious


 

Why Socially Responsible Investing Is Not for Me: Wanting to put your money in firms that follow certain ideals is laudable, sure. But it's not as straightforward as it used to be.


 

Farmers Who Voted For Trump Now Worry Trade War Could Crush Them


 

The Disappearing Doctor: How Mega-Mergers Are Changing the Business of Medical Care.  Big corporations — giant retailers and health insurance companies — are teaming up to become your doctor.


 

To Curb Rising Health Insurance Costs, Some States Try 'Reinsurance Pools'


 

Why does the U.S. spend so much more on healthcare? It's the prices


 

Massachusetts Wants To Drive Down Medicaid Drug Costs: Why Is The Administration So Nervous?


 

A pharmaceutical executive will lead the Trump administration’s effort to lower drug prices: Daniel Best previously worked for CVS and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.


 

John Oliver takes aim at anti-abortion activists 'controlling women's behavior': The comic discussed crisis pregnancy centers, which aim to prevent women from terminating pregnancies using ‘predatory’ tactics


 

How a Scrappy Campus Union Saved Tennessee From Privatization: The Southern victory could be a blueprint for defending the public sector.


 

Working Night and Day, for 1,000 Years: A new book tells the hidden history of work—on and off the job.


 

Surgeon General Urges More Americans To Carry Opioid Antidote


 

Traumatic Brain Injuries Are Tied to Dementia


 

Meet Trump’s New, Homophobic Public Health Quack: The Centers for Disease Control will soon be run by a military doctor with a long history of pushing discriminatory AIDS policies.


 

Drug testing plan considered for some food stamp recipients


 

Comey sat down with Stephanopoulos for 5-hour interview


 

Ex-Speaker John Boehner Joins Marijuana Firm’s Advisory Board


 

Forgetting the Forgotten: 101 Ways Donald Trump Has Betrayed his Populist Agenda


 

Trump’s Parade of Falsehoods: Healthcare Edition


 

Exposing Trump’s Anti-Consumer Arsonist


 

Public Citizen News March/April 2018


 

New Trump Administration Trade Report Sticks to the Status Quo


 

DSA Medicare for All Campaign Spring Update


 

Why does the U.S. grading system seem broken?


 

Social Security’s Future in English


 

Cops claim mice ate half a ton of missing marijuana


 

Notre Dame Flip-Flops; Will Deny Women Access To Some Birth Control


 

AU State Activists Gather For Webinar On Vouchers


 

My Wife Resents Cooking Family Dinner, but I Work Longer Hours. What’s Fair?  And a professor asks about helping younger, indebted colleagues.


 

No Wonder Teachers Are Saying Enough Is Enough: Public-school teachers around the country have been asked to do more with less.

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