In Destroying Social Security, GOP Has No Plans for
Elderly Americans
Exclusive: Google users in UK to
lose EU data protection - sources
The American dark money behind
Europe’s far right: From Britain to Hungary to Italy, the far right is on the
rise. openDemocracy investigations over the past year have revealed the vital
role of US Christian conservatives.
The absolutely massive numbers
of EU citizens who have applied to stay in London after Brexit: The vast
majority are planning on remaining here after all
The Decade That Put Capitalism
On Trial: How the 2008 financial crisis kicked off a new age of dissent
Why Many Uber Drivers Couldn’t
Afford To Stay Home During Australia’s Fires: Uber’s business model is built to
exploit workers. In 13 major U.S. markets, drivers are paid below minimum wage.
The Oreo Workers Trump Betrayed:
Trump used these workers to win the White House. Their union has fought a
losing battle against outsourcing ever since.
Culture War in the Workplace:
Inside the court battle over trans employment discrimination
Beyond the Growth Gospel
The World The Economist Made:
How a 170-year-old magazine has struggled to uphold liberal capitalism
Letters From the February 24,
2020, Issue: Competing theories… A serious misconception (web only)…
Why Doctors Are Fighting Their
Professional Organization Over Medicare for All: Calls for single-payer are
coming from outside the American Medical Association—and show that doctors are
not a single class of workers with a unified political view.
Coming Home: Hazel Carby’s
personal history of British identity.
Beware of Trump’s economic
claims: The president and the facts tell very different stories
Dow closes down 877 points for
1,900-point loss over two days: "The Coronavirus is very much under
control in the USA. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!"
President Donald Trump tweeted earlier.
Why Young Voters Are Embracing
Bernie Sanders And Democratic Socialism
A Billboard With a Simple Message: Erected downtown this
month and for DNC: 3% of U.S. military spending could end global starvation.
The Racial Wealth Gap: Addressing America's Most Pressing
Epidemic
PM: Brits abroad for 15+ years to get UK right to vote
UK to withdraw from European arrest warrant: Government
document reveals plans to ditch tool that allows for fast extradition of
criminals
British Pound Battered and Bruised as Government
Reiterates No Deal Threat
Philadelphia City Council helped corral opposition to the
country’s first supervised injection site
Constitution Health Plaza cancels plans for safe
injection site in South Philadelphia
Philip Rutnam resignation: his full statement. The senior
civil servant at the Home Office has resigned after a series of clashes with
the home secretary, Priti Patel
Stephen Colbert shoots down Donald Trump with fake viagra
advert: 'Do we all have to die because your penis is small?' 'I don’t know if he knows this, traditionally
buttons are kind of a lady part'
Let’s Be Blunt: Cannabis Research Isn’t Where It Should
Be
HUMANIST DILEMMA | Shall I Donate to the Most
Downtrodden—Or to What I Love?
Elevator Protest: The Wheels of Justice Grind Too Slowly
for These New Yorkers
Committee Advances Bipartisan Proposal to Secure Clear,
Strong Protections for Pregnant Workers
Fears for farmers and fishermen as Cummings ally says 'no
need' for agriculture
Post-Brexit talks: France warns UK against 'artificial
deadlines'
It's not just chlorinated chicken: five foods a US trade
deal could bring to the UK. In place of
stringent EU food regulations, the US is demanding a ‘science-based’ approach
with disturbing consequences
Paul Beckwith, Climate System Scientist
Let's talk about what lifts people out of poverty....
Let's talk about Bernie causing breadlines....
Sanders & Socialism: Debate Between Nobel Laureate
Paul Krugman & Socialist Economist Richard Wolff
The Army Built to Fight ‘Medicare for All’: The top
health industry lobbies have joined forces to take down socialized medicine —
or anything that looks like it. Will they succeed?
PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL PERSONALLY BENEFIT FROM THE FED RATE
CUT HE PUSHED
Millions being ignored by ‘morally and politically
bankrupt’ UK voting system, new report claims: ‘It’s time for proportional
representation and real democracy at Westminster,’ says analysis of December
election
Economic Update: When Stale Debates Distract
‘I can’t eat or sleep’: the woman threatened with
deportation after 50 years in Britain
Brexit blamed as pharmacists warn of shortage in
medicines for cancer patients: The government admitted supply issues but
insisted there was "no evidence" they were caused by Brexit - despite
warnings from pharmaceutical reps
Jeff Bezos would pay $9 billion a year in wealth taxes
under Bernie Sanders’ plan
Trump Doesn’t Hate Welfare When It Goes to Wealthy White
Farmers: The president’s farm aid lays bare the racial and class implications
of his disdain of government assistance.
Rural America Doesn’t Have to Starve to Death: A
predatory and extractive financial sector has hollowed out communities across
the US.
How Do the Rich Become Uber-Rich?
After a Half Century of Corporate Dominance Over the Food
Economy, Change Is Coming: Family farmers are fighting back against Big Ag to
put forth a complete overhaul of industrial agribusiness policies, supplanting
them with sensible, democratic approaches to serve the common good.
Food Servers: Their Times and Troubles
A Cruel Attack on the Disabled: You might have missed it
amid the impeachment coverage, but the president is reintroducing catastrophic
Reagan-era disability cuts.
Trump is a Brazen Liar About Social Security
Trump Gets An F From Workers
Clarifying Prospects for US Health Care
Financial Transactions Taxes Are No Longer a “Fringe”
Idea
The Fabulist-in-Chief Takes on Cancer
Who Can You Trust in a Liar’s World
Can Britain and EU Disentangle?
High school students could be fully trained plumbers and
electricians by age 20
Betsy Devos introduces rule making it harder for child
abuse victims come forward at school
Doctors Say Medicare For All Is The Best System For
America
Health Care for People ... or for Corporate Profits?
A Broken Promise to Teachers and Nonprofit Workers: Trump
wants to cancel student loan forgiveness for public servants. But what if you’ve
already taken the loans?
Facing Retirement With Fear: As they near their golden
years, workers wonder if their promised pensions will be able to carry them.
And Senate Republicans are blocking a fix.
Living in Inequality, Dying in Despair: Americans are
living a little longer. But we still lag well behind the developed world’s life
expectancy norm. As the world’s most unequal developed nation, we shouldn’t be
surprised.
Who’s Afraid of ‘Socialism’? Americans were taught to associate
“socialism” with dictatorship and “capitalism” with democracy. Are those days
over?
Long-Term Care Needs Attention Before You Need It
Trump’s Economy Neglects the Workplace
Globalize This
Maternity rights to be stripped from self-employed women
under new Conservative law
Trump administration quietly cuts funding to the nation’s
poorest schools
Trump Is Banking on Work Requirements to Cut Spending on
Medicaid and Food Stamps: He’s admitting that work requirements will cut
recipients off from their benefits—and reduce the deficit he himself created.
I’m Roasting at the Office. What Can I Do? Another reader asks if life will become
“chill” after they graduate.
Philadelphia Mayor Kinney’s City Budget
Marianne Williamson - Economics and the Human Experience
Letters from an American
Thune Bill Would Make Network Security an Official
Objective of Trade Deals
No one is likely to win the oil-price war: Saudi Arabia,
Russia and America will all suffer
Is Dimon’s work done at JPMorgan Chase? A second health scare puts the focus on
succession
The US stock market has now wiped out the entire $11.5
trillion of value it gained since Trump's 2016 election victory
Friends or Frenemies? How Russia and Iran Compete and
Cooperate
Trump Touts Tax-Break Plan in State of the Union Address
A Matter Of Conscience: As A Pastor, I Value America's
Legacy Of Religious Freedom -- And That's Why I Oppose Private School Vouchers
Brazilian Creationist To Head Higher-Education Unit
Changing Strained Alliances of World Capitalism [March
2020]
Dow plunges 9% even after emergency Fed rate cut, trading
briefly halted after the open
The Swamp Isn’t Easy to Drain: Corruption has been
inherent to American government since the Founding Fathers—and acknowledging
that is the first step toward containing it.
New US Trade Agreement HUGELY Benefits Oil Industry &
Corporate Polluters
The Barcodes Are Coming!
These Blue-Collar Trump Supporters Think the Economy Is
Great. Your Move, Democrats. At Trump’s
Milwaukee rally, supporters boasted that he’s ushered in an economic miracle.
Democrats face the challenge of convincing them otherwise.
How the UAW Went From a Militant, Trailblazing Union to a
Corrupt, Dealmaking One
“Social Poetics” Uncovers the Poetry of Everyday Workers
Jane McAlevey: We Desperately Need a Mass Strike Against
the Billionaire Class. An interview
about politics and power.
Can Corporate America Get Behind Medicare for All? One man’s crusade to sell big business on a
health care overhaul
The Uneasy Promise of Life in Silicon Valley: Anna
Wiener’s memoir captures the psychic burden of the tech worker.
https://newrepublic.com/article/156371/uneasy-promise-life-silicon-valley-uncanny-valley-book-review
How Business Schools Fail Up: The rise of the
STEM-obsessed, corporate-partnered university
What is the STOCK Act?
How Congress Quietly Overhauled Its Insider-Trading Law
US GDP by Year Compared to Recessions and Events: The
Strange Ups and Downs of the U.S. Economy Since 1929
U.S. Real GDP Per Capita (1900 – 2017): Current Economy
vs Historical Trend Line
Prophets of Instability: How finance broke the modern
corporation.
The Good Place: Architects have long worked for
autocrats. Is that changing?
Trump’s Most Devout Disciple: Lou Dobbs believes Trump is
one of history’s Great Men. The president is listening.
Touching the Void: Why minimalism is everywhere
A Prophetic Longing: Karl Marx’s life in Jewish history
Poverty and the Arts
How Trumpcare Could Lower Medical Costs
Paltry Research Funding
The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It with Robert
Reich
A Simple Prescription for a Longer Life: Equality. Epidemiologists say it’s no coincidence
Americans now live shorter lives than their counterparts in more equal
economies.
Bill Gates’s Charity Paradox: A Nation investigation
illustrates the moral hazards surrounding the Gates Foundation’s $50 billion
charitable enterprise.
An Epidemic of Insecurity
Let’s Get Real About Medicare for All: Our Current Health
Care System is Unsustainable
Check Chinese Contamination of Medical Equipment and
Prescription Drugs
Redirect Arms Spending into Affordable Housing
Retroactive Denial, or, I Changed My Mind
Once Again, Indigenous Census Quandary
Struggling for Shelter: Interviewing Dominique Walker
Know Your Billionaire: Jeff Bezos. The richest man in the world wants you to
work as much as he does—for one millionth of the pay
COMMONWEALTH OF PA - OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL JOB SEEKERS
Amazon seeks to hire 100,000 to keep up with surge in
orders
Giant Hiring Temporary And Part Time Team Members
At PepsiCo, you’ll be at the center of excitement
With commercial drivers in high demand, the pilot
provides civilian career opportunities to Reserve and National Guard members
ages 18, 19, and 20.
John Sayles: The Griot of Late Capitalism. Sayles’s collected works could fill a
semester of Socialist Night School.
Medical Bills Are Their Own Trauma: The administrative
burden placed on patients has been ignored for far too long.
Robert Reich: How to prepare for the coming Trump
recession. A recession is inevitable at
this point. Here are three things we can do to prepare
Streetcars and Metro Vancouver: Urban Planning History
Explained
A record 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment
last week: The actual number of unemployed could be much higher, since many
applicants had trouble filing a claim, as state labor departments became
overwhelmed.
The Weight of History: Lauren Jacobs, a longtime labor
and community organizer, talks about building the Left at a time of
opportunity.
Switzerland halts rollout of 5G over health concerns
Work and Poverty in the Date Palms
Letters to the Editor: We Need to Resurrect the Function
of Antitrust, etc.
Build Strength Close to Home
Reclaiming Vacant Homes
How To Keep The Digital Dollar Democratic: A ‘Treasury
Dollar Bill’ / ‘Treasury Direct’ Plan
Michael Hudson: A Debt Jubilee is the Only Way to Avoid a
Depression
Alliance for Local Economic Prosperity Seeks to Leverage
Public Banking to Revitalize and Reinvest in New Mexico Communities
Whiting Petroleum hands out $14.6 million cash to top executives
days before filing for bankruptcy
This Was Never Just About Woody Allen. It Still
Isn’t. Against the vice cop of the mind.
Union-Busting in the Name of God: Catholic universities
are relying on a religious exemption to avoid recognizing workers’ rights—and
workers are appealing to Catholic values to fight back.
Georgia Senator Sold Travel Shares Ahead of Trump Flight
Ban
Danielle Allen is Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center
for Ethics at Harvard University and professor in Harvard’s Department of
Government and Graduate School of Education.
DWP admits abusing data protection laws to shred 50
reviews of benefit-related suicides
White House Seeks To Lower Farmworker Pay To Help
Agriculture Industry
Harvard Leads U.S. Colleges That Received $1 Billion From
China
Trump's attorney general went on Fox News to suck up, but
Barr also pulled out a scary red flag
How CEOs Are Ruining America
Coming Together with a Universal Health Plan
Last Chance to Save the Euro?
There Is Enough Housing for People Unhoused: We Must Act
Now!
https://www.laprogressive.com/housing-for-people-unhoused/?utm_source=LA+Progressive+NEW&utm_campaign=a9f248c5bb-LAP+News+-+20+April+17+PC_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_61288e16ef-a9f248c5bb-286987487&mc_cid=a9f248c5bb&mc_eid=dd9216c814
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