Saturday, June 27, 2020

Economics and Corruption and Healthcare and Education related links 062720


Biden Calls For Student Loan Forgiveness And Free College

U.S. Economy Faces Long Recovery From Coronavirus Effects, Experts Say: Surveys of purchasing managers in U.S., Asia and Europe offer some hope that decline in factory activity is starting to bottom out

Consumer Spending Fell a Record 13.6% in April: Personal income rose 10.5% on impact of federal-stimulus payments; signs emerge that purchases are slowly starting to pick up

IRS Fails to Pursue Thousands of Rich Tax Cheats, Watchdog Says

Salaries get chopped for many Americans who manage to keep jobs

Mortgage rates hit another all-time low as home buyers rush to secure cheap financing: The number of people applying for loans to purchase a home has increased for six consecutive weeks after falling earlier in the coronavirus outbreak

What Is the Stock Market Even for Anymore?

Friends in Need: Mutual aid societies offer a model of cooperation for helping the vulnerable.

Zephyr Teachout's Push for Reform

Book: “Break ‘Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money”

Break ’Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money

U.S. slumps to 10th spot in world competitiveness rankings

U.S. plummets to 10th spot in World Competitiveness Ranking

Leading US Retirees 'Like Lambs to the Slaughter,' Trump Labor Dept. Quietly Offers Up 401k Plans to Private Equity Vultures: "Private equity firms will now be allowed to access—and skim fees off of—the $9 trillion in 100 million workers' 401(k) plans and IRAs."

7 Ways 2020 Has Exposed America

Citing an economic ?emergency,? Trump directs agencies across government to waive federal  regulations

Cannabis was used for religious rites at a biblical site in Israel, study finds

Economic Update: Working Class Radicalism

Hard Road of Hope by Eleanor Goldfield

The Best Way to Ensure Unemployed Workers Get Health Care? Pay for It Through Medicare.  There's only one group that benefits handsomely from the COBRA proposal: The health insurance industry.

Trump’s Advisers Have a Brazen Plot to Gut Social Security

Hunger Swells in an Already-Hungry State

Whistleblower: Education Department Killed Website That Made Applying for Loan Forgiveness Too Easy.  A whistleblower complaint said a senior Education Department official scrapped the website because it provided borrowers with too much information.

Production Workers Strike Against Major Navy Shipbuilder

Federal regulators weaken Wall Street rules
https://www.axios.com/federal-regulators-weaken-volcker-rule-cfe65e01-16f3-40e6-a8f9-70db1536bda9.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3KdDzGQMgUTAWj3PV1oOJwRKTWQvhM7vxcnSnNDk5TI1Pn_COVY_VfWPc

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