'No one should go hungry':
street fridges of free food help Americans survive Covid pandemic
Annual income of richest 100 people enough to end global
poverty four times over
Unleashing the Power of Poor and Low-Income Americans
Small Businesses Are Dying by the Thousands — And No One
Is Tracking the Carnage
35 Best And Worst Countries To Raise A Family (You Won’t
Believe America’s Ranking)
Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World Paperback
– Illustrated, May 7, 2019
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1568589433?tag=sa-sym-new-20&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1
Nomi Prins is a geopolitical financial expert and
investigative journalist who sheds light on the dark corners of the global
economy, while empowering people with the knowledge they need to make informed
decisions.
AskProfWolff: Mussolini: From Socialism to Fascism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_JaKELQB04
Economic Update: The FED's Rigged Money Management
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvTlmJUOEuw
AskProfWolff: Tax Breaks for Corporations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh-XRzQXcpA
US budget deficit climbs to record $2.81 trillion
AMERICA IS BEING PUT ON NOTICE OF INEQUALITIES.
Chesapeake Energy, a Shale Pioneer, Files for Bankruptcy
Protection: The company helped turn the United States into a gas exporter but
became known for an illegal scheme to suppress the price of oil and gas leases.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/business/economy/chesapeake-energy-bankruptcy.html
Oil Giant Files For Bankruptcy While Its Executives
Receive $25 Million Dollars
Whiting Bosses Got $14.6 Million Bonuses Before
Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy Bonuses
https://blog.cheapism.com/ceo-bankruptcy-bonuses/
J.C. Penney pays out nearly $10M to execs as finances
falter
https://www.retaildive.com/news/jc-penney-pays-out-nearly-10m-to-execs-as-finances-falter/577947/
10 Iconic Retailers Fall Into Bankruptcy: Lord &
Taylor, Neiman Marcus, other chains reeling from COVID-19 disruption
On eve of bankruptcy, U.S. firms shower execs with
bonuses
GNC To Pay CEO $2 Million Bonus As It Files For
Bankruptcy And Moves To Close Over 1,300 Stores
Judge approves 'bankruptcy bonuses' for Fairway Market
executives
Libbey Inc hopes to complete prepackaged bankruptcy by
Sept. 13
Chuck E Cheese parent company files for Chapter 11
bankruptcy and execs got bonusexs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/25/chuck-e-cheese-bankruptcy-coronavirus/
12 Companies Paying Execs Millions as They Declare
Bankruptcy and Slash Jobs: These CEOs are making millions while their employees
lose jobs.
https://www.gobankingrates.com/money/business/companies-paying-bonuses-declare-bankruptcy/
Ascena Paying Millions in Executive Bonuses While
Weighing Bankruptcy
Hertz doled out $16M in bonuses to top executives days
before bankruptcy filing: Hertz said it gave $700,000 to newly instated CEO
Paul Stone
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/hertz-paid-out-bonuses-top-executives-filing-bankruptcy
Diamond Offshore Gets OK For $14.5M In Executive Bonuses
https://www.law360.com/articles/1286066/diamond-offshore-gets-ok-for-14-5m-in-executive-bonuses
Let's talk about UBI and living wages....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZADrnNuiPk
Baseball Is Playing for Its Life, and Ours: An outbreak
of infections soon after reopening has struck a blow at more than just the
Marlins.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/opinion/baseball-coronavirus-Marlins.html
The Guardian view on Boris Johnson’s obesity strategy:
too slimmed-down: The measures unveiled by the government are welcome. But a
far more comprehensive approach, recognising the role of inequality, is
required
Blood tests for Alzheimer's: Two experts on why new
studies are encouraging
SEC investigating Kodak’s announcement of a $765 million
government loan: report
Companies Start to Think Remote Work Isn’t So Great After
All: Projects take longer. Collaboration is harder. And training new workers is
a struggle. ‘This is not going to be sustainable.’
Remote Managers Are Having Trust Issues
https://hbr.org/2020/07/remote-managers-are-having-trust-issues
Google Is Helping Its Workers Cope With Bad Government:
Keeping all employees at home until next summer ensures that parents aren’t
punished for school closures.
The Long, Unhappy History of Working From Home: As the
coronavirus keeps spreading, employers are convinced remote work has a bright
future. Decades of setbacks suggest otherwise.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/technology/working-from-home-failure.html
Opinion: Bye, boomer: the coming cull of workers over 50
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bye-boomer-the-coming-cull-of-workers-over-50-2020-07-29
McDonald’s Sues Former C.E.O., Accusing Him of Lying and
Fraud. The fast-food chain said Steve
Easterbrook, who was fired last fall, concealed evidence during an
investigation into his conduct.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/business/mcdonalds-ceo-steve-easterbrook.html
The fast-food chain fired Steve Easterbrook last year
over a consensual relationship with an employee. Now it’s suing him to recover
severance pay, alleging he lied about other affairs. McDonald’s is doing the
right thing, but maybe his earlier escape shouldn’t have been so easy.
https://www.breakingviews.com/considered-view/mcdonalds-ex-ceo-lawsuit-provides-takeaways/
The Fed is expected to make a major commitment to ramping
up inflation soon
The Fed Is Setting the Stage for a Major Policy Change:
Policy makers have begun talking about letting the inflation rate rise above
its 2% target. Look for a formal statement soon.
Everything at the grocery store is getting more expensive
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/business/grocery-prices-rising/index.html
Goldman Warns the Dollar's Grip on Global Markets Might
Be Over
America’s hidden economic crisis: Widespread wage
cuts. Employers are using pay cuts to
stay afloat during the recession, an unusual move that could signal deep damage
to the labor market.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/19/wage-cuts-economy-crisis-368508
Fortunes Won and Lost Trading in Kodak Stock: Inside a
Wild Week. Sudden rise and fall offer warning for investors who ignore
fundamentals and focus on a potential Covid-19 connection
We killed the middle class. Here’s how we can revive it. By helping each other reach our full
potential, we’ll help the whole country get its swagger back.
Trump’s Tax Cuts Were a Disaster. Naturally, Republicans
Want Even More. Study up, because
they’re about to try again.
Economic Update: Capitalism's Definition is NOT Innocent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCu459N3JuQ
Fewer inspectors, more deaths: The Trump administration
rolls back workplace safety inspections
About 90 percent of serious accidents happen at
workplaces that haven’t been inspected by OSHA.
Defending One Brooklyn Brownstone Is Just the Beginning:
Eviction blockades and neighbors coming together might be tenants’ best defense
against landlords.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/crown-heights-eviction-defense/
McDonald’s Has a Real Sexual
Harassment Problem: Since 2015, scores of women have accused the company of
fostering a workplace rife with sexual harassment—and of turning its back when
they reported mistreatment.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mcdonalds-sexual-harassment-feature/
The User Always Loses: How did the Internet get so bad?
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/joanne-mcneil-lurking-review/
CEO compensation surged 14% in 2019 to $21.3 million:
CEOs now earn 320 times as much as a typical worker
Goodyear tumbles 6% after Trump
tweets to boycott the company over MAGA hat ban (GT)
Beyond Big Meat: Just six companies control two-thirds of
the nation's meat production. It's time to end their monopoly of our food
supply.
https://newrepublic.com/article/158679/beyond-big-meat-coronavirus-pandemic-meatpacking-monopoly
The Unequal Future of Consumption: How the Covid lockdown
is reconfiguring the nexus of getting and spending
https://newrepublic.com/article/158737/covid-lockdown-unequal-future-consumption
The Pandemic Is Exposing the Rotten Core of Our
Industrial Food System: While industrial farms have been thrown into chaos,
local agriculture has proved to be a more resilient model.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/local-agriculture-covid-pandemic-industrial-food-system
The Future of Homeless Organizing Lives on the Prettiest
Street in Philadelphia
Workers Blow the Whistle on Mass Death: Private equity
firms have imposed austerity measures on the hospitals they acquire. In a
pandemic, that’s meant countless preventable deaths.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/workers-blow-whistle-mass-death-private-equity-hospitals
Rebuild Farmer-Labor
Solidarity: COVID-19 has created new opportunities to reform the nation’s food
system.
https://progressive.org/magazine/rebuild-farmer-labor-solidarity-lloyd/
Make the Best of Public Education: The grace period is
over: It’s time for America to be the grown-up our kids are counting on.
https://progressive.org/magazine/make-best-of-public-education-dubois-bourenane/
Cutting Medicaid into Oblivion: The per capita cap on
Medicaid is a sneaky way of beginning the process of cutting the program
entirely.
https://progressive.org/magazine/cutting-medicaid-into-oblivion-ervin/
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