Debt, eviction, and hunger: Millions fall back into
crisis as stimulus and safety nets vanish.
‘That was really insulting’: Fox Business host loses it
when economist calls Trump advisers ‘liars for hire’
Immigration Services Agency Cancels Furloughs for 13,000
Employees: Agency expects major operational impacts and says furloughs still
possible in the future.
AskProfWolff: What Exactly is "Capital" in
Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt66WKrfyHQ
Trump's plan to 'terminate' payroll taxes would
'terminate' Social Security by 2023
'They're Favoring Certain Zip
Codes': WH Study Saying Opportunity Zones Drew In $75B Deconstructed
Hertz Paid Out $16 Million in Bonuses, Days Before
Bankruptcy: Executives at car-rental firm are latest group of corporate leaders
to get cash before their companies file for bankruptcy
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hertz-paid-out-16-million-in-bonuses-days-before-bankruptcy-11590524331
Outgoing MGM CEO Nabbed a $32 Million Exit Package One
Month Before Seeking Federal Bailout
J.C. Penney offers top execs million-dollar bonuses as it
faces possible bankruptcy
10 Ways Remote Learning Is Failing Our Students:
Returning to in-person learning poses many risks. So does staying at home.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/10-statistics-on-remote-learning
Education: From disruption to recovery
https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse
POLICY BRIEF: EDUCATION DURING COVID-19 AND BEYOND
Digital divide persists even as lower-income Americans
make gains in tech adoption
'A national crisis': As
coronavirus forces many schools online this fall, millions of disconnected
students are being left behind
Internet and Technology Access During the COVID-19
Pandemic: A Chronological Account and Approach to Helping Native American
Students in the Navajo Northern Agency
A national crisis as coronavirus forces many schools
online this fall millions of disconnected students are being left behind
One in five Boston public school children may be dropouts
Part One: Staying on Track The Mathematics All K-5 Students
Need Now Due to the COVID-19 Education Interruption
http://webassets.zearn.org/Implementation/ZearnMath_LearningRecovery_PartOne.pdf
Schools Try to Stem ‘Covid Slide’ Learning Loss: Many
families and educators are struggling with remote learning—and schools are
trying to figure out what works best
https://www.wsj.com/articles/schools-try-to-stem-covid-slide-learning-loss-11588857722
REPORT: While The Trump Administration Has Been Pushing
In-Person Learning In Schools, States Following Their Direction Have
Dangerously Low Testing Rates and Dangerously High Instances of Infection
Reopening means an additional $1.8 million in costs for
average-sized school district, administrators estimate: AASA and ASBO put a
dollar figure on the health and safety steps needed to reopen schools while
combating the coronavirus.
Surveys: Most Teachers Don't Want In-Person Instruction,
Fear COVID-19 Heath Risks
Remote learning returns this fall, and parents should
gear up for teaching sex ed
Trump Hotel in Vancouver closes as company files for
bankruptcy: Staff answering phone at front desk said hotel is closed, empty,
and staff are gone
Trump International Hotel in
Vancouver closes permanently
Economic Update: The Declining
Empire With Chris Hedges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euDYgYDXJHg
A 'Tidal Wave' of Power Cuts
May Be Coming as Electric Companies Resume Shutoffs
Toolkit for engaging millennials
with the national debt debate
A more inclusive employment
mandate
Videos begin to hit the airwaves showing families being
evicted from their homes
Jobless Claims Ease, Showing Slowly Improving Labor
Market: Payments from state programs down, but more people are tapping pandemic
benefits
AskProfWolff: Labor Unions, Socialism & Communism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf6yU7wmwEg
New car sales down, dealerships see more interest in used
vehicles
Millions Made Hungry By Pandemic Could Include Your
Neighbor: A collision of coronavirus-related economic crises is projected to
push 54 million people, found in every U.S. county, into food insecurity.
https://patch.com/us/across-america/millions-made-hungry-pandemic-could-include-your-neighbor
US adds 1.4 million jobs in August, but is still down
11.5 million jobs since Covid hit
Lifting Lockdowns Won’t Fully Restore the Economy:
Americans are reasonably worried about getting sick. Controlling the virus is
key to avoiding a recession.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/lifting-lockdowns-wont-fully-restore-the-economy-11597608016
The crippling return of long-term unemployment: When
joblessness is prolonged, more than people’s economic security is at stake.
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-crippling-return-of-long-term-unemployment/
One in four young adults in the US contemplated suicide
during pandemic
https://nypost.com/2020/08/13/1-in-4-young-adults-in-the-us-contemplated-suicide-during-pandemic/
Uber, Lyft Must Convert Drivers Into Employees, Judge
Rules
I Am the C.E.O. of Uber. Gig Workers Deserve Better. Gig workers want both flexibility and
benefits — we support laws that could make that possible.
Uber CEO: We Can All Agree This Is the Government’s Fault
https://gizmodo.com/uber-ceo-we-can-all-agree-this-is-the-government-s-fau-1844671967
Column: Uber and Lyft are threatening to suspend service
in California. We should call their bluff
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-08-12/uber-california-threat
The Next Stimulus Bill Still Hasn’t Arrived. Why The
Market Doesn’t Care.
Big Tech’s Domination of Business Reaches New Heights
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/technology/big-tech-business-domination.html
FHA Mortgage Delinquencies Reach a Record: Almost 16
percent of Federal Housing Administration loans were delinquent in the second
quarter, up from about 9.7 percent in the previous three months, and the
highest level in records dating back to 1979
Warren Buffett Just Bought a Gold Stock -- or Did
He? All is not what it seems at
Berkshire Hathaway.
https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/08/20/warren-buffett-just-bought-a-gold-stock-or-did-he/
Opinion: Trump's inadvertent tax hike
Why Businesses Should Ignore Trump's Payroll Tax
HolidayThe president signed a series of executive orders that are supposed to
help Americans. But for business owners, they're another headache to handle.
https://www.inc.com/diana-ransom/payroll-tax-holiday-executive-orders-phase-4.html
Column: Trump tax deferral poses a bigger threat to
Social Security than you might think
Biden’s 2009 Lessons for Now: Spend Big, No Coddling Wall
Street
On Capital Gains, Joe Biden Is No Jack Kennedy: JFK knew
the importance of encouraging investors to take risks and start companies.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/on-capital-gains-joe-biden-is-no-jack-kennedy-11597006775
Which industries will thrive—or be in the crosshairs—in a
Biden-Harris administration, according to analysts
https://fortune.com/2020/08/13/joe-biden-kamala-harris-administration-business-industry/
Wall Street's Big Money Is Betting On Biden And Democrats
In 2020
Traders Brace for Haywire Markets Around Presidential
Election: Betting on a wave of market volatility straight through to the
inauguration
A Tuna Tale: Starkist, Bumble Bee, Chicken of the Sea,
and the Sinking of Seafood Empires. Mafia-style
dinners, tears on the witness stand, jail time. It’s not what you think of when
you think of canned fish.
There’s No Cold War With China: Applying 20th-century
analogies to the U.S.-Chinese relationship is a misuse of history—and shows a
misunderstanding of the present.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/14/cold-war-china-misuse-of-history-united-states-soviet-union/
Working mothers are quitting to take care of their kids,
and the US job market may never be the same
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/economy/women-quitting-work-child-care/index.html
We Have Crossed the Line Debt Hawks Warned Us About for
Decades: The debt of the United States now exceeds the size of its gross
domestic product. That was considered a doomsday scenario that would wreck the
economy. So far, that hasn’t happened.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/business/economy/national-debt-coronavirus-stimulus.html
Leave public debt worries for another day: The priority
for now is reviving economies enough to push interest rates above zero
https://www.ft.com/content/691cb9f4-b53d-4429-bba4-03ca623c0077
Exxon Booted from Dow Industrials in Major Embrace of
Tech
American Airlines will lay off 19,000 workers if it
doesn't get additional federal help
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/25/business/american-airlines-job-cuts/index.html
Most economists don't think U.S. GDP will recover from
pandemic until 2022
Icahn's 'Beautiful Trade' Pays Off Early With Malls
Forced Shut
CEOs’ plans to reset capitalism bump into reality of
pandemic
Beware of Corporate promises. When firms issue statements of support for
social causes, they don’t always follow through
Who’s winning the battle for stakeholder capitalism?
https://qz.com/1893366/whos-winning-the-battle-for-stakeholder-capitalism/
The Pandemic Recession Is Approaching a Dire Turning Point
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/08/600-week-pandemic-unemployment-families/615580/
President Trump's attempt to bypass Congress on stimulus
is offering only limited economic relief
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/08/21/trump-unemployment/
Economy is slumping again as Washington puts stimulus on
hold
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/economy-projected-to-slump-again-with-no-stimulus-coming/
The Forgotten $1 Trillion Supporting the Economy
U.S. Economic Recovery Gains Steam While Others Stutter:
Activity in U.S. grows as businesses reopen, despite July’s surge in new virus
infections
The U.S. has two economies. How much longer will losing side stand that?
New York Continues to Send More Federal Tax Dollars to
Washington Than It Gets in Return
State Ranks 50th in Total Balance of Payments; Received
Only 90 Cents on Every Dollar Paid to Washington
5 reasons why splitting New York would be a disaster for
Upstate
The ugly numbers are finally in
on the 2017 Trump tax rewrite — and the rich made out like bandits
Your Tuesday Briefing: China’s exports, Mongolia
protests, Indian Supreme Court: Here’s what you need to know.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/briefing/china-economy-india-border-taiwan-kite.html
Durable goods orders may have peaked in July
https://www.axios.com/durable-goods-orders-july-peak-6834dff6-f7b0-47c1-a260-1f3d01e32424.html
Navigating the Economy for Higher Inflation: Don’t Fight
the Fed
God Is Dead. So Is the Office. These People Want to Save
Both. Divinity consultants are designing
sacred rituals for corporations and their spiritually depleted employees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/business/remote-work-spiritual-consultants.html
Virginia adds nearly 1,200 COVID cases overnight
A Stronger Labor Movement is Essential to Fixing
America's Unjust Economy: The power of unions has been reduced over the past 40
years, resulting in a widening inequality gap that works fine for the rich but
not for working people whose wages don’t leave enough to let them save for
emergencies.
https://www.populist.com/26.15.conway.html
Jim Hightower: Crime in the Suites
The exceptional greed of healthcare executives
https://hightowerlowdown.org/podcast/the-exceptional-greed-of-healthcare-executives/
Happy 30th Birthday, ADA. What’s Next? We need a system where people with disabilities
are universally included by design — not “accommodation.”
https://www.populist.com/26.15.richardson.html
The Consequences of Inequality Can Be Fatal
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/31/the-consequences-of-inequality-can-be-fatal/
Rethinking Fed Lending to Get Help to Working Families
https://www.populist.com/26.15.sandronsky.html
On Medicare and Medicaid's 55th Birthday, Let's Expand
Benefits — Not Cut Them: In the 55 years since the legislation was signed into
law, both programs have proven their worth.
https://www.populist.com/26.15.altman.html
Mary Sanchez: Some children may never escape the harm of
COVID-19
Robert B. Reich: The truth about the COVID-19 economy
The Uninsured, Redux
https://www.populist.com/26.15.retsinas.html
The Supreme Court Just Made the Case for Medicare for
All: The Court says employers can refuse to cover birth control. This is why
care shouldn’t be tied to employment.
https://www.populist.com/26.15.paslaski.html
The Pandemic’s Winners and Losers
https://www.populist.com/26.15.oleary.html
Fed Guarantees Unproductive Debt and Perilous Speculation
https://nader.org/2020/07/24/fed-guarantees-unproductive-debt-and-perilous-speculation/
Small Change is a Big Problem in the Pandemic Economy
https://www.populist.com/26.15.anderson.html
Democracy Now | Medicare for All: A prescription against
deadly COVID-19 capitalism
Economic Update: U.S. Labor
Crisis Deepens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNNk6qqMC7A
What's Next For The U.S. Economy: Robert Reich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQswOcLFYWg
What You Need to Know this Labor Day | Reich at Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysy4R6LskKo
Hobby Lobby Boycott Calls After 'Vote Trump' Display
Spotted in Store
Let's talk about whether a K-shaped recovery is Trump's
fault....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlkWVIt6uXo
How A Drug Is Born
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