A Different Kind of College Ranking: Students are looking
to hold schools accountable for doing good. We’ve got the metrics they need.
How to Save Higher Education: A New Deal for America’s
sinking colleges.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/september-october-2020/how-to-save-higher-education/
Higher Ed’s Most Successful Failure: Why a proven reform
to boost community college graduation rates can’t get traction.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/september-october-2020/higher-eds-most-successful-failure/
Why Apprenticeships Should Go Soft: A novel job training
program fills the real skills gap.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/september-october-2020/why-apprenticeships-should-go-soft/
America’s Best Bang for the Buck Colleges: Our
one-of-a-kind list of schools that help non-wealthy students attain marketable
degrees at affordable prices.
Everybody In, Nobody Out
https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/everybody-in-nobody-out/
‘I don’t trust him’: How Trump Abandoned Workers When
They Needed Him the Most
https://www.populist.com/26.16.conway.html
INSIGHT: The Simple Fix For Corporate Income Tax—Tax
Stock Returns
Every Day Is Like Survival
https://www.populist.com/26.16.seggel.html
Teaching in a Pandemic: An Interview with Mercedes K.
Schneider
https://www.populist.com/26.16.sandronsky.html
On the Cusp of a Sex Ed Revolution: Texas has its first
opportunity in more than two decades to address gaps in its approach to sex ed.
Elon Musk Trades Insults With Robert Reich Over Tesla Pay
Cuts
Are We Seeing The Beginning Of A Global Food Crisis?
Professor Richard Wolff Joins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVQ5HC47e4o
U.S. Reliance on China-Made Drugs and Supplies Spurs ‘Buy
American’ Efforts
Exclusive: As Energy Secretary, Rick Perry Mixed Money
and Politics in Ukraine. The Deals Could Be Worth Billions
https://time.com/5887230/rick-perry-deals-energy-ukraine/
Face Masks Can Prove Tricky for Those With Eyeglasses:
Science offers solutions for when your specs fog up
Why Fed Officials Are Begging for More Stimulus
Trump’s National Labor Relations Board Is Sabotaging Its
Own Mission: The federal agency that’s supposed to protect union rights is
instead championing the interests of bosses.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-nlrb-labor/
House of Cards: Can the American university be saved?
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gig-academy-meritocracy-trap-universities-crisis/
The Forking Paths: C. Pam Zhang’s reenvisioned western.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/cpam-zhang-how-much-hills-gold-review/
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight
for Democracy
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44890068-a-collective-bargain
The Fed Puts Its Independence on the Line: The central
bank is on a one-way path to a larger role in our government and economy. Wall
Street is thrilled, Main Street not so much.
Air safety bill prompted by 737 Max flaws pulled before
vote: Bipartisan co-sponsors say they're still in agreement, but some committee
members raised new concerns
Capitol Ink | Sinking feeling
Where do we draw the line between life and death?
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/where-do-we-draw-line-between-life-death
The oldest known grass beds from 200,000 years ago
included insect repellents: The ancient bed remnants include fossilized grass,
bug-repelling ash and aromatic leaves
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/oldest-grass-beds-insect-repellent
New guidance on brain death could ease debate over when
life ends: This clarity may help identify when the brain has stopped working,
completely and irrevocably
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-guidance-brain-death-debate-over-when-life-ends
Commodity of Doom: Elegies for the cigarette
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/commodity-of-doom-marzoni
‘Jobless recovery’: Hiring resumes as layoffs stay high
To Provide Public Alternative to 'Predatory' Wall Street
Banks, Sanders and Gillibrand Unveil Postal Banking Act: "No one in
America should have to pay a 400% interest rate on a $375 loan from a payday
lender."
Trump Voters Freak Out About Trump Tax Hike - Part 2 [old
news- dating back to 2019]
Economic Update: How We Get Beyond Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9BNi6I53p0
The Social Progress Index offers a rich framework for
measuring the multiple dimensions of social progress, benchmarking success, and
catalyzing greater human wellbeing.
https://www.socialprogress.org/index/global/results
Jim Hightower: The Dow Jones v.
the Doug Jones
We Need More Than Disaster Recovery — We Need Green Jobs:
Across the South, many workers rely on industries whose pollution causes
devastating storms. Let’s rebuild with sustainable jobs.
https://www.populist.com/26.17.tidwell.html
Organizing Labor in the Pandemic South
https://www.populist.com/26.17.atkins.html
The Comeback of Manufacturing Jobs: MAGA Land and the Real
World
https://cepr.net/the-comeback-of-manufacturing-jobs-maga-land-and-the-real-world/
Spending on Prescription Drugs: Lies My President Told Me
#3,475,652
https://cepr.net/spending-on-prescription-drugs-lies-my-president-told-me-3475652/
Heartland Tenants Who Beat the
Odds: With an eviction crisis looming, take heart from these Minnesota renters
who bought their buildings out from under a negligent landlord.
https://www.populist.com/26.17.janzer.html
Within Healthcare USA, Risk and
Reward Have Never Been More Out of Kilter: Nurses are losing lives and jobs
while execs rake in million after million.
https://www.populist.com/26.17.pizzigati.html
Professional Athletes Are Showing America Just How
Powerful Labor Really Is
https://www.edgeofsports.com/2020-08-27-1551/index.html
What’s at Stake for the Labor Movement on Election Day?
Everything. Unions hope a Biden presidency
will reverse decades of anti-worker policies.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/labor-workers-rights-biden-trump-2020-election-unions
What Does a “Safe Return” to School Look Like? Ask
Teacher Unions. Powerful elites are
willing to sacrifice the lives and futures of millions to feed their own
profits. Teachers are fighting back.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/what-does-a-safe-return-to-school-look-like-ask-teacher-unions
All the Options for Schooling Are Bad—But We Have to
Choose Safety: On parents’ impossible decision.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/all-the-options-for-schooling-are-bad-but-we-have-to-choose-safety
Tenants Just Won a Nationwide Eviction Ban. They're Still
Fighting to Cancel Rent. President
Trump’s surprise eviction moratorium is an election hail-mary. But to stave off
a disastrous housing crisis, organizers say Democrats—including Joe Biden—must
embrace bolder measures.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/eviction-cliff-crisis-cdc-moratorium-trump-biden-2020
Trump’s False Claims of Rampant Voter Fraud Draw From a
Well-worn Racist Playbook: Republicans have tried to suppress turnout among
voters who are poor, disabled or people of color for many years.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-gops-old-refrain-voter-fraud
Why did Mayor Kenney disable a tool for fighting blight
in the name of ‘public safety’?
Inside Big Pharma’s Stealth War on Drug Price Watchdog:
Reuters Special Report
The End of the University: The pandemic should force
America to remake higher education.
https://newrepublic.com/article/159233/coronavirus-pandemic-collapse-college-universities
From I to We: Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett’s
vision for a new civic community
https://newrepublic.com/article/159276/the-upswing-book-review-robert-putnam-shaylyn-romney-garrett
Miranda July Takes on the Rigged System: In her new film,
“Kajillionaire,” a family tries to slip free of capitalism.
https://newrepublic.com/article/159294/miranda-july-kajillionaire-film-review-capitalism-rigged
Job security, finances strongly related to increased
anxiety during pandemic
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200924135325.htm
Boris Johnson is trashing
Britain's reputation. Labour cannot stand by: Breaking international law will
have disastrous consequences for the UK. The moment demands more than tactical
silence
Conservative grandees call on
Justice Secretary Robert Buckland to resign over Prime Minister's threat to
break international law: It comes amid a searing row over the Internal Markets
Bill, which would override parts of the UK’s Withdrawal Agreement with the
European Union
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/robert-buckland-call-to-resign-brexit-bill-a4544446.html
Brexit deal breaches will harm hope of trade deal,
Brussels chief warns Boris Johnson
Amazon to Hire 100,000 in U.S. and Canada: New full- and
part-time positions will pay at least $15 an hour
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-hire-100-000-in-u-s-and-canada-11600071208
Vaccine maker got $1 billion from taxpayers. Now it’s
boosting drug prices
Congress lacks urgency for more economic stimulus
https://www.axios.com/covid-stimulus-ppp-skinny-bill-386e4d89-2093-41ef-b28c-3c44b0611999.html
Worker-Focused Pandemic Relief Was a Success: But as
Congress and the administration consider next steps, the fear of welfarism is
colliding with sound policy and the principle of fairness.
https://thebulwark.com/worker-focused-pandemic-relief-was-a-success/
This week in Trumponomics: Washington is done helping
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/this-week-in-trumponomics-washington-is-done-helping-191712607.html
How’s the Coronavirus Economy? Great or Awful, Depending
on Whom You Ask. Some people are paying off credit cards and padding savings.
Others are going hungry or worried about eviction. Here’s how that divergence
happened.
How Citi's new CEO managed her work/life balance
The 57 people the Justice Department charged with trying
to steal $175 million in coronavirus relief funds
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/10/ppp-fraud-charges/
‘We were shocked’: RAND study uncovers massive income
shift to the top 1%. The median worker
should be making as much as $102,000 annually—if some $2.5 trillion wasn’t
being “reverse distributed” every year away from the working class.
Pennsylvania women and people
of color are bearing the brunt of the recession, report shows
Trump Took Credit for Making Insulin “So Cheap It’s Like
Water.” Tell That to People Paying for It.
“The sticker price for a three-month supply of the insulin I take is
over $7,500.”
31.4% spring slide for a US economy likely to shrink in
2020
American, United move ahead with more than 32,000
furloughs, but will recall workers if coronavirus aid deal reached
New data show rich people hold more stocks than ever
6 Places to Get Low-Cost or Free Mammograms — Even
Without Insurance
Capitalism Hits Home: US COVID Response Destroys
Education, Sets Women Back Decades
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOFZf71ODiY
Economic Update: Capitalism's Anxiety About the State
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie6IY-GuXDI
Russian State Media: U.S. Versus Russia in COVID-19
Vaccine Race
Open Data Philly posts troubling new data on illegal
tobacco sales to minors in Philadelphia
Americans are finally saving more money - at exactly the
wrong time
'Shameless Stunt': Trump Reportedly Attempting to Raid
Medicare Trust Fund to Pay for Drug Discount Cards With His Name on Them. "There it is: Trump wants to steal
billions from Medicare to pay for an illegal voter bribery scheme weeks before
the election."
6 Places to Get Low-Cost or Free Mammograms — Even
Without Insurance
Insurance Coverage for the Cost of Diabetes Education
Classes
https://www.dummies.com/health/diseases/diabetes/insurance-coverage-cost-diabetes-education-classes/
Tax records show 200 entities funneled money to Trump
properties while reaping benefits from White House: NYT
Sugar Can Make Symptoms of This Disease Worse, Study
Finds: The results could lead to more dietary guidance for those with the
disease, and for everyone regarding fructose.
Biden ‘blue wave’ would boost economy, says Goldman Sachs
chief economist
AskProfWolff: A Critique of Robert Reich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNRyDa79ygA
Economic Update: New U.S. Labor Militancy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0NbVh4GLIk
Prof. Richard Wolff: the Sickness is the System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kew5vagDP2M
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an
Age of Discontent
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324004219
Nearly nine of 10 workers want to keep work-from-home
option: survey
Annual California Employment Law Update: New Laws for
2021 Provide COVID-19 Protections and Expand Family Leave
RESTAURANT WORKERS ARE BUILDING SOLIDARITY AMID THE
PANDEMIC
https://popularresistance.org/restaurant-workers-are-building-solidarity-amid-the-pandemic/
Meet the Warehouse Worker Who Took On Amazon Over
Inhumane Conditions and Harassment
Meet the Warehouse Worker Who Took On Amazon Over
Inhumane Conditions and Harassment
Hibaq Mohamed organized her community in a fight against
Amazon, protesting working conditions at a fulfillment center with one of the
highest rates of injury.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/amazon-profile-hibaq-mohammed
What a Just Transition Would Actually Mean for Workers:
If there can be a Superfund for toxic dirt, there should be one for workers.
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