Economic Update: Capitalism's Worst Nightmare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXYvFk9I9hY
GOP planted a time bomb in their 2017 tax cut bill that
will actually raise most people’s taxes: Nobel economist
Capitalism Sucks
Non-Compete
Economic Update: No Matter Who Wins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD99BhjmCN4
Joe Biden Must Be a President for America’s Workers: If
2020 has demonstrated anything, it is the need to rebalance the economy to
benefit the working class—and there are many ways a Biden Administration can
start.
School Lunch Program Supplier
Sold Juice With High Arsenic Levels, U.S. Says in Lawsuit: F.D.A. inspectors
also said that the supplier, Valley Processing of Sunnyside, Wash., used
rotting or moldy apples and pears, in addition to expired concentrate, to make
juice.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/us/apple-juice-arsenic.html
"Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S.
has women."
Speech by David Choquehuanca on Assuming the
Vice-Presidency of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, November 8, 2020
LAKOTA CODE OF ETHICS
https://bryanmorse.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/lakota-code-of-ethics/
Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy.
What does this mean for the nation’s political-economic divide?
Economic Update: U.S. Labor Battles Covid 19 &
Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3UQ2YYywqE
EMPATHY - BEST SPEECH OF ALL TIME By Simon Sinek |
Inspiritory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJyNoJCAuzA
Open Enrollment is here - and ends Dec 15
https://www.healthcare.gov/?fbclid=IwAR34b-dhSm7SlWx5ioSjf4uLfJsQb_TVNPDSE1y41fkvhcJDlAdREs0A1Qo
Global Capitalism: Post-Election Special [November 2020]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lZfDf992To
“The TV and Radio show where the people who say it can’t
be done take a backseat to the people who are doing it.”
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.
MOC #14 – Both Parties Are Anti-Science
COVID-19 pandemic creates greater need for food in
Philadelphia
https://6abc.com/free-turkey-philadelphia-west-philly-philabundance-covid19/8106322/
Trump's economic team accused of 'sabotaging' Biden
before exiting: The outgoing Trump administration doesn't have to make it
harder for the Biden administration to boost the economy. But they're doing it
anyway.
Economic Update: What Capitalism's Decline Means
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMIho9ah9wc
New jobless claims unexpectedly rise for the 2nd week in
a row
https://theweek.com/speedreads/951935/new-jobless-claims-unexpectedly-rise-2nd-week-row
How the CARES Act changes deducting charitable
contributions
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/how-the-cares-act-changes-deducting-charitable-contributions
'No Corners Have Been Cut,' Doctor Says On Vaccine
Development | Morning Joe | MSNBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHK_cBhFfQA
Coronavirus live updates: Global death toll climbs to 1.5
million; U.S. crosses 14 million infections
President-Elect Biden Hosts a Virtual Roundtable on the
Impact of COVID-19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Se0ouTAS1Y
Just 1% of Farms Control 70% of Global Farmland: Study
Finds 'Shocking State of Land Inequality'
Concerns grow over homeless encampment outside Belvedere
Tower Condos in downtown Denver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9bTpnAg848
Let's talk about how the stock market isn't the
economy....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80DeGZ_M-yg
Wolff Responds What to Expect from Janet Yellen as
Treasury Secretary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVgKt3TSGnE
How to create a mutual aid network
Reversal of biological clock restores vision in old mice:
‘Reprogramming’ approach seems to make old cells young again.
Pushed by Pandemic, Amazon Goes on a Hiring Spree Without
Equal: The company has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, bringing its
global work force to more than 1.2 million.
Vision Revision: Scientists reverse age-related vision
loss, glaucoma damage in mice
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/vision-revision?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email
James O'Brien made a passionate plea to frustrated
Brexiteers to let go of anger.
From Platform to Policy: 2021 Health Care Agenda
https://thehill.com/event/527161-from-platform-to-policy-2021-health-care-agenda
A just post-pandemic transition
https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/a-just-post-pandemic-transition/
Just transitions: Histories and futures in a post-COVID
world
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7351418/
TIAA CEO Roger Ferguson thinks we could be headed for a
‘double-dip recession’
If nations compete for doses of coronovirus vaccines,
we’ll all lose: Pandemics can only be contained through organized collaboration
and cooperative diplomacy
In an Oligarchy Like Ours, Fascism is Bound to Replace
Liberalism
Why Wealth Inequality is the Real Threat to Democracy
https://duedissidence.com/2020/10/08/why-wealth-inequality-is-the-real-threat-to-democracy/
Trump is officially leaving office with such a bad
economy that he set records
Yale Study Says Medicare for All Would Save U.S. $450
Billion, Prevent Nearly 70,000 Deaths a Year
Government agency finds Medicare for all saves money
How Hospital Monopolies Broke the Health Care System:
Corporate consolidation has left the US with a health care system built for
profit, not people.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/coronavirus-healthcare-consolidation/
The Visible Hand: How monopolies define everyday life in
the United States.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/david-dayen-monopolized-review/
Jim Hightower: Should Gig Giants Keep Gigging Workers?
REMEMBER THE TRULY VULNERABLE: I’m an immigrant domestic
worker and I’ve lost my home. We need relief, regardless of our immigration
status.
https://otherwords.org/remember-the-truly-vulnerable/
Record 33.1 Percent Surge Still Leaves GDP 3.5 Percent
Below Pre-Pandemic Level
Tom Vilsack for Agriculture Secretary Is Everything
That’s Wrong With the Democratic Party: Our planet and rural communities cannot
afford four more years of Vilsack’s aggressive corporatism.
Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church got $4.4 million in federal
PPP loans
INEVITABLE MEGACHURCH ABUSE OF PPP FUNDS IS COMING TO
LIGHT — PRIVATE JET INCLUDED
America’s hollow middle class: The cost of living has
risen, wages have not, and debt just keeps on accumulating.
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22166381/hollow-middle-class-american-dream
Rideshare Company Rules: California’s Proposition 22 Wins
https://www.populist.com/26.21.Sandronsky.html
At Last: Something States Can Do, Easily, to Improve
Health
https://www.populist.com/26.21.Retsinas.html
If Only the Election Had Been About Health Care: There
should only be one America: one where we all get the best care and the widest
range of choices.
https://www.populist.com/26.21.Shelly.html
Lessons from Bank Bailout: Remember the Borrowers
https://www.populist.com/26.21.Buell.html
How Do You Spell Fiscal Relief? Now that Mitch McConnell has blocked corona
aid, it’s time for the Fed to step into the breach—and for its one Democratic
governor, Lael Brainard, to lead the charge.
https://prospect.org/economy/how-do-you-spell-fiscal-relief/
Join us for Career Education, Resources, Support, and
Networking for Working Adults Who Are Job Seekers, Self-Employed, &
Employed
Great Careers Philadelphia Area - EVENTS FOR DECEMBER
2020
https://greatcareersphl.org/events/
Can Anything Be Done About America’s Obscene Wealth
Inequities?
Mitch Letting Corporations Kill Us with Impunity
While 45 Was Golfing
Bus Riders Union.
Film. Haskell Wexler. 2000. 86 minutes.
The Los Angeles Bus Riders Union’s triumphant struggle to win better
service.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/bus-riders-union/
50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down,
economics study says
Relief bill could slam door on Biden’s ability to extend
emergency economic support: Sen. Pat Toomey said he was “hoping and expecting” that
the language would be included in a final agreement.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/17/relief-bill-biden-extend-emergency-economic-support-447796
The plan to save a historic Sharswood home by turning it
into a community resource: Maya Thomas is fed up with “demolition by neglect”
of African American resources in Philly.
Real Time with Bill Maher: New Rule – Tax the Churches
(HBO)
The Entourage Of Rockefeller’s Effect On Cannabis And
Hemp Prohibition
CNBC Transcript: Dr. Anthony Fauci Speaks with CNBC’s Meg
Tirrell Live During the CNBC Healthy Returns Livestream Today
US airport traffic rising despite holiday travel warnings
Despite Years Of Litigation, The Sackler Family Behind
OxyContin Is Still Worth Billions
Economic Update: Lessons From A Crisis Year 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwO2qx1z1UU
Wolff Responds: Congress' Shameful Relief Bill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpiC96tIYMM
Survey shows American's declining quality of life in 2020
- Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXyZQ7SYKxA
Male bosses regard employee depression more negatively: A
Swedish survey finds that negative opinions regarding depression are more
prevalent among managers who are men.
How COVID-19 Became A 'Tremendous Windfall' For The Ultra
Rich
https://www.ksmu.org/post/how-covid-19-became-tremendous-windfall-ultra-rich
MacKenzie Scott’s Bold and Direct Giving Puts Shame to
the Billionaire Class and Their Perpetual Private Foundations. The billionaire philanthropist continues to
defy the charitable norms of the 1 percent.
Celebrating the Passage of the Corporate Transparency
Act: This week, Congress takes a meaningful step toward eliminating anonymous
shell corporations.
https://ips-dc.org/celebrating-the-passage-of-the-corporate-transparency-act/
Billionaire Made $1 Trillion Since COVID-19. They Can
Afford to Protect Their Workers. In a
holiday shopping season with rampant rates of COVID-19 infection, we must
protect frontline workers before it’s too late.
Why Can’t CEOs Pay For Their Own 3-Martini Lunch? Buried in the Covid relief deal is a
provision that will require taxpayers to subsidize lavish business meals for
corporate executives.
Pandemic Has Played Into The Hands Of The Wealthy
TRADE-OFFS: YOUR MONEY, YOUR CHOICES. Our federal budget represents a series of
choices. Those choices should reflect our priorities as a nation. But do they?
Jim Hightower: Trump's Anti-Labor Department
This Thanksgiving, Let's Celebrate AgriCULTURE, Not
AgriBUSINESS
Don’t Trash the Affordable Care Act — Expand It: Not even
a raging pandemic stopped Republicans from dragging yet another effort to throw
millions off their health care to the Supreme Court.
https://www.populist.com/26.22.Alperstein.html
Why Capitalism Was Destined to Come Out on Top in the
2020 Election: No matter who “won” the US election, what will not change is the
capitalist organization of the country’s economy.
https://www.populist.com/26.22.Wolff.html
Mary Sanchez: Latinos for Donald Trump is the story of
assimilation
We Must Protect Essential Workers From Billionaire
Pandemic Profiteers: We are witnessing a criminal tragedy as wealthy
billionaires, sequestered in protective bubbles and private jets, are
dispatching essential workers into the line of infection fire with inadequate
shields and protections.
https://www.populist.com/26.22.Collins.html
Pragmatism: the New Order Mantra
https://www.populist.com/26.22.Retsinas.html
The Piggybank Still Has Many Coins
https://www.populist.com/26.22.Buell.html
Capitalism’s Strange Fruit
https://www.populist.com/26.22.Seggel.html
Ask Prof Wolff: Why Capitalist Inequality Matters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGzgEgWjCBI
Trump’s Longtime Banker at Deutsche Bank Resigns:
Rosemary Vrablic, who oversaw hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to
President Trump’s company, will leave the bank next week.
Mike Pence accidentally admits the real reason
Republicans hate Democrats so much
https://www.rawstory.com/mike-pence-vice-president/
Don’t Let Trump Claim Credit for the $2,000 Direct
Payments
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/12/donald-trump-coronavirus-stimulus-checks-sanders
Psilocybin may help treat depression, a small study
finds: Benefits of the compound, found in psychedelic mushrooms, lasted a month
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/psilocybin-treat-depression-mushrooms-psychedelic
It’s Not Just Students Drowning in Debt. Colleges Are
Too! When universities have to borrow
just to keep the doors open, bankers and rating agencies call the shots.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/student-debt-university-credit/
Why the Left Should Ally With Small Business: It will
strengthen labor and help fight the increasing concentration of corporate
power.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/democrats-labor-business-monopoly/
Monopolies Threaten Not Just
Our Economy, But Our Liberty, Too.: A new book shows how the weapons that
conquered the old trusts can be drawn on Big Tech today.
How Robots Will Make Our Work
More Human: Automation is coming. It will improve your job.
Here’s How to Restore Trust in
the CDC: One strategy is from the Ebola outbreak in Liberia.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/11/heres-how-to-restore-trust-in-the-cdc/
The Pandemic Forced Joe Biden to Think Bigger. Meet the
Economists Who Got Him There. Fixing the
economy might be his biggest challenge if he wins, and the wonks shaping that
agenda offer clues for how he’ll do it.
What Biden Can Do to Boost the Economy Without Any Help
From Congress: It’s less than GOP cooperation would achieve, but it could still
make a huge difference.
“Everyone Is Tired of Always Staying Silent”: Inside a
Worker Rebellion in the Central Valley
Amid the pandemic, farmworkers are demanding a seat at
the table.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/12/farmworkers-labor-rebellion-worker-central-valley/
Jim Hightower: A Wealth of Riches, a Poverty of Morals
Sabotaging Democracy
https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/10/20/sabotaging-democracy
Save Family Farms, Because Wall Street Won't
https://www.populist.com/26.20.mcmillen.html
Farmers and Meatpackers Are Teaming Up: During the
pandemic and recession, farmers are realizing they have more in common with
immigrant meatpackers than agribusiness CEOs.
https://www.populist.com/26.20.SAnderson.html
Social Security’s Broken ‘Three-Legged Stool’
https://www.laprogressive.com/social-securitys-broken-three-legged-stool/
Hanging by a Thread: Trump threatens the retirement of
every American worker
https://www.populist.com/26.20.Conway.html
How Fascism Has Converged With Capitalism to Redefine
Government: Fascism is the absolute reign of neo-liberalism.
https://www.populist.com/26.20.Wolff.html
Shelter from the Machine: Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/92gpk9yf9780252043031.html
Bad Leadership Drove Schools into Crisis: COVID-19
exposed how important teachers are to students and families—but politicians and
policy leaders are still not listening to them.
https://progressive.org/magazine/bad-leadership-schools-crisis-bryant/
US companies no longer required
to pay COVID-related sick leave for workers — thanks to Mitch McConnell
https://www.rawstory.com/mitch-mcconnell/
A ‘Great Cultural Depression’ Looms for Legions of Unemployed
Performers: With theaters and concert halls shuttered, unemployment in the arts
has cut deeper than in restaurants and other hard-hit industries.
WOW! Now $2,600 Stimulus Checks Emerge, Will Trump Vote
Yes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwzKiNyTbkg&pbjreload=101
Trump can't let go of his quest for revenge against Republicans
who he believes betrayed him, even if it means blowing up the stimulus bill
Trump Launches Final Attack On Social Security Before
Leaving Office
Panic sets in as 12 million Americans lose unemployment
benefits: Two federal unemployment insurance programs end on Saturday. The
federal eviction moratorium is set to expire on New Year’s Eve if President
Trump does not take action.
John le Carré (1931-2020) on the Iraq War, Corporate
Power, the Exploitation of Africa & More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-Tq7xeSwRE
Trickle-Down Economics vs. Build-Up Economics
Long Christmas Nightmare for UPS, Postal Workers
It’s Time We Called It What It Is: Fascism. The epic thrash we’re witnessing is because
the forces of capitalism, seeing a terminal economic crash approaching, are
attempting to preemptively replace democracy with authoritarianism—fascism—so
that they can control the outcome.
Economic Update: Growing Independent Progressive Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWex9MxaiaI
Economist: $2,000 Stimulus Checks A ‘Much Needed Lift’
For Struggling Families | Katy Tur | MSNBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD-a2fFcdMM
What Happened to Organized Labor? | Robert Reich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwyvjvZO5Ls
Bernie Exposes GOP Hypocrisy on 'Socialism' with
Incredible Takedown of the GOP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awkoy3Sbx3w
Katie Porter BURIES Pharma CEOs During Hearing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2noBzB3QC4
Clearing the Wreckage at the Education Department: The
institution lies in ruins right when it’s needed most.
Poverty, Politics and Profit (full film) | FRONTLINE
Understanding Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
(TANF)
We are a group of chaplains who seek to build a freedom
church of the poor by pastoring, organizing, and empowering the leadership of
poor people in Grays Harbor County.
https://chaplainsontheharbor.org/
14 Policy Priorities to Heal the Nation: A Moral and
Economic Agenda for the First 100 Days
https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/resource/policy-and-legislative-priorities/
Schools Face A Massive Challenge To Make Up For Learning
Lost During The Pandemic
Watch live: More than half of distributed vaccines still
unused; DeWine gives update at 2 p.m.
Governor's update on state's battle against COVID-19 set
for 2 p.m. today
The power of the strike - Sara Nelson & Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUtyvboIZ2c
Unequal Covid-19 relief distribution - Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOgtw8nWXg0
Letter To American Workers
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/aug/20.htm
Philly’s protection of workers’ rights doesn’t make
business an underdog | Opinion
Access Matter Union
https://www.accessmattersunion.org/
The 10 most important figures in Philadelphia labor in
2020
https://www.inquirer.com/jobs/labor/labor-unions-workers-covid-philadelphia-2020-20210103.html
Capitalism is on life support - Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYrgFU-P63g
Ask Prof Wolff: The Political Case for Boycotts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrZ-KqxW7bs
Wolff Responds: How 'Progressive' Biden's Economic Team
is Not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXY-4rnpACg
Wolff Responds: DC Rage: More Coming Unless Basic
Economic Changes Made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvzgRCjN2NQ
Bernard Spain, 86, a Philly-based retail entrepreneur who
held the copyright for the smiley face
Is indoor dining safe? Five health experts weigh in. The social isolation and economic fallout is
real. But so is the risk of transmission.
Ask Prof Wolff: Recession: Capitalism not Covid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXJlu4pOrFo
Does Capitalism Actually Reduce Poverty? (with Richard
Wolff)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co4FES0ehyI
Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority Board
https://phdcphila.org/who-we-are/boards/philadelphia-redevelopment-authority-board/
Life In Limbo: Why Are So Many Americans Living
Paycheck-To-Paycheck?
Capitalism Hits Home: The Capitalist Problem with Sex
Education in the US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfk4P12pfXc
Prof. Wolff on the Capitol Hill Riot: Capitalism's Last
Gasp?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YzfwYjAKTs
Billionaires Want to Be the Gatekeepers of the Solar
System
Workers Resist Pandemic-Era Disaster Capitalism in
Ecuador: The Ecuador government took advantage of the pandemic to slash
workers’ rights.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/ecuador-workers-pandemic-disaster-capitalism
If We Don’t Break Up Big Tech, We’ll All Be Uber Drivers
Soon: Big tech is a common enemy for workers and small business owners—but some
on the Left just don’t see it.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/amazon-gig-workers-labor-rights-antitrust-laws-break-up-uber
Economic Update: Externalities & Capitalism's
Inefficiencies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld0YbG5WBNs
Wolff Responds: Who is the Working Class?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9bQpNp5oRs
Global Capitalism: US Capitalism’s Decline and Desperate
Efforts to Save It [January 2021]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EC1KMfUECw
AskProfWolff: How Socialists Win in Rural and Farm Areas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3JN2CaeVIo
Philadelphia school leaders confident schools
will reopen this year
Philadelphia School District
U.K. Businesses Drowning in Red Tape Under
Brexit Border Rules
The political lessons of the pandemic and the
fight for socialism in 2021
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/04/pers-j04.html
The pandemic windfall
https://theweek.com/print/515435/129325/pandemic-windfall
Record low flu cases show how COVID-19 is more contagious
and 'less forgiving,' experts say
Economic Update: Noam Chomsky on Prospects & Tasks as
2021 Begins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS8qzcGDP5U
Philadelphia Needs an Education Equity Fund
https://phillyjwj.org/our-work/fund-philly-schools/
Tell Comcast CEO Brian Roberts: Invest in quality free
internet access for families in need, not the police.
Comprehensive School Planning Review (CSPR) Process
https://www.philasd.org/schoolplanning/csprprocess/
PHILADELPHIA STUDENT UNION
https://www.phillystudentunion.com/
What Can Sanders Do as Budget Chair? – Rob Johnson and
Paul Jay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE6VD_B0-Q4
Wolff Responds: What Biden's Immediate Economic Program
Should be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7_z0DFzCng
Wolff Responds: Hard Lessons from Trump's Regime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyqiYpOmONM
Wolff Responds: What Biden's Immediate Economic Program
Should be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7_z0DFzCng
Richard Wolff: How Capitalism Exploits You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mI_RMQEulw
The Minimum Wage Debate Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL5VOorY9pw
The bill for Boris Johnson’s Brexit is coming in and it’s
punishingly steep
Why Unions Must Recommit to Expanding Their Base:
Demobilizing our base is never a good idea, especially when the right wing and
the Trump forces continue to mobilize.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-labor-unions-organizing/
The Case for Wide-Scale Debt Relief: Student loans,
medical debt, mortgage payments, rent, and municipal debt should all be reduced
or eliminated outright.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/biden-debt-loans-covid/
Democrats’ $50,000 student loan forgiveness plan would
make 36 million borrowers debt-free
Vietnam's First Automaker Claims It's Coming To America
With Electric Crossovers
Economic Update: The Economics Lesson Taught by the
Pandemic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcbAbwEFsk4
Nearly pain-free microneedle patch can test for
antibodies and more in the fluid between cells
Decades of government
demonization renders it unable to handle national threats - Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owj7J6Xmo3c&pbjreload=101
AskProfWolff: Why a Socialist
Party for the US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_OolStHDjw
How the United States Chose to
Become a Country of Homelessness: For months, our leaders have known that the
Covid-19 crisis could force millions of people from their homes. They decided
to let it happen.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/how-america-chose-homelessness/
Silver Lining
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/stock-market-covid-profit/
The Hidden Workers: How Silicon
Valley has tried to transform our understanding of work.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/silicon-valley-work/
A Blueprint for a Trust-Busting
Biden Presidency: The nation’s overlapping economic and political crises call
for a new crusade against the curse of bigness.
https://newrepublic.com/article/160646/biden-antitrust-blueprint-monopoly-busting
Making Sense of the Facebook
Menace: Can the largest media platform in the world ever be made safe for
democracy?
https://newrepublic.com/article/160661/facebook-menace-making-platform-safe-democracy
The Perpetual Disappointment of
Remote Work: What the troubled history of telecommuting tells us about its
future
https://newrepublic.com/article/160669/history-telecommuting-perpetual-disappointment-remote-work
Billion-Dollar Book Companies
Are Ripping Off Public Schools: They’ve always overcharged for books. Now
they’re demanding obscene costs for e-books.
https://newrepublic.com/article/160649/book-companies-follett-overcharge-public-schools
The Artist Isn’t Dead: Eulogies
for the creative class are premature. Art workers can organize—and survive.
https://newrepublic.com/article/160695/making-american-creative-class-book-review-artist-dead
The Urgent Case for Shrinking the Economy: Endless growth
is destroying the planet. We know how to stop it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/160692/less-is-more-degrowth-climate-change-book-review
Meritocracy on Trial: It undermines equality and the
common good.
https://newrepublic.com/article/160665/tyranny-merit-common-good-book-review-meritocracy-trial
The Breakaway
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n02/perry-anderson/the-breakaway
Insanely Complicated, Hopelessly Inadequate
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n02/paul-taylor/insanely-complicated-hopelessly-inadequate
The daily business briefing: January 28, 2021
Dow drops more than 600 points for its worst day since
October, S&P 500 goes red for the year
HOW RENTERS ARE FIGHTING TO STOP THE EVICTION MACHINE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9y_iG-L4Mk
AskProfWolff: ESOPS, WSDE and How to Fund Worker Co-ops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iklel6aRYow
Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before
the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years: The “King of Debt”
promised to reduce the national debt — then his tax cuts made it surge. Add in
the pandemic, and he oversaw the third-biggest deficit increase of any
president.
Job opportunity - Disaster Preparedness Manager
This is about debt relief and forgiveness [in] ancient
legal thought
https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?e=0ccb51ab82&u=6557fc90400ccd10e100a13f4&id=593efa3cc7
Oregon becomes 1st state to decriminalize cocaine,
heroin, meth, other drugs
Saagar Enjeti: Former SEC Commissioner Likens Redditors
To CAPITOL RIOTERS For Destroying Hedge Fund
Checks are being stolen from Postal Service mailboxes,
raising concerns about the blue boxes’ security
NEA’s top priorities in Congress
https://educationvotes.nea.org/2021/01/29/neas-top-priorities-in-congress/?j=6288931&sfmc_sub=752559515&l=59609_HTML&u=164519874&mid=1059756&jb=24032
Ro Khanna wants progressives to embrace patriotism,
aspiration, and experimentation: A conversation with the California congressman
about Biden's agenda, how progressives can use states as a policy laboratory,
and why American exceptionalism shouldn't be ceded to the right https://the.ink/p/rokhanna
TU Delft - Ambulance Drone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-rEI4bezWc
The Economy Is Improving Faster Than Expected, the U.S.
Budget Office Says: Large sectors of the economy are adapting to the pandemic
better than originally expected, and December’s economic aid package helped to
increase growth, adding another twist to stimulus talks.
Economic Update: Why Women Have Better Sex in Socialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUX4haBybaY
Wolff Responds: US and China at an Economic Crossroads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_i40NRwx0I
Joe Biden Fires More Of Trump’s Labor Appointees: The
president asked all members of the Federal Service Impasses Panel to resign.
Two declined and were fired.
Biden plan to expand child tax credit would help lift
millions of kids out of poverty
Jobless claims better than expected last week and lowest
in two months
We’ve built schools for a modern economy—but they
overlook the challenges of our modern democracy
How is the middle class faring? The Brookings Middle
Class Monitor answers this question with 12 metrics from the five key domains
for a good quality of life: Money, Time, Relationships, Health, and Respect.
WATCH LIVE: White House press secretary Psaki holds news
briefing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXeoaYLXQiM
Special Report: Who Really Controls the World?
https://www.outsiderclub.com/report/who-really-controls-the-world/1032
Wolff Responds: The Real Reason Why Lockdowns against
Covid-19 are Opposed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HczWiMjXPo
AskProfWolff: State-Owned Enterprises vs. Private
Enterprises
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXsxubF47_I
Land as a Commons: Building the New Economy. Private Sufficiency, Public Luxury: Land is
the Key to the Transformation of Society
https://centerforneweconomics.org/events/40th-annual-e-f-schumacher-lectures/
Building Bridges, Not Walking on Backs. Hawaiʻi State
Commission on the Status of Women, Department of Human Services, State of
Hawaiʻi, A Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for COVID-19
9 Freedoms of Health Justice
https://medium.com/@idember/9-freedoms-of-healthcare-justice-5077bdbff9f2
Medicare For All Explained
https://medicareforallexplained.podbean.com/e/how-medicare-integrated-hospitals/
MEDICARE FOR ALL: A CITIZEN’S GUIDE
https://medicareforallbook.com/
Pilot project in southwestern Vermont aims to break down
barriers to social services
Why U.S. Workers Need a $25 per Hour Minimum Wage
Economic Update: History's Lessons On Capitalism's
Failures: Germany & U.S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJm2tPbTsbI
The history of Germany's fall into fascism is worth
noting - Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dj0ZXdge_8
Boeing demonstrates the systemic issue of putting profit
over people - Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLsBVxV4Wh0
Virus relief plan places radically new emphasis on ending
child poverty in the U.S.
Fury at Gove as exports to EU slashed by 68% since
Brexit: Hauliers say Cabinet Office minister ignored warnings, amid fears that
worse is to come with introduction of import checks in July
Landlords are more than twice as likely to file for
evictions against Black renters in Philadelphia than against white renters, a
rate disproportionate to the share of Black renters in the city, according to a
report the Reinvestment Fund released Thursday. In a review of residential
eviction filings from 2018 through 2019, the annual filing rate for Black
Philadelphia renters was nearly 9%, while the rate for white Philadelphia
renters was about 3%.
These Landlords File the Most Evictions in D.C.: “They
essentially are using these cases as a debt collection mechanism.”
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/500983/these-landlords-file-the-most-evictions-in-d-c/
No Job, No Rent: Ten months of organizing the tenant
struggle
How to Build Tenant Organizing Capacity
U.S. CDC recommends schools reopen with masks and rigid
health protocols
Joe Biden stated that “there’s no evidence that raising
the minimum wage makes businesses go out of business”. Is this true?
Capitalism vs. socialism: The pandemic and the
global class struggle
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/02/01/pers-f01.html
Economic Update: The U.S. Political Right in Anger &
Mourning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnA5oIjqfLY
Left policy examples from
Berlin. Listen up, Mr. Biden - Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAFIgSVZRrY
Sneaky Reasons Fast Food Always Looks Better In The
Commercials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FCwr7cL4LY
The Lessons of Suffering in a Covid-19 World
California’s School Districts Rushing to Reopen – Why?
5 Things Every Family Should Know About Paying For
College
Pandemic Recession pain continues, with 3.5 million jobs
now gone for good
Wolff Responds: The Root of Texans' Frozen Suffering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-xKN32i9TM
AskProfWolff: The Tasks of Socialist/Labor Parties Today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lf_mBVlGOI
Should the Feds Guarantee You a Job? Not long ago, the question was rarely asked.
Now, politicians and economists of various stripes are willing to consider it.
Capitalism creates narcissism - Dr. Fraad & Julianna
Forlano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQZCivgF0oo
Older Boeing 777s grounded for inspections following
engine explosion over Denver
The Capitalist State (Part 1 of 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ooujjsoFc&list=PLeMYhhCCTFq1jGdOt6lcF8l7HQJwnJndD&index=10
Valerie Wilson: Director, Program on Race, Ethnicity, and
the Economy
https://www.epi.org/people/valerie-wilson/
Marc Bayard is an Associate Fellow and the director of
the Institute for Policy Studies’ Black Worker Initiative.
https://ips-dc.org/ips-authors/marc-bayard/
Rebecca Dixon, Executive Director, National Employment
Law Project
https://www.nelp.org/expert/rebecca-dixon/
Kyle Moore, Senior Policy Analyst, Joint Economic
Committee
https://equitablegrowth.org/people/kyle-moore/
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney Warns Of Possible $450
Million Budget Gap
Economic Update: Why Capitalism Reproduces Inequality
& a Solution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzmtFP7UZS8
Wolff Responds: Texas, Profits & Tragedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNyrCM-siMg
Capitalism Hits Home: Texas's
Energy Disaster: A Crisis of Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Yi3TnffqI
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: China's
Economic Rise - Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZ2N6stTE4
Prof. Richard Wolff: A
Post-Pandemic Economic Boom?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ITZ1O-Xc3g
A Trump judge’s order striking down the federal eviction
moratorium, briefly explained: The opinion is embarrassingly wrong.
SCHOOL IS THE OPPOSITE OF EDUCATION: a study to release
us from our confinement
https://njfhar.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/table-of-contents/
What Killed Single-Payer In California? If single-payer can't pass with Democratic
super-majorities in the Golden State, that raises serious questions about any
national effort.
https://newrepublic.com/article/143650/killed-single-payer-california
Texas is getting its water and
power back, but the 'real disaster' is still looming
Jeff Bezos would pay over $5 billion a year under
Warren’s wealth tax
Senate confirms Rouse as Biden's top economist
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/541302-senate-confirms-rouse-as-bidens-top-economist
The structures of capitalism, feudalism and slavery
reproduce inequality - Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrHQjvSnJqM
AskProfWolff: Marxism and the Slogan "Abolish
Billionaires"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTrDdOA40i4
Capitalism empowers the powerful to further enrich
themselves - Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI3GxdXW1AI
AskProfWolff: Why Rising Wages Do Not Necessarily Mean
Price Increases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgFEcl8gWn4
AskProfWolff: Worker Co-ops and Expansion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59j7sDY8gBs
Tax evasion on stocks has gone on long enough - Richard
Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPIvAGR0VrA
AskProfWolff: Does Capitalism Increase Wealth?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy-waA6vQnE
Economic Update: The System Implodes: Amazon, Evictions,
Tax Abuses, & Minimum Wages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc3MToWD69Y
AskProfWolff: A Mistaken Critique of Marx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci7WpDG_tlo
Chris Hedges: Papering Over the Rot. The staggering concentration of wealth at the
top has deformed our governing institutions — new window dressing will not end
oligarchy
https://www.mintpressnews.com/chris-hedges-papering-over-the-rot-wealth-inequality/274984/
CARE FOR ALL AGENDA: Care is the foundation of
our economy and society — the work that makes all other work possible. But just
as our physical infrastructure is crumbling, we suffer from a lack of
functioning care infrastructure in the United States, endangering the health,
safety, and well-being of the American people.
The GOP is having a change of heart on economics. It
could have implications for policymaking.
Deep economic hardship — rising income inequality and
escalating costs of health care and college tuition — could be driving the
shift.
What to know about at-home tests for colorectal cancers:
The only real downside to the two popular stool tests is that they need to be
done more often than a colonoscopy, experts say.
https://www.today.com/health/home-screenings-colorectal-cancers-what-know-t210505
Detecting Alzheimer’s Gets Easier with a Simple Blood
Test: New assays could reduce the need for costlier, more invasive brain scans
and spinal fluid measures
Redevelopment Without Displacement
Delaware Sens. Tom Carper, Chris Coons Join 6 Other
Democrats To Vote Against $15 Minimum Wage
On first day back in classrooms for Philly students, a
mix of excitement and fear
Philly City Council panel takes up challenge of
environmental clean-up in city schools
Senate minimum wage battle could play out in midterm
elections
Committee on Children and Youth 3-3-2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfKOnb-2ybU
Philly city council calls on Biden to 'cancel all student
loan debt' in first 100 days
Global Capitalism: March 2020-March 2021: Covid and the
Crash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE6s9HK_F6o
Financial crisis: 25 people at the heart of the meltdown
– where are they now?
The Clinton-Era Roots of the Financial Crisis:
Affordable-housing goals established in the 1990s led to a massive increase in
risky, subprime mortgages.
Rosa Luxemburg's warning for cooperatives - All Things
Co-op Clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82-pFHfwQxM
Raising the Minimum Wage Is Great for the Economy –
Especially If We Do It All the Time
New lung cancer screening guidelines double the number of
smokers eligible for annual scans: Anyone between ages 50 and 80 who has smoked
at least 20 “pack-years” and still smokes or quit within the last 15 years is
eligible for annual lung scans.
4 countries that prove money doesn’t always buy
happiness: Some places are more content than their GDP per capita would
predict.
Democrats want a wealth tax and Republicans want another
tax cut
Republicans Mock Rescue Plan While Pushing A Tax Cut For
The Richest: Even during a pandemic with high unemployment, Republicans are
still mad about the estate tax.
A chronicle of the British establishment’s flirtation
with Hitler: An unexpurgated edition of Chips Channon’s diaries has finally
been published
The billionaire boom
How Biden's Plan Could Help Reshape The Finances Of
American Families
What we do: For decades, we have worked to make service
to others an indispensable part of the American experience. Through our
nation’s most trying times, AmeriCorps has come together to help those in need.
https://americorps.gov/about/what-we-do
Fresh Focus #22: Fiber
https://blogs.va.gov/VAntage/85712/fresh-focus-22-fiber/
Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, Lou Ottens, dies age
94
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/11/europe/lou-ottens-dies-scli-intl/?hpt=ob_blogfooterold
For Loved Ones, supporting an addicted family member or
friend can be overwhelming, but there are many resources that can help you
understand and deal with a loved one’s addiction.
https://www.southjerseyrecovery.com/friends-family/
David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything
IRS failed to collect $2.4 billion in taxes from
millionaires
The Income and Wealth Inequality Crisis in America
https://www.budget.senate.gov/
Testimony before The United States Senate Committee on
the Budget on March 17, 2021 by John W. Lettieri, President & Chief
Executive Officer, Economic Innovation Group
U.S. Senate Budget Committee Hearing on the
Income Inequality Crisis in America on March 17, 2021, Testimony by Jennifer
Bates, Learning Ambassador at Amazon BHM1, Bessemer, Alabama
Is there and Inequality Crisis? Testimony by Scott
Winship, Resident Scholar and Director of Poverty Studies of American
Enterprise Institute, before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget on March
17, 2021
Testimony of Sarah Anderson, Global Economy Project
Director, Institute for Policy Studies, Before the United States Senate
Committee on the Budget on March 17, 2021
Testimony of Robert B. Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of
Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, and former Secretary of
Labor before the United States Senate Budget Committee Hearings on Widening
Inequality of Income and Wealth in America on March 17, 2021
Statement on the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/about/press/statement-on-the-american-rescue-plan-act-of-2021/
COVID-19 rental assistance programs
The Filibuster Is a Labor Issue: The PRO Act will not
pass unless we end the filibuster. Those two things are a package deal.
POPCORN FUNDRAISER FOR WB SAUL HOME AND SCHOOL
ASSOCIATION
https://poppinpopcornonline.com/store/store.php?sID=848446
The School District of Philadelphia
#PhillySchoolsDeserve: A March For PILOTs
https://actionnetwork.org/events/phillyschoolsdeserve-a-marchs-for-pilots
PHL REOPENING TRACKER
https://sites.google.com/view/phled-reopening-tracker/home?authuser=0
American Economic Liberties
Project
https://www.economicliberties.us/
A Paradigm Shift in
Macroeconomic Finance
Tax the Rich! How lies, loopholes, and lobbyists make the
rich even richer
Voter Turnout in Organisation for Economic Co- operation
and Development (OECD) Countries
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=448109665d774cd6a8702bfbd8cc7433
Economic Update: Finally a Tiny Sales Tax On Stocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZEX4fYZl4s
Wolff Responds: China Policy as Political Theater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bct6iAnK2bQ
Richard Wolff On China Becoming The World Economic Leader
& What It Means For The Average American
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a40Id6OZYyA
The Economics Out the Barrel of a Gun (w/ Richard Wolff)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7cJ2gSE4gM
Ask Prof Wolff: John Locke, Karl Marx: Capitalism's
Critics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S9s86da5cs
Ask Prof Wolff: China's Economic "Model"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R2POLykpVU
Amazon Exec Goes After Bernie & Gets Pummelled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H5mwK55yWo
Bernie Sanders sends POWERFUL message to Jeff Bezos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3FQwzcS7n0
Jobless claims decline to lowest level since the pandemic
began
https://www.theweek.com/speedreads/973960/jobless-claims-decline-lowest-level-since-pandemic-began
New York Reaches a Deal to Legalize Recreational
Marijuana
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/nyregion/ny-legalize-marijuana.html
Ben Fletcher and Multiracial Union Organizing in
Philadelphia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5lkuq0A9Ds
THE LAST BLOCKBUSTER Trailer (2020) Kevin Smith,
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov9ls_3tJ1Y
Economic Update: Dems' Self Promotion VS Hard Economic
Realities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSHHzFYc2Ic
Ask Prof Wolff: Did the US Slow Japan's Economy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JJEbwWrv94
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of
the People's Economy
https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/stephanie-kelton/the-deficit-myth/9781541736184/
A much-watched unionization drive at an Amazon warehouse
in Bessemer, AL will wrap up today. If more than half of the employees at the
site vote “yes” to joining the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union
(RWDSU), they will form the first group of organized Amazon workers in the US.
https://qz.com/emails/daily-brief/1989991/
How to Lose a Union Drive: The failed campaign to
organize Amazon workers in Bessemer, Ala., holds key lessons. Whether organizers
learn them is another matter.
“Its All Hush Hush Now”: Postmortem With a Bessemer
Amazon Worker
https://www.leftvoice.org/its-all-hush-hush-now-postmortem-with-a-bessemer-amazon-worker
‘Not a hope in hell’: Undercover investigation is latest
proof of racist housing discrimination
Getting to the core of HIV replication
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-core-hiv-replication.html
The minimum wage would be $44 an hour if it had grown at
the same rate as Wall Street bonuses
'$2.5 Trillion Theft': Study Shows Richest 1% of
Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From Bottom 90% in Recent Decades. The median U.S. worker salary would be around
twice as high today if wages kept pace with economic output since World War II,
new research revealed.
Philadelphia Passes Renters’ Right to Counsel
https://www.theregreview.org/2020/01/22/whillans-philadelphia-passes-renters-right-counsel/
Safe at Home – Fighting to protect Renters and Homeowners
https://www.pahouse.com/safeathome
The rich-poor gap in America is obscene. So let's fix it
– here's how: While working people toil, the richest have never have it so
good. It’s time to fight back – our democracy depends on it
Here's When VA Disability, Social Security, SSI
Recipients Will Get Their $1,400 Stimulus Checks
Houston-based Kinder Morgan among large corporations that
didn't pay federal taxes in 2020
New Zealand raises minimum wage – and hikes taxes on the
rich: The changes will be rolled out on Thursday, alongside smaller increases
in unemployment and sickness benefits.
Cargo Overboard, Intense Rolling: The Risks Of Fully
Loaded Mega-Container Ships
Sen. Kennedy: Texans Who Died During Power Failures Were
A Cost Of Doing Business
Do the Rich Support the Tax the Rich Campaign? Before New York’s budget deadline, a group of
progressives, calling for tax increases on the wealthy, phone-banked for
support among one-to-five-per-centers.
Los Angeles Uses Heavy-Handed Tactics in Clearing
Homeless Camp
Here are 7 necessary ways to tax the rich: Our unjust tax
system has allowed the richest Americans to cheat their way out of paying their
fair share
https://www.salon.com/2021/04/03/here-are-7-necessary-ways-to-tax-the-rich_partner/
Why Joe Biden’s Economic Plan Includes Home Health Care,
Not Just Roads And Bridges: He recognizes that investing in the “care economy”
can lift incomes and unleash productivity, just like traditional infrastructure
projects do.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-caregiving-infrastructure_n_60689a5bc5b6c55118b3e942
The Urgent Case for Shrinking the Economy: Endless growth
is destroying the planet. We know how to stop it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/160692/less-is-more-degrowth-climate-change-book-review
In the midst of an economic crisis, can 'degrowth'
provide an answer? Degrowthers are
susceptible to caricature – but their ideas raise important questions about
how, how much, and why we work
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/24/economic-crisis-degrowth-green-new-deal
Why A New Wave Of Economists Are Championing Slow
Economic Growth
https://wamu.org/story/20/02/12/why-a-new-wave-of-economists-are-championing-slow-economic-growth/
We’re Hurtling Toward Global Suicide: Why we must do
everything differently to ensure the planet’s survival
https://newrepublic.com/article/161575/climate-change-effects-hurtling-toward-global-suicide
Bernie Sanders pushes Biden to go big on infrastructure
as White House tells GOP to ‘come to the table’: Now chairman of influential
Senate Budget Committee, progressive senator argues Biden’s $2 trillion plan
must invest in ‘human infrastructure’
No Federal Taxes for Dozens of Big, Profitable Companies:
FedEx and Nike are among those found to have avoided U.S. tax liability for
three straight years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/business/economy/zero-corporate-tax.html
Chinese business in central Asia, how crony capitalism is
eroding justice
Economic Update: When Economic Systems Fail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujIBM04z-RE
Amazon is snapping up disused shopping malls and turning
them into fulfillment centers: "I see articles about Amazon building here
and Amazon building there. I’m not sure any of us really fully understand the
implications because it’s happening so so fast,” the resident of one such
neighborhood said.
Biden's Radical Break with Reaganomics | The Mehdi Hasan
Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dLF4L3J4Fw
Ask Prof Wolff: Chinese Defense Spending Games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7G6qixIfCY
The New Terrain Of Class Conflict In The United States
https://catalyst-journal.com/vol1/no2/new-terrain-of-class-conflict-moody
Biden administration slaps export controls on Chinese
firms for aiding PLA weapons development
Blowout in Bessemer: A Postmortem on the Amazon
Campaign. The warning signs of defeat
were everywhere.
THE AMERICAN JOBS PLAN IS THE PLAN WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR
Wolff Responds: Why Amazon Unionization Failed in Alabama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHGQhnYhwSg
Costco quietly nixes MyPillow products from its website
https://deadstate.org/costco-quietly-nixes-mypillow-products-from-its-website/
Moral Monday: Poverty (Un)Measured
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL_K0R9_dGs
John Oliver explores problems with U.S. nursing homes and
long-term care, suggests you pay attention
Ernest Mandel: a life for the revolution (ENGLISH
VERSION)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXFFcJQSLrk
Pennsylvania Nurses Near Their Breaking Point: Brandee
Brown and Chrissy Newton of Schuylkill Hospital Nurses United explore the
challenges of collective bargaining during a global pandemic.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/pennsylvania-nurses-near-their-breaking-point
Yes, Americans Owned Land Before Columbus: What you were
taught in elementary school about Native Americans not owning land is a myth.
The truth is much more complicated.
https://daily.jstor.org/yes-americans-owned-land-before-columbus/
For Native Americans, Land Is More Than Just the Ground
Beneath Their Feet
https://notevenpast.org/for-native-americans-land-is-more-than-just-the-ground-beneath-their-feet/
Chairwoman Maxine Waters negotiates unprecedented reform
package with the World Bank Group
The agreement reached between the House Financial
Services Committee and the World Bank Group paved the way for the U.S. to
support a $5.5 billion capital increase for the International Finance
Corporation (IFC), the Bank’s private sector arm, which the Committee
authorized in the recently passed CARES Act.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters Press Releases
https://waters.house.gov/media-center/press-releases
A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government
Segregated America
U.S. House of Representatives Passes the PRO Act
House Democrats Pass Bill That Would Protect Worker
Organizing Efforts
H.R.842 - Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2021.
Latest Action: Passed in the House on 03/09/21 and since 03/11/2021 has been in
the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/842
Professor Richard Wolff:
Dangerous Motives Behind US Aggression Toward Russia and China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlNPa2qDJbg
Is Scary Inflation Coming to
America Soon? (w/Richard Wolff)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K28qnGW6h4s
AskProfWolff: Comment on Modern
Monetary Theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etO6UqaDdRA
Talking w/ Richard Wolff: The Controversial Questions
(China, Revolution, Markets and more!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlpKzJZx9SM
Senator Ossoff Drops a Bombshell: “The 12 or 13 Largest
Banks” Got the Trillions from the Fed’s Repo Loans Last Year
Costly specialty drugs make up 40% of 2018 employer drug
spending despite few prescriptions
A ‘System of Espionage’ Reigned at Ikea, a French
Prosecutor Charges: In a case riveting national attention, Ikea France is
charged with violating privacy rights by surveilling unions, employees and
customers.
The Insane Logistics of Shutting Down the Cruise Industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4dOCfWlgBw
The Rise and Fall of American Malls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaZQPExRuCo
We have distributed over 18,000 computers to families,
schools, and organizations, veterans, first responders, and seniors worldwide.
Wed have transformed the lives of more than 80,000 people.
http://www.teamchildren.org/2020-computer-application.html
TRIAL IN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FUNDING LAWSUIT ON TRACK TO
BEGIN IN SEPTEMBER
How the Rich Mask Their Greed With Ostentatious
Philanthropy
36 civil rights organizations urge Biden to cancel
$50,000 in student debt per borrower
Mark Bittman’s Beef With Capitalism: On junk food, cash
crops, Oatly, and how to fix what’s broken in our food system
Insight: Tesla Drives on Autopilot Through Regulatory
Limbo
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2021/04/21/610827.htm
The Royal Rule of Love
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=james+2&version=MSG
Free School Lunches Extended Through June 2022
Economic Update: Workers Successfully Take Over Their
Workplaces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKGxxICPsOQ
Biden's Infrastructure Plan Tinkers Around the Edges -
Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4AkY4tlCjE
AskProfWolff: Wages in a Communist System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChyLxasyU_U
Ten Years Ago: Defense Spending [10th Anniversary of
Economic Update with Richard Wolff]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REdVpEE6aYQ
The Jewish – And Black Lives Matter – Case for Medicare
for All
FAITH ADVOCACY HELPS TAKE DOWN INDIANA’S MEDICAID WORK
REQUIREMENTS
https://sojo.net/articles/faith-advocacy-helps-take-down-indiana-s-medicaid-work-requirements
Two healthcare bills, H.R. 1384, the Medicare for All Act
of 2019 and H.R. 2452, the Medicare for America Act of 2019, ha
How more alcohol availability hurts finances for some
people
Texas House votes down budget amendment aimed at giving
health coverage to more uninsured Texans: The Texas Legislature has declined to
pass any broad expansion of state and federal health care coverage for
uninsured Texans since the Affordable Care Act of 2010 required states to
expand Medicaid — a provision later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Poverty soared to a pandemic high last month: Black
poverty was close to double that of the overall rate, and childhood poverty
soared to 17.4 percent.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/poverty-soared-pandemic-high-last-month-n1264692
Poor People’s Campaign announces plans for mass
assemblies in June 2021 & June 2022
CDC extends eviction ban through June as 30% of Pa.
households fall behind on rent
How Austerity Destroyed the Public Good: The decades-long
war on government has left struggling Americans to fend for themselves.
Not rich? Good news: You’re probably getting a tax
cut. President Joe Biden is preparing to
unveil another tranche of tax increase proposals, including hiking the top
marginal income tax rate and upping levies on capital gains.
California Enacts Law Requiring Certain Employers to
Offer Open Positions to Laid Off Employees in the Travel and Hospitality
Industries
If Corporations Are People, Tax Them Like People: Joe
Biden’s plan to raise capital gains taxes isn’t just reasonable. It’s downright
Reaganesque, my friend.
Democrats Outline 'Care Infrastructure' Plan, With Paid
Leave And Child Care
Why the US PRO Act Matters for the Right to Unionize:
Questions and Answers
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/04/29/why-us-pro-act-matters-right-unionize-questions-and-answers#
Congresswoman Dean Avoids Healthcare Reform Debate
Accepts Thousands in Campaign Donations from For Profit Health Insurers: Local
Unions Say Congresswoman Madeleine Dean Has Ignored Action On Healthcare,
Accepted Tens of Thousands In Campaign Cash from Insurance Companies
The Labor Battle for the Right to Pee: App delivery
workers for DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber Eats, and other tech giants are fighting
for a living wage, employment status, and the simple right to pee in privacy.
How will PA use its ARP funds?
https://krc-pbpc.org/research_publication/how-will-pa-use-arp-funds/
Restaurant Revitalization Fund: Learn How to Apply
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxi3EcB_BZ4
Restaurant Revitalization Fund Overview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybp3mVsvyoQ
Democrat Opposed to the PRO Act Was Showered With Cash
From Amazon Executives: Warner is one of just three Democrat who is not
co-sponsoring the PRO Act.
Organized Labor Puts Heat On Democratic Holdouts To
Support PRO Act: The AFL-CIO is spending more than 1 million dollars on TV and
radio ads aimed at moderate Democrats who haven’t signed on to the labor reform
proposal.
Billy Bragg, Lucy Dacus, Will Butler, and More Throw
Support Behind PRO Act With New Working Families Party Conversation Series
Inside the Koch Family’s 60-Year Anti-Union Campaign That
Gave Us Janus
https://inthesetimes.com/article/koch-anti-union-janus-supreme-court
There's no such thing as intellectual property
Intellectual Property and Pharmaceutical Greed
Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara illuminates what meritocracy does
to the soul
Public Wi-Fi can expose your data. Here’s how to stay
safe. The more you know, the more
prepared you'll be.
Welcome to the euphoria economy
Economic Refugees aka ‘The Homeless Problem’
On Biden’s American Families
Plan and Resisting the Conservative Politics of Care: The president’s
forthcoming proposal on care could both meaningfully address the current crisis
and open up space for more radical demands about work and family life.
Work Sucks: An exploration of how we work, why we work,
and when we might stop
In Defense of Doing Nothing: The cultural impetus to
hustle is built on decades-old political language. Why not try idleness
instead?
https://newrepublic.com/article/161106/defense-nothing
Right to Work on a Hot Planet: Labor and climate
campaigners quite literally share a common enemy. The name often ends in Koch
https://newrepublic.com/article/160885/right-to-work-hot-planet
The Essential Worker Strike Wave: More than 1,000
frontline workers are on strike as the pandemic rages in New York City. Could
this be a flash of what’s to come?
https://newrepublic.com/article/161019/covid-essential-workers-strike
The Age of the Disappearing Boss: From open office plans
to gig work cons and fast-food franchises, the question of who’s actually in
charge has been intentionally obscured.
https://newrepublic.com/article/161062/age-disappearing-boss
The Tyranny of the Pandemic Office: Why are workers being
called back for nonessential work in the middle of a pandemic? Because their
bosses can get away with it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/160794/pandemic-office-workers-elizabeth-anderson
The Perpetual Disappointment of Remote Work: What the
troubled history of telecommuting tells us about its future
https://newrepublic.com/article/160669/history-telecommuting-perpetual-disappointment-remote-work
Updates: Billionaire Wealth, U.S. Job Losses and Pandemic
Profiteers. Check back for our regular
updates on U.S. unemployment and billionaire wealth during the pandemic
emergency.
https://inequality.org/great-divide/updates-billionaire-pandemic/
The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts For the Rich
https://www.lse.ac.uk/International-Inequalities/Assets/Documents/2021-02-LSE.pdf
The macroeconomic implications of Biden’s $1.9 trillion
fiscal package
Moral policy = good economics. What’s needed to lift up 140 million poor and
low-income people further devastated by the pandemic
The Souls of Poor Folk Audit: Auditing America 50 Years
After the Poor People’s Campaign Challenged Racism, Poverty, the War
Economy/Militarism and Our National Morality
https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/resource/the-souls-of-poor-folk-audit/
Save SRO Hotels for the Homeless
Blaming the Workforce Is Easy and Useless
Biden and the Future of the Family
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/opinion/biden-family-aid.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion
How Amazon Strong-Arms Partners Using Its Power Across
Multiple Businesses: A heavyweight in retail, cloud computing, digital
advertising, streaming and smart speakers, the tech giant compels vendors in
one market to engage with it in others
Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia
https://www.habitatphiladelphia.org/bhvl21/
One-Tenth More Empathy to Create Real Change
Puerto Rico: Time for Statehood?
AskProfWolff: Latin America's Pink Tide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cggma2u3_S8
Ask Prof Wolff: How Anti-Capitalists Defeat "Capital
Flight"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XET40VvMrSk
Economic Update: A Green 3rd Party for the U.S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWNf2v1QwQw
Wolff Responds: The Splitting of US Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnNJAbsJG_I
China's Regulatory Crackdown Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJG21v7DS7I
Ask Prof Wolff: Capitalism and Racism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNuqjRqeIDw
Wolff Responds: What May Day Means and Abe Lincoln on
Labor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqI5BNNvYec
CELEBRATING MAY DAY w/ Richard Wolff & Meagan Day |
Weekends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ER0gy3zOSQ
Economic Update: How US Capitalism Uses Nationalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xe0twpIdPM
American Nationalism Is Rooted in the Protection of
American Capitalism - Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O87kbxUYOAk
Wolff Responds: Evaluating Biden's Shift Leftward
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GTPV4B6Q2M
Ask Prof Wolff: Defining Historical and Dialectical
Materialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGPSKZgFH70
The meaning of the May Day 2021 Online Rally
Socioeconomic deprivation modifies genetic influence on
higher education
The documentary The Great American Lie
http://therepresentationproject.org/film/great-american-lie/
Safe Harbor of Chester County looks forward to working
with you to provide shelter and encouragement to the homeless. If you need a bed, you must dial 211
first! Address: 20 N. Matlack St., West
Chester, PA 19380, Main: 610-692-6550
https://safeharborofgwc.org/staff-of-safe-harbor-chester-county/
The Labor Movement Should Take Up the Fight Against
Evictions
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/10/labor-movement-evictions-tenant-rights-housing
They Are Their Own Monuments: In two North
Philadelphia neighborhoods, many hands create homegrown art tributes to local
heroes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/arts/design/monument-lab-philadelphia.html
No Job, No Rent: Ten months of organizing the
tenant struggle
City Council should fight Kenney’s cuts to
eviction prevention budget | Editorial: Mayor Kenney’s budget proposes cutting
the Philadelphia Eviction Prevention Project's funding in half.
Organizing for Power: Workers Rising
Everywhere, the fourth instalment of Organizing for Power, kicks off on 18 May.
Registration closes on 3 May, so sign up today!
Stomp Out Slumlords Philly..
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nr6I_xpcCHiFAhZur9v5XhYw1rzCZUElvWkyKD4__xM/edit
The RV Lifestyle Is Exploding Due to COVID. Is
It Right for You? The culture around
recreational vehicle travel encourages connection, volunteerism, adventure
https://www.aarp.org/home-family/your-home/info-2021/rv-lifestyle-during-covid.html
It Took the Democrats Half a Century to Rediscover
Trickle-Up Economics: While Republicans cling to trickle-down delusions, Biden
is reviving a philosophy of growth that the party hasn’t embraced since LBJ.
Mayday For Humanity - National Day of Reason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBdaS9fe8IE
American Rescue Plan, American Jobs Plan, Housing
Crisis/Inflation Crisis Professor Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTijEy9H5zY
Capitalism Hits Home: The American Family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6_7gdoH0Y
Warren: Latest jobs report shows the need for universal
child care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qscpdkWYMz4
OPPOSING PRO ACT, UBER AND OTHER GIG COMPANIES SPEND OVER
$1 MILLION LOBBYING CONGRESS: After spending a historic sum against similar
worker protections in California, gig companies continue to lobby on labor
reform in Congress, new disclosures show.
How America Became the Money Laundering Capital of the
World: The U.S. is the venue of choice for cartels and kleptocrats. Now
lawmakers want to use an agency called FinCEN to do something about it.
Covid job losses hit working mothers
'It broke my heart': Woman in need of lifesaving surgery
denied due to lapse in insurance coverage
Midwest Dispatch: Universal Preschool and Community
College Now! Rather than invest in
families and public education, Minnesota and most other states have made
education at all levels an expensive, exclusive proposition.
World Press Freedom Day 2021: Information as a Public
Good
https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/worldpressfreedomday?mc_cid=bea065f982&mc_eid=645398ebef
The secret truth of the student debt crisis
Nothing Exposes the GOP’s Cruelty More Than Its War on
Medicaid Expansion
Wherever they hold power, Republicans work in lockstep to
deny their constituents life-saving health care.
The Psychedelic Revolution Is Coming. Psychiatry May Never
Be the Same.
Inflation speeds up in April as consumer prices leap
4.2%, fastest since 2008
Prof. Richard Wolff on Capitalist Cognitive Dissonance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeBkqVXFn2Q
Biden vs The Gig Economy? (w/Prof Richard Wolff)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqr4NcndOdg
Low Wages and Crappy Jobs Gave Us the Labor “Shortage”:
Republicans think overly generous unemployment benefits are keeping people from
working. Biden might be taking the bait.
Are We Headed Toward a Crisis? Richard Wolff on May Day
and Bidenomics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J8mFmIp34c
Economic Update: Capitalism vs. Democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdPPfB636jg
Capitalism Contradicts Democracy - Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgRYAMRsxcY
Ask Prof Wolff: COVID and Capitalism's Internal
Contradictions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZud__t5Xo
Global Capitalism: Biden’s Economic Plans and Likely Results
[May 2021]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9lWJB1jPVQ
Editor’s letter, The Week, 05/14/2021, The stuff of
science fiction is once again becoming the stuff of reality
https://theweek.com/print/515450/134865/article
The U.S. economy is experiencing a powerful rebound
https://theweek.com/print/515450/134875/economy-experiencing-powerful-rebound
It’s time to fully reopen schools
https://theweek.com/print/515450/134921/time-fully-reopen-schools
Smoking: Should menthols be banned?
https://theweek.com/print/515450/134947/smoking-should-menthols-banned
Free speech: Drawing a line for students
https://theweek.com/print/515450/134952/free-speech-drawing-line-students
An effective malaria vaccine at last?
https://theweek.com/print/515450/134977/effective-malaria-vaccine-last
Human-monkey hybrids
https://theweek.com/print/515450/134980/humanmonkey-hybrids
Sore muscles? Don’t use ice
https://theweek.com/print/515450/134985/sore-muscles-dont-use-ice
Soccer dangers for girls
https://theweek.com/print/515450/134987/soccer-dangers-girls
The beef beef: Epicurious puts burgers and steaks on
notice
https://theweek.com/print/515450/135048/beef-beef-epicurious-puts-burgers-steaks-notice
Capitalism on a Ventilator: The Impact of COVID-19 in
China & the U.S.
I Was a Facebook Content Moderator. I Quit in
Disgust. Facebook is driving content
moderators toward despair through mismanagement, vague policies, and overwork.
I’d had enough.
Ask Prof Wolff: Wages, Prices & Inflation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69nokG4dP1A
Wolff Responds: Labor Shortage is Fake News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO_Vx1HFfPk
Richard Wolff: Jobs Report Is Sign Of Economy IN TROUBLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txIuZ_v1PWA
Economic Update: Valuing Work By Women of Color
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFkj8sxorCM
Trump's billionaire education secretary is accused of
denying student-loan forgiveness to thousands. Now she'll testify over it.
Opioid Use Disorder | Penn Medicine's Experts Discuss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOO-fK5mGe8
We Found Joe Biden’s Secret Venmo. Here’s Why That’s A
Privacy Nightmare For Everyone. The
peer-to-peer payments app leaves everyone from ordinary people to the most
powerful person in the world exposed.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/we-found-joe-bidens-secret-venmo
Unemployment Benefits Didn’t Cause a “Labor Shortage”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWuPON268nI
Articles by Matt Bruenig
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/author/matt-bruenig/
What Michal Kalecki Meant by Full Employment
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2021/05/12/what-michal-kalecki-meant-by-full-employment/
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: The Legitimation Crisis of
the late 1960s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGj2coa78x4
Capitalism Hits Home: Violence - A Shield for Emotional
Vulnerability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkrBloxNyj4
SCHOOL FUNDING IN PA: WE MUST DO BETTER
Summary: An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949
(P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in reimbursements by
Commonwealth and between school districts, further providing for student-weighted
basic education funding.
https://legiscan.com/PA/bill/HB1167/2021
Regular Session 2021-2022: House Bill 1167. Short Title: An Act amending the act of March
10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, in
reimbursements by Commonwealth and between school districts, further providing
for student-weighted basic education funding.
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billInfo/billInfo.cfm?sYear=2021&sInd=0&body=H&type=B&bn=1167
Jeff Bezos became even richer thanks to Covid-19. But he
still won't protect Amazon workers
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