Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Economics and Corruption and Healthcare and Education related links 091521

 

The Billionaire Space Race Is a Tragically Wasteful Ego Contest: Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk are spending billions to go to space, using money and resources that belong to the people.

https://newrepublic.com/article/162928/richard-branson-jeff-bezos-space-blue-origin?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

A Sign That the Labor Shortage Is Vanishing: Republican-led states have reduced unemployment benefits, and workers are quitting their jobs at a nearly pre-pandemic rate.

https://newrepublic.com/article/162936/labor-shortage-ending-quits-rate?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Gravitas: 37 American states sue Google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJu5LWkt29w

 

The Day That Richard Nixon Changed U.S. Economic Policy Forever: Fifty years ago, in response to rising inflation, he rejected several long-standing practices. His Keynesian turn holds lessons for today’s economy.

https://newrepublic.com/article/162931/richard-nixon-changed-us-economic-policy-forever?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Caregiving costs, fraud, etc.

https://view.email.aarp.org/?qs=da1bd3e44735a825c20b444d6c0a225977692fa8cb82eb0dcba83c6df9771b8854cf49b99d01180d7755b53626854de9bb2ca7c12dd6b41fd36590d1e00bee768dab56561c8d0a7c59c00b0c7325dd1c

 

How to Achieve Sustainable Remote Work: Companies must move away from surveillance and visible busyness, and toward defined outcomes and trust.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/how-to-achieve-sustainable-remote-work?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_071021&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5f108bc3a1573c18f411ce44&cndid=61660189&hasha=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496&hashb=d66eda798d13296a4f50fdc8f2311240bd954c47&hashc=b797ec0058e74865fbe009ec53ab7d2888433ec403939f5df0581e6b656d5101&esrc=subscribe-page&mbid=CRMNYR012019&utm_content=A&utm_term=TNY_Daily

 

FACT SHEET: Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/07/09/fact-sheet-executive-order-on-promoting-competition-in-the-american-economy/?mc_cid=60c939920b&mc_eid=645398ebef

 

Housing Insecurity and Efficacy of COVID Relief: View the Discussion

https://www.laprogressive.com/housing-insecurity/?utm_source=LA+Progressive+NEW&utm_campaign=24713ab2ef-LAP+News+-+20+April+17+PC_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_61288e16ef-24713ab2ef-286987487&mc_cid=24713ab2ef&mc_eid=dd9216c814

 

Biden Wants to Tame Big Tech With a Thousand Paper Cuts: The Democrats’ plan to take on Big Tech is divided between slipshod legislative and regulatory efforts. Can small bites get the job done, or do we need more sweeping proposals?

https://newrepublic.com/article/162940/biden-executive-order-big-tech-monopoly?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Who Gets Left Behind as We “Return to Normal”?  For people with compromised immune systems, “long Covid,” and other disabilities, the pandemic doesn’t end with vaccination.

https://newrepublic.com/article/162872/long-covid-disabled-pandemic-return-normal?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sold_short

 

Biden launches assault on monopolies: The sweeping executive order takes aim at concentrated markets in industries including agriculture, airlines, broadband and banking — and includes efforts to lower drug prices and protect privacy.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/08/biden-assault-monopolies-498876

 

Biden fires Social Security chief

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/andrew-saul-social-security-/2021/07/09/c18a34fa-df99-11eb-a501-0e69b5d012e5_story.html

 

Trump Appointee Who Threatened to Keep Working Despite Biden Firing Whines: I Can’t Log In

https://www.thedailybeast.com/andrew-saul-who-vowed-to-ignore-firing-from-biden-whines-that-he-cant-log-in

 

The firing of a wretched Trump appointee opens the door to expanding Social Security

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-07-13/trump-social-security-ouster?_amp=true&fbclid=IwAR33Ut7hMwMVYcvTkG5MSUNR_xS_IxbdDSsl8cvBvkj2-b1K67oWfsjZNwQ

 

U.N. warns 10% of world undernourished as hunger "shot up" amid COVID pandemic

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/un-warns-world-hunger-worsened-during-covid-pandemic/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=123949253&fbclid=IwAR1sBFH5JTUYGJZQWlYgAmHjcKYh7fNJRBjgSOYLu88_xpkfpZCn3y7RLjQ

 

Meet MacKenzie Scott, Our New Good Billionaire: With Bill Gates in disgrace, oligarchy's apologists have been pushing Scott as a replacement. But is Jeff Bezos's ex-wife really an improvement?

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/mackenzie-scott-billionaire-philanthropy/?utm_source=one-signal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2021-07-12

 

Campaign to Rein in Mega IRA Tax Shelters Gains Steam in Congress Following ProPublica Report

One proposal would ban the kinds of transactions that helped Peter Thiel amass $5 billion in his Roth; another would cap how much could be saved tax-free in these retirement accounts. But two unrelated bills could undermine those efforts.

https://www.propublica.org/article/campaign-to-rein-in-mega-ira-tax-shelters-gains-steam-in-congress-following-propublica-report?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#1083950

 

What the $%&! Is Going On at the FDA?  Experts want to know why the agency approved a questionable Alzheimer’s drug but has withheld full approval from Covid vaccines.

https://newrepublic.com/article/162975/alzheimers-fda-covid-vaccines?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Nevada Bill To Legalize Marijuana Consumption Lounges Heads To Governor’s Desk

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/nevada-bill-to-legalize-marijuana-consumption-lounges-heads-to-governors-desk/

 

Marijuana Laws by State in 2021: A Legal Weed Map and Short Guide to Regulation.  Marijuana Legality by State: A Comprehensive Interactive Map

https://www.oberk.com/marijuanalawsbystate

 

Economic Update: Inflation & Labor Shortage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERxbkHYWgMY

 

The Social Consequences of Raising Prices - Richard D Wolff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeOdmy-BfEM

 

After COVID, Capitalism Squeezes the Working Class to Get Them Back To Work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd2JlIb_E0g

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Why So Many Different Socialisms?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W9hETLPkmY

 

Global Capitalism: The Challenge of China [July 2021]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpD0Im5d9-c

 

An Unapologetic ‘Tax the Rich’ Message Is the Key to Passing the Democratic Budget Plan: “The wealthy and large corporations [must pay] their fair share of taxes, so that we can protect the working families of this country,” says Bernie Sanders.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-3-5-trillion-budget/?utm_source=one-signal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2021-07-15

 

Who’s Afraid of Lina Khan? (All the Right People.)  The new FTC commissioner has the authority, instincts, and acumen to meaningfully rein in the power of companies like Facebook and Amazon. That’s why they hate her.

https://newrepublic.com/article/162989/amazon-facebook-antitrust-lina-khan-big-tech?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Omaha Adopt a Teacher group grows in support of educators, students

https://www.wowt.com/2020/07/26/omaha-adopt-a-teacher-group-grows-in-support-of-educators-students/

 

WILL THE SCHOOL DISTRICT SQUANDER ITS $1.1 BILLION STIMULUS WINDFALL?  A history of management snafus under Superintendent Bill Hite can only make you wonder if we’re able to seize this potentially transformative moment

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/school-district-squander-billions/

 

IT’S TIME TO RE-ENROLL ADULTS, INCLUDING JOHN KRUK, IN HIGHER EDUCATION: 36 million Americans have earned some college credits but no degree. A longtime college president says it’s time to honor what they have learned in life and help them attain degrees.

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/re-enroll-adults-high-ed/

 

Don’t Let the Rhetoric Fool You—Charter Schools Often Aren’t Public: If they were, they wouldn’t be so inaccessible.

https://progressive.org/public-schools-advocate/charter-schools-often-arent-public-welner-mommandi-210717/?mc_cid=68d7ad39d7&mc_eid=645398ebef

 

Public Schools Advocate: A Project of The Progressive Magazine

https://progressive.org/public-schools-advocate/AboutPSA?mc_cid=68d7ad39d7&mc_eid=645398ebef

 

Why Democrats Should Fear Inflation: We can debate its economic harm, but its political damage to progressive governance is indisputable.

https://newrepublic.com/article/162986/consumer-price-inflation-2021-democrats?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

The Problem of the Small Landlord and Other Pandemic Relief Traps: Landlords claiming extreme hardship are blaming eviction moratoriums for their troubles. These are misdirections we have to reject while rebuilding from the pandemic.

https://newrepublic.com/article/162991/eviction-moratorium-small-landlords-rent-debt-pandemic?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

TALKING SOCIALISM | Interviewing Jacobin‘s Bhaskar Sunkara

https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/summer-2021/sunkara/

 

Lost in the Wilderness: Can the White Working Class Return Home?

https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/summer-2021/can-the-white-working-class-return-home/

 

“Like Standing Rock, but more prepared.” Minnesota DSA Stands Up Against Line 3

https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/summer-2021/minnesota-dsa-against-line-3/

 

For a Socialist Tomorrow: A Report on 2019-2021.  From the National Political Committee

https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/summer-2021/for-a-socialist-tomorrow-a-report-on-2019-2021/

 

LIVES ON THE LINE | A Restaurant Worker’s Story

https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/summer-2021/a-restaurant-workers-story/

 

Why Are All My Trans Friends Socialists?

https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/summer-2021/transgender-socialism/

 

BOOK REVIEW | Black Marxism Today

https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/issues/summer-2021/black-maxism-today/

 

THIS TIME FACEBOOK HAS GONE TOO FAR!

https://www.cajunscomments.com/this-time-facebook-has-gone-too-far/?fbclid=IwAR3IIs0ojfrb3DCbxw47kU4W8Wot_6I38mDUVc26yVsfQiPDlxewN78pvEw

 

Beyond Big Meat: Just six companies control two-thirds of the nation's meat production. It's time to end their monopoly of our food supply.

https://newrepublic.com/article/158679/beyond-big-meat-coronavirus-pandemic-meatpacking-monopoly?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Global meat industry ‘using tobacco company tactics’ to downplay role in driving climate crisis, investigation claims.  Exclusive: Meat companies are routinely underreporting emissions, undermining climate science and casting doubt on plant-based alternatives, an investigation claims

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/meat-dairy-industry-greenwashing-climate-b1884769.html

 

Oil producing nations agree deal to control prices

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57882449?fbclid=IwAR0NIv843KC6Qcc5PF-VXQXFt6JjhBaSjepTCbDtBkVV7BQATYVf5_23_4k

 

Buying Drugs From Canada Won’t Solve America’s Obscene Health Care Costs: Proposals to lower drug prices through importation are wildly popular but also completely inadequate.

https://newrepublic.com/article/162998/buying-drugs-canada-wont-solve-americas-obscene-healthcare-costs?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Joel Osteen’s Obscene Lifestyle Condemned After Church Receives Millions In Bailout Loans

https://brobible.com/culture/article/joel-osteen-lifestyle-bailout-loans/?fbclid=IwAR3IzQyr4TrIRhBOKU_fRxwxfRHwn6XTcf1w5QJYmnGgd7dww-ANJewW-NY

 

The Race to Leave Planet Earth: Not just billionaires but private companies and a growing number of nations are, somewhat abruptly, competing to get into space.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/26/the-race-to-leave-planet-earth?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Magazine_Daily_NonSubs_071921&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5f108bc3a1573c18f411ce44&cndid=61660189&esrc=&utm_term=TNY_Magazine_Daily_NonSubs

 

Dow tumbles 700 points for its worst drop since October as investors fear a Covid resurgence

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/18/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html

 

The covid recession is officially over, and it was the shortest on record

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/19/economy/recession-end-covid-nber/index.html

 

Why Does Congress Let the Ivy League Operate as a Monopoly?  A little-known law allows the most prestigious schools in America to cap the aid they offer to the most sought-after applicants, a provision that harms students of color.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163001/congress-let-ivy-league-operate-monopoly?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Michael Brooks on Why the War on the Poor Must End

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/07/michael-brooks-food-stamps-one-year-tribute

 

Americans’ Medical Debts Are Bigger Than Was Known, Totaling $140 Billion: A new study finds that health care has become the country’s largest source of debt in collections. Those debts are largest where Medicaid wasn’t expanded.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/20/upshot/medical-debt-americans-medicaid.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210721&instance_id=35833&nl=the-morning&regi_id=168579403&segment_id=63984&te=1&user_id=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496

 

More Reasons to Hate the Dentist: Is the field of dentistry rife with overtreatment?

https://newrepublic.com/article/163012/reasons-hate-dentist-malpractice

 

Bernie Sanders chairs hearing on declining life expectancy in America | FULL HEARING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_LjAC4sfgg

 

MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We’re on Schedule.  A 1972 MIT study predicted that rapid economic growth would lead to societal collapse in the mid 21st century. A new paper shows we’re unfortunately right on schedule.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xw3x/new-research-vindicates-1972-mit-prediction-that-society-will-collapse-soon

 

Schizophrenia linked to marijuana use disorder is on the rise, study finds

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/22/health/marijuana-schizophrenia-study-wellness/index.html

 

Tokyo’s Olympics Have Become the Anger Games: The Olympics are supposed to be a symbol of global togetherness, but Tokyo’s are shaping up to be the least wanted in history.

https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/tokyos-olympics-have-become-the-anger-games?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_072221&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5f108bc3a1573c18f411ce44&cndid=61660189&hasha=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496&hashb=d66eda798d13296a4f50fdc8f2311240bd954c47&hashc=b797ec0058e74865fbe009ec53ab7d2888433ec403939f5df0581e6b656d5101&esrc=subscribe-page&mbid=CRMNYR012019&utm_content=B&utm_term=TNY_Daily

 

Drug Distributors and J.&J. Reach $26 Billion Deal to End Opioid Lawsuits: The agreement would allow funds to begin flowing from the companies to states and communities to pay for addiction and prevention services.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/21/health/opioids-distributors-settlement.html

 

Frito-Lay had workers move the dead body of a coworker and keep working, claims striking employee

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/22/2041297/-Frito-Lay-had-workers-move-the-dead-body-of-a-coworker-and-keep-working-claims-striking-employee?detail=emaildkre

 

Padilla: 'Fundamentally wrong' to deem undocumented workers essential yet deny them protections

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/22/2041287/--This-is-our-moment-to-pass-legalization-farmworkers-and-advocates-say-following-Senate-hearing?detail=emaildkre

 

Jeff Bezos, Space Marxist?  The Amazon founder revived the theory of surplus value.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163020/jeff-bezos-space-marxist?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Voters Prevail In Missouri: 275,000 To Gain Access To Health Care

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/22/1019401988/voters-prevail-in-missouri-275-000-to-gain-access-to-health-care?fbclid=IwAR3L9k5_qMv67oNTL2xtyadVw0qdUTweh9q89mETjbuUXCnuAMZGAJXhWHs

 

David Van Deusen, PRESIDENT VERMONT STATE LABOR COUNCIL, AFL-CIO. 

vtdavidvandeusen@gmail.com , (802) 522-5812

https://vt.aflcio.org/about-us/david-van-deusen

 

Global Capitalism: The Challenge of China - July 14, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpD0Im5d9-c&t=1819s

 

Professor Richard Wolff: This Economy Cannot Survive The Delta Variant – July 15, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ1j3QVBb88

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Criticizing Critics of Marx's Labor Theory of Value - July 16, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhJ6y-PzclE

 

Wolff Responds: Not Labor Shortage but CLASS Struggle – July 17, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnK-9b08yjs

 

China's Transformation from Poverty to Economic Power - Richard D Wolff - July 18, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuKa99i94NI

 

Economic Update: The Challenge of Progressive Unionism – July 19, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_lqxS-xUsQ

 

Shocking Statistics on the Rising Cost of Living in the US - Richard Wolff – July 20, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMp6pCpsSOg

 

Wolff Responds: Food Prices Rise but not $7.25 Minimum Wage – July 21, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpMds0YjLn8

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Lessons for the Left from the 20th Century - July 21, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byPxfDTvNLE

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Demonizing Socialists – July 23, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qjYy-cIeuM

 

The Corporate Surveillance Industry Has Become a Global Monster: Companies like Israel’s NSO Group have revolutionized how governments spy on their citizens. Can they be tamed?

https://newrepublic.com/article/163010/corporate-surveillance-industry-become-global-monster?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

The Infrastructure Bill Needs to Succeed Where Tech’s Utopian Promises Failed: Decades of disruption made Silicon Valley rich, but its ideology of technological solutionism failed the rest of us. It’s time to reinvest in public goods.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163033/infrastructure-bill-public-investment-big-tech-failure?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Michael Pollan’s All-Natural Highs:Both coffee and opium come from plants. Why embrace one and not the other?

https://newrepublic.com/article/163038/michael-pollans-natural-highs-mind-plants-book?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

We’ll Never Fix Hospitals’ Price Gouging If We Don’t Break Their Stranglehold on Congress: Rather than force hospitals to be up front with patients about their costs, we should strip them of the power to set them.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163061/hospital-price-transparency-medicare-for-all?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Chris Hedges | The HORRIFIC State of the American Empire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXYsGuBdzM4

 

How Do You Convince People to Eat Less Meat?  A recent fracas in Spain shows that simply telling people to reduce meat consumption in the name of climate and personal health won’t work.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163079/convince-people-eat-less-meat?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Los Angeles Liberals’ Brutal Campaign Against the Homeless: Affluent Southern Californians are funding a massive effort to criminalize the unhoused and defeat their few remaining political allies.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163141/los-angeles-homeless-garcetti-katzenberg?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

The Congressman Behind the House Infrastructure Bill Is Miffed About the Bipartisan Deal: Peter DeFazio, who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is frustrated by the way the Senate has warped his original bill.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163149/peter-defazio-infrastructure-bipartisan-deal?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Long Drives, Costly Flights, And Wearying Waits: What Abortion Requires In The South

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/08/02/1022860226/long-drives-costly-flights-and-wearying-waits-what-abortion-requires-in-the-sout?fbclid=IwAR19yX3MguArrjjP5jdcC--h09fEcJ8ywryb4zWbU-63FF6ViRhYuu5ArcE

 

The Eviction Moratorium Is a Sitting Duck: Dithering Democrats have left vulnerable renters in the worst possible place: at the mercy of the Supreme Court.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163168/renters-eviction-moratorium-biden-kavanaugh?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Jennifer O'Gara from Horsham on why she supports Medicare For All!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNKJMbu7uB8

 

Trump to object to release of tax returns -lawyer

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-object-release-tax-returns-lawyer-2021-08-02/?fbclid=IwAR3E6Iw16wI1rrOqMbiSbLoHsG_UZb9w6oK5CxweDCSwxKqBuUfLc_MdRho

 

U.S. Ranks Dead Last for Healthcare Among 11 Wealthy Countries

https://www.democracynow.org/2021/8/5/headlines/us_ranks_dead_last_for_healthcare_among_11_wealthy_countries

 

Richard Trumka Was Forthright Til the End: The late AFL-CIO president’s breathtaking Obama speech in 2008 was just one of countless times when he spoke a courageous truth.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163181/richard-trumka-dead-forthright-til-end?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

The Impossibility of the Tesla Tell-All: A new book examines the tension between Elon Musk’s personality and the business of making cars. But what if there is none?

https://newrepublic.com/article/163174/impossibility-tesla-tell-all-elon-musk-tim-higgins-review?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Why Are Democrats Inviting Republicans to Hold Them Hostage Over the Debt Ceiling?  Those nostalgic for the Obama years may soon get to relive the toxic brinkmanship that periodically threatened the global economy during that era.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163180/democrats-debt-ceiling-treasury-default-mcconnell?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

The New Economics Is Here: Legislative compromise is always disappointing, but we’re really moving toward an economy that’s more caring, more green, and more equal.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163154/democrats-infrastructure-spending-new-economics?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Three Big Takeaways from a Strong July Jobs Report: The Biden economy is growing, but there’s a great need, and a great potential, for further job growth.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/three-big-takeaways-from-a-strong-july-jobs-report?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_080721New%20Campaign&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5f108bc3a1573c18f411ce44&cndid=61660189&hasha=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496&hashb=d66eda798d13296a4f50fdc8f2311240bd954c47&hashc=b797ec0058e74865fbe009ec53ab7d2888433ec403939f5df0581e6b656d5101&esrc=subscribe-page&mbid=CRMNYR012019&utm_content=A&utm_term=TNY_Daily

 

The 'retail apocalypse': Big retailers and malls were already struggling when the pandemic hit. Now they’re shuttering stores at alarming rates.

https://theweek.com/feature/briefing/1003385/the-retail-apocalypse?utm_campaign=afternoon_newsletter_20210807&utm_source=afternoon_newsletter&utm_medium=email&refid=%7EREFERENCE_ID%7E

 

The culture war goes global

https://theweek.com/culture/1003370/the-culture-war-goes-global

 

Is the housing boom now a housing bubble?  And more of the week's best financial insight

https://theweek.com/feature/1003387/is-this-now-a-housing-bubble?utm_campaign=afternoon_newsletter_20210807&utm_source=afternoon_newsletter&utm_medium=email&refid=%7EREFERENCE_ID%7E

 

Education experts are 'deeply concerned' about a plunge in kindergarten enrollment

https://theweek.com/coronavirus/1003474/education-experts-deeply-concerned-pandemic-related-disenrollment-concentrated?utm_campaign=afternoon_newsletter_20210807&utm_source=afternoon_newsletter&utm_medium=email&refid=%7EREFERENCE_ID%7E

 

The USPS awarded a $120 million contract to a company with financial ties to the postmaster general

https://theweek.com/post-office/1003471/the-usps-awarded-a-120-million-contract-to-a-company-with-financial-ties-to-the?utm_campaign=afternoon_newsletter_20210807&utm_source=afternoon_newsletter&utm_medium=email&refid=%7EREFERENCE_ID%7E

 

How Does Amazon End?  Warehouse workers in Bessemer may get a union do-over, the Teamsters have the commerce behemoth in their sights, and antitrust momentum may be growing in Biden’s administration. What now?

https://newrepublic.com/article/163193/amazon-union-bessemer-antitrust-nlrb-election?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Here's What's In The Democrats' $3.5 Trillion Budget Blueprint

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/14/1016052307/democrats-budget-deal-would-invest-in-the-child-tax-credit-health-care-and-clima?fbclid=IwAR04nD5sYP5sx2Gt6Ot6goZVEJ2yA0OPDAhEJEl0Qt0uRiEY6Q2s67wOcCs

 

The Truth Behind the Great Bacon Shortage of 2022: Panic over California’s pork reform exposes everything wrong with the meat industry.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163225/bacon-shortage-california-meat-industry?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Biden Gets His Bipartisan Victory. Now the Hard Part.  The Democrats somehow convinced enough Republican senators to support a $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Now they have to go to war to pass a $3.5 trillion reconciliation package.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163228/senate-passes-infrastructure-bill-reconciliation-next?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Living Nowhere: As more people are giving up traditional addresses for life on the road, some find themselves wondering if they escaped the grind or just found a new one.

https://newrepublic.com/article/161807/van-life-nomadic-living-housing-affordability?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

CDC sounds alarm: 2 dead in US from disease never seen outside tropics

https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2336478411380/cdc-sounds-alarm-2-dead-in-us-from-disease-never-seen-outside-tropics?s=oldSite&ss=a8

 

Joe Manchin’s Lame Reason for Opposing More Infrastructure Spending: Voting down the country’s best shot at climate legislation because you’re worried about inflation is pretty twisted.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163242/joe-manchin-climate-infrastructure-inflation?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Wiretaps for Facebook? Maryland authorities are getting permission to tap digital and social media apps.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-cr-facebook-wiretap-20210809-ulpifhvowrdrvnivqq75j5floi-story.html

 

Economic Update: Best Years of U.S. Lie in its Past 08/02/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp724UbMtrQ

 

Professor Richard Wolff | The HISTORICAL ROOT of "Post-Modernism" & "Neo-Marxism" 08/02/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Qg_QBhxO4

 

Professor Richard Wolff | What Was HIDDEN FROM US About Socialism 08/02/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJRguigNpRo

 

Richard Wolff: Capitalism is holding "all of us hostage" 08/04/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP22iYjQswM

 

Wolff Responds: The Curse of Billionaires 08/05/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5E8o_DGz_Q

 

Responding to Economist's Idea: "Workers Aren't Worth $15/Hour" - Richard D Wolff 08/05/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=231LPkCeZ4M

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Tribalism - How Capitalism Divides Us 08/06/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU6SuGojFmE

 

SYSTEM w/Chris Hedges, Richard Wolff, Gabor Mate, Michael Sandel, Joe Bageant & Yuval Noah Harari 08/08/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdW0xR1jW7E

 

Economic Update: A US Left Rises to Remake the World 08/09/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpwUMkEXTas

 

Self-Defeating Tariffs on China - Richard Wolff 08/10/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKn0g8EAdNI

 

Ask Prof Wolff: What's the Story in Cuba? 08/11/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdFGjhe19Oc

 

Wolff Responds: Reform and Revolution 08/11/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BwnvnhL2m0

 

Professor Richard Wolff | DANGERS of Capitalism 08/12/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thqhv1WlS3o

 

Professor Richard Wolff | The Colonial DEATHCOUNT 😡 08/12/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiDXiSlVF20


Professor Richard Wolff | Socialism Is WINNING 🎉🎈 08/12/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdI1YCmr0kg

 

Professor Richard Wolff | Americans Are BRAINWASHED About SOCIALISM 08/12/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8w0vWg7gQg

 

Richard Wolff | NOT ALLOWED To Say THIS About Socialism 08/12/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKwijOf2pZw

 

Professor Richard Wolff | Growth is KILLING US 08/12/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvDIXGyL7wk

 

Professor Richard Wolff | What Should THE STATE Do? 08/12/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1gF9WZ2krU

 

Professor Richard Wolff | PILLS For PROFIT 😢 08/12/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grh5fP4WkGI

 

Julian Casablancas Interviews Richard D. Wolff | S.O.S. Earth is a Mess 08/12/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOq5FxSQ1TQ

 

Prof. Richard Wolff: For New Infrastructure, a New System 08/13/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-QMk3ZTp9k

 

Richard Wolff (Marxism Deep Dive, Socialism vs. Capitalism, A Solution To Corporatism) 08/13/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEAM4vzQLT8

 

Chris Hedges & Richard Wolff | Infrastructure & Pandemic Relief Are BLATANT SCAMS 081421

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqCDmLdy5jY

 

Chris Hedges & Richard Wolff | America's OBVIOUS DECLINE 08/14/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGQT69IuP4U

 

Capitalism Run Amok: What went wrong and how to fix it | Marianne Williamson and Richard Wolff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiEmfXECD9k 08/14/21

 

Comment: The End of School ‘Reform’.  Whatever leadership imperatives become the new driving force behind the next education policy directives, they are doomed to irrelevance if they ignore the needs and interests of teachers.

https://progressive.org/magazine/the-end-of-school-reform-bryant/

 

Smart Ass Cripple: Separate and Unequal.  Schools with accessibility problems shut out disabled people.

https://progressive.org/magazine/separate-and-unequal-ervin/

 

Searching for ‘Normal’: Educators are bracing for an uncertain fall semester.

https://progressive.org/magazine/searching-for-normal-greene/

 

Young People Deserve Police-Free Schools: As schools reopened their doors in the spring, young people were met with violence—by the police.

https://progressive.org/magazine/young-people-police-free-schools-fernandez-stith/

 

The Problem with Private School Vouchers: Harmful programs that redirect funds from public schools to private institutions are spreading rapidly across the country.

https://progressive.org/magazine/private-school-vouchers-levin/

 

The Fight for School Equity: What we need is not to return to “normal” but to shape progressive education policies to take marginalized students into account.

https://progressive.org/magazine/fight-for-school-equity-brown-glenn/

 

Make Schools a Catalyst for Change: Educators across the United States are embracing curriculums that incorporate social justice issues into learning—a first step that should be applauded.

https://progressive.org/magazine/schools-catalyst-for-change-yanar/

 

Welcome to Refugee High: A new book gives a portrait of students’ lives at one of Chicago’s most diverse high schools during Trump’s anti-immigrant campaign.

https://progressive.org/magazine/welcome-to-refugee-high-fishman/

 

One Question: How Can Public Schools Emerge from the Pandemic Better Than Before?

https://progressive.org/magazine/one-question-public-schools-emerge-pandemic/

 

The Alienation of Modern Man: An Interpretation Based on Marx And Tönnies

https://www.marxists.org/subject/alienation/pappenheim.htm

Albert Camus's “The Human Crisis” read by Viggo Mortensen, 70 years later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaFZJ_ymueA

 

The Progressive Magazine August/September 2021

https://progressive.org/topics/august-september-2021/

 

The Tents of Venice Beach: This summer, thanks in part to the spread of Airbnb properties, one of Los Angeles's most expensive neighborhoods filled up with tents housing displaced locals.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/venice-homeless-encampments/

 

Cash Rules: How we pay for democracy.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/julia-cage-price-of-democracy/

 

And So It Begins – 1000s Of Cattle Are Literally Dropping Dead From Starvation In Northern Mexico

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSKD_CS37wQ

 

Money, Power and Wall Street: Part One (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Q9AOp2FW8

 

Money, Power and Wall Street: Part Two (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb786mTZVHk

 

How Philadelphia Became Pretzel Town, USA: Philly and pretzels? It’s a combo as natural as, um … okay, it’s a little weird. But here’s more than you ever wanted to know about how it came to be!

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2021/08/10/philadelphia-pretzel-history/?utm_campaign=EDIT%3A%20Sunday&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=149246957&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--maEP6jJwYXwlPOjU4qKCBkQYa1RPWHscUGDWZiVz7_OV7D7tTUSxDgNqf-EVzrJafWUqYDbUGoNQzeMyRYq8hkKJKTA&utm_content=149246957&utm_source=hs_email

 

Biden’s Big Plans for International Education

https://www.laprogressive.com/big-plans-for-international-education/?utm_source=LA+Progressive+NEW&utm_campaign=5b659ed924-LAP+News+-+20+April+17+PC_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_61288e16ef-5b659ed924-286987487&mc_cid=5b659ed924&mc_eid=dd9216c814

 

Asbestos troubles at Masterman raise safety concerns about some other Philadelphia schools as first day looms: Parents have criticized the district’s “lack of transparency,” and many have filed Right-to-Know requests to obtain information on building hazards.

https://philadelphia.chalkbeat.org/2021/8/16/22627827/asbestos-troubles-at-masterman-raise-concerns-about-other-philadelphia-schools-as-first-day-looms

 

Go Office or Go Home: Austin Companies Reject Hybrid Work Setups: Managers in the Texas capital are less likely to favor hybrid work than other U.S. cities, a survey found.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-17/where-managers-are-least-likely-to-embrace-hybrid-work?fbclid=IwAR2mBCiaEES5L1IncfIiEGQlwiuEGJsyaxM-7b6iwj15xJ1K7dFPAK-qmxU

 

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Living Nowhere: As more people are giving up traditional addresses for life on the road, some find themselves wondering if they escaped the grind or just found a new one.

https://newrepublic.com/article/161807/van-life-nomadic-living-housing-affordability?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch  

 

The UK is now a third country – Britain’s supply chain crisis

https://centralbylines.co.uk/the-uk-is-now-a-third-country-britains-supply-chain-crisis/?fbclid=IwAR14teZsrpO5eUp6zHEuMcxIluirGO-9DmsBSocB8YVpJWf-aevx-23hhv4

 

Why It Has Taken So Long to Develop a Vaccine for Lyme Disease: Initially halted by public fears, a preventive treatment could be here in two years.

https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-medicine/the-two-decade-delay-in-lyme-disease-vaccines?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_081921&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5f108bc3a1573c18f411ce44&cndid=61660189&hasha=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496&hashb=d66eda798d13296a4f50fdc8f2311240bd954c47&hashc=b797ec0058e74865fbe009ec53ab7d2888433ec403939f5df0581e6b656d5101&esrc=subscribe-page&mbid=CRMNYR012019&utm_content=A&utm_term=TNY_Daily

 

Yellen, Walsh rule out extension of pandemic jobless aid

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/568617-yellen-walsh-rule-out-extension-of-pandemic-jobless-aid

 

The End of “the End of Welfare As We Know It”: We might be witnessing the demise—in uneven fits and starts—of Democrats’ poisonous “reform” thinking. All it took was a global health catastrophe.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163321/pandemic-relief-poverty-reduction-welfare-reform-democrats?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily

 

John Deere announces $1.6 billion in third quarter profits: enough to pay every UAW-Deere worker $160,000

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/21/deer-a21.html

 

Chicago Nabisco workers join strike in four US states

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/08/21/nabi-a21.html

 

Sikorsky helicopter plant in Chester County to close

https://www.dailylocal.com/business/sikorsky-helicopter-plant-in-chester-county-to-close/article_10f8c608-0102-11ec-933c-2737bbe830d6.html

 

THE SANKOFA COMMUNITY FARM AT BARTRAM’S GARDEN

https://www.bartramsgarden.org/farm/

 

Biden cancels $5.8 billion in student loan debt for the disabled

https://nypost.com/2021/08/19/biden-cancels-student-loan-debt-for-the-disabled/

 

A poor measure of need: Researchers urge update to decades-old federal poverty line

https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2021/08/13/a-poor-measure-of-need-researchers-urge-update-to-decades-old-federal-poverty-line/?link_id=7&can_id=1d0923a39dd9395ca5e7b571495ca9ab&source=email-the-largest-labor-uprising-in-history&email_referrer=email_1265195&email_subject=the-largest-labor-uprising-in-history

 

Poor People’s Campaign delivers letter to Biden, congressional leaders demanding stronger voting rights, living wages

https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2021/08/13/poor-peoples-campaign-delivers-letter-to-biden-congressional-leaders-demanding-stronger-voting-rights-living-wages/amp/?link_id=10&can_id=1d0923a39dd9395ca5e7b571495ca9ab&source=email-the-largest-labor-uprising-in-history&email_referrer=email_1265195&email_subject=the-largest-labor-uprising-in-history

 

Xi Jinping just sent a bleak message to China’s super rich

https://qz.com/2049109/xi-jinping-just-sent-a-bleak-message-to-chinas-super-rich/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=daily-brief&utm_content=c55d94d6-01de-11ec-b586-92ee3a9860c7

 

Why China’s crypto cowboys are fleeing to Texas: Tracking the Bitcoin bros seeking cheap power, lax regulation, and Austin’s best brisket.

https://restofworld.org/2021/bitcoin-miners-china-texas/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email

 

District Flips the Bird To Parents & PFT!! Allows Dangerous Asbestos Conditions To Fester

https://www.phillyhealthyschools.org/district-flips-the-bird-to-parents-and-pft-allows-dangerous-conditions-to-fester/?fbclid=IwAR1DDkj95xnxtQ0keIigyokeichUAVNeb002XtW-paLAX6Ro4iyjwCEtEso

 

A Society Designed to Incentivize Criminal Behavior at the Highest Level 08/11/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aamOluOHWFo

 

Ten Years Ago: S&P Downgrade of US Debt [10th Anniversary of Economic Update with Richard Wolff] 08/20/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0poFPTp5hc

 

Economic Update: Liberating Technology From Capitalism 08/23/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiR7XzD4QkM

 

The Gap Between Income & Cost Of Education - Richard D Wolff 08/24/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrUAifv4JCk

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Class Analysis and Classism 08/25/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Kpz38RxsE

 

Richard Wolff: The State of the Economy and American Decline. 08/26/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pviPZm0YQYI

 

LIVE: Richard Wolff DEBUNKS Economic Comeback Nonsense 08/26/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcB0BMbkBRI

 

Capitalism Hits Home: Cruel Optimism 08/19/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iHeMiaOv64

 

We Should Hand Out Free Heroin to Drug Users: The idea that abstinence works is more about our fear of drugs than it is about science.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/drug-policy-heroin-opioid/?utm_source=one-signal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2021-08-25

 

Feds report most rental assistance has still not gone out

https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-68d5f61397c203fb9bd023f10671ee18

 

Ending Enhanced Unemployment Benefits Is a Cruel Form of Pandemic Amnesia: Stopping Covid-19 aid programs early ignores what has worked to keep people safe, housed, and freed from debt as a global health crisis rages on.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163364/enhanced-unemployment-expire-september-pandemic?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

This lesser-known tax credit may offer working families a bigger write-off this year

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/this-lesser-known-tax-credit-may-offer-working-families-a-bigger-write-off-this-year/ar-AANxVMI?ocid=NL_ENUS_A1_20210822_6_1&bep_ref=1&bep_csid=33408

 

Philly teachers’ contract down to the wire: ‘We’re not at all close’.  Pacts for the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers and the Commonwealth Association of Administrators run through Tuesday.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/pft-contract-philadelphia-school-district-casa-principals-20210830.html

 

Luxury Cruise & Space Ships: An Obscene Abuse of Resources 08/31/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8CriBnQFyk

 

Diseases like COVID Reveal the Weaknesses & Strengths of an Economy 08/31/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L923Xgd7oFI

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Capitalism & Fascism 09/01/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqVQUZyIfeA

 

Nurses are on strike in Worcester for safe staffing for our patients and our community

https://action.massnurses.org/we-stand-with-st-vincents-nurses/

How Should a Millennial Marxist Novel Be?  The characters in Sally Rooney’s “Beautiful World, Where Are You” want you to know they considered alternatives to capitalism.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163505/millennial-marxist-novel-be-sally-rooney-beautiful-world-review?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Car inventories hit record low

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4jKiQnzFYE 

 

Major jobs disappointment: America added only 235,000 jobs in August

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/03/economy/august-jobs-report/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2021-09-03T12%3A51%3A02&fbclid=IwAR1XCt9Vj4c6a_p436vZ-vyEVbXEMh4O91fEZVy4762ww3P0xxq3ezkHeI8

 

Sacramento mayor: Recalling Gov. Newsom ‘would be terrible for California’. Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg tells Lawrence O'Donnell that Governor Gavin Newsom "does not get enough credit for what he's doing in California" and replacing him with Trump supporter Larry Elder would "bring government to a standstill".

https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/sacramento-mayor-recalling-gov-newsom-would-be-terrible-for-california-120099397618?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

 

The Dark Lesson of Elizabeth Holmes’s Theranos Is That Corporate Bullying Works: The Silicon Valley superstar may finally be facing trial, but the fact that her company got away with the crimes for as long as it did is still disturbing.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163522/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-corporate-bullying?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Made in New York The longtime Garment District workers who have spent their careers sewing Calvin Klein trousers and expediting Anna Sui gowns.

https://www.thecut.com/2021/09/made-in-ny-garment-district-workers.html?fbclid=IwAR1skqt--E2CZf6tCreJwbHZoKLJZyLu6s6yc6Cg-NksABnWtUA1U0Q9AC0

 

Voices From the Frontline: China's War on Poverty
https://youtu.be/FI9EYT2pW24

 

Remembering Richard Trumka, Labor Champion

http://www.populist.com/27.16.Rollins.html

 

We Will Not Be Denied Our Freedom to Consume Ourselves

http://www.populist.com/27.16.ArtCullen.html

 

Like a SNAP

http://www.populist.com/27.16.Guebert.html

 

Biden’s 180-Degree Shift on Trade Policy: Thanks to the Rapid Response mechanism in the new US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, trade is now being used as leverage to protect workers’ rights.

http://www.populist.com/27.16.Kuttner.html

 

Cheap Talk from the Fed on Global Warming?

https://cepr.net/cheap-talk-from-the-fed-on-global-warming/

 

Mark of Sanity in Health-News

http://www.populist.com/27.16.Retsinas.html

 

“Nobody is Above the Law” – Except The “Big Boys”

https://nader.org/2021/08/14/nobody-is-above-the-law-except-the-big-boys/

 

North Carolina Untroubled By High Child Poverty

http://www.populist.com/27.16.GNichol.html

 

Disney World of Corruption: How Mickey Mouse BOUGHT Florida

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-o_SUL5D2c

 

Covid medical bills are about to get bigger as U.S. insurance companies change policies.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/09/05/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine/covid-medical-bills-are-about-to-get-bigger-as-us-insurance-companies-change-policies?fbclid=IwAR3rI79DIPm64Fz-wh_tfR0NgBPkE7Z92E_X_cMq6lSNjUZnzoCWwpd0OOQ

 

No, Low-Wage Workers Aren’t Lazy. They’re on Strike.  Talking heads who blame government handouts for the labor shortage are missing the point. People are sick of crap jobs at crap wages.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163560/labor-day-minimum-wage-workers?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Lane Kenworthy: The case for social democratic capitalism.  Ep. 179 — Political Economy with James Pethokoukis

https://www.aei.org/podcast/lane-kenworthy-the-case-for-social-democratic-capitalism/?fbclid=IwAR1Es3oSEN6Hdf_1JqnU8LUWxNCLm4ldvnH_Duy9cFzs4gR1jHziOf6EdlM

 

Podcast discussing democratic socialism and capitalism

https://content.blubrry.com/political_economy_podcast/PE_Ep179_2020-04-29_Kenworthy.mp3?fbclid=IwAR3CkRX5qb-AiAFwbT6F_12gAvXOM0GI6qcUougN6mdcLnXpFG-Yzsi4oNQ

 

Social Capitalism, Capitalism, and Social Capital

https://www.socialcapitalresearch.com/social-capitalism/?fbclid=IwAR3PQLWum7lYF0-m5jKyF5T_uvILtDqz6V17DhJovE6SxjJ5X8iHmnry7oU

 

America is not a Capitalist or a Socialist Society: We are SOCIAL CAPITALIST

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/16/1842794/-America-is-not-a-Capitalist-or-a-Socialist-Society-We-are-SOCIAL-CAPITALIST?fbclid=IwAR1m2bcSTmoNs-m0BDsNrnnaFrJN1Bm3imOnrc-MRNPATeWwDO2wTcNm7rE

 

It’s Good That Elizabeth Holmes Failed: The Silicon Valley model of disruption won’t fix health care—it only creates the opportunity for a select few to profit off what’s broken.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163559/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-health-care?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Wawa customers can begin submitting claims as part of data breach settlement: The agreement calls for the convenience store chain to pay out up to $9 million in gift cards and cash reimbursements to impacted consumers

https://www.phillyvoice.com/wawa-data-breach-settlement-how-to-file-claim/

 

The shameful treatment of American families

https://popular.info/p/the-shameful-treatment-of-american?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo4NDQ3NzY3LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0MTAzNjQ4MCwiXyI6IlYrVG9VIiwiaWF0IjoxNjMxMTEwNTI2LCJleHAiOjE2MzExMTQxMjYsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xNjY0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.z_ugOxLo1d178nbHIjyF_5jYAZl6ud013Y6IDjP4kMI

 

Biden escalates shutdown stare-down with hurricane aid, Afghan resettlement plea: Those special requests will increase the political pain for any lawmaker planning to oppose the funding patch Congress needs to pass this month to keep government agencies open beyond Sept. 30.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/07/biden-shutdown-congress-hurricane-aid-510170?cid=apn

 

Ransomware Cyberattack Update

https://newsroom.howard.edu/newsroom/article/14946/ransomware-cyberattack-update

 

Is the U.S. economy about to faceplant? America just got rid of pandemic benefits while the pandemic is still raging

https://theweek.com/feature/opinion/1004594/is-the-us-economy-about-to-faceplant?utm_campaign=afternoon_newsletter_20210907&utm_source=afternoon_newsletter&utm_medium=email&refid=20E8D3B3314CD84F82A7DD5120915E94

 

Reflections in the Flames of a Labor Day Barbecue

https://www.laprogressive.com/reflections-in-the-flames-of-a-labor-day-barbecue/?utm_source=LA+Progressive+NEW&utm_campaign=c81060a552-LAP+News+-+20+April+17+PC_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_61288e16ef-c81060a552-286987487&mc_cid=c81060a552&mc_eid=dd9216c814

 

Why the “Bernie Bill” Will Not Increase Unemployment: Let’s get the facts straight about the Democrats’ reconciliation package and the effects of European-style social welfare.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163568/bernie-reconciliation-bill-european-socialism-unemployment?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Have Democrats Become the Party of the Rich?  If you’re waiting for Democrats to talk as frankly about wealth as they do about race, don’t hold your breath.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/democrats-rich-party-obama/

 

Democrats, Don’t Go Wobbly on the Estate Tax: Biden’s plan won’t hurt family farms and will affect only the rich. So why are some Democrats waffling?

https://newrepublic.com/article/163595/max-baucus-biden-estate-tax?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

How the Eviction Moratorium Got Through: As the deadline neared, the White House floundered and progressives took action.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/eviction-moratorium-cori-bush/

 

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: The Primary Abstractions of Capital

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c56LLCYG9fE

 

Now It Gets Serious: Whom Will the Democrats Tax, and How Much?  Spending money is easy. Raising it is what’s hard. Can the Democrats pass something that will break from 40 years of tax-cut orthodoxy?

https://newrepublic.com/article/163623/democrats-taxes-rich-reconciliation-bill?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Ryan Grim: Damning NEW Email Puts Joe Manchin’s Daughter At Center Of EpiPen Price-Fixing Scheme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrUdDv8eqOk

 

Capitalism Hits Home: Why Are 9.2 Million US Jobs Open? 090221

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4EjKY9sXaw

 

Economic Update: Extremes of Rich & Poor in U.S. Capitalism 083021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erfaekBxauw

 

The Economics of Criminalizing Abortion Exposed (w/ Richard Wolff) 090221

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mltEMoNa8CM

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Socialism's Biggest Failures 090321

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYkdLsb7oxc

 

Forgiving Student Loan Debt May Have Dire Consequences with Prof Wolff 090321

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-La4s-G50Co

 

Economic Update: 20 Years After 9/11, The U.S. Is Still A Stuck Nation 090621

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qou1TnvVMwk

 

Global Capitalism: US Capitalism’s Decline Accelerates [September 2021] 090821

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJMGihBTUJs 

 

Prof. Richard Wolff on the "Economics of Comradeship" 090821

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2IuXZLI5c8

 

Why There Is Nothing New or Liberal about Neoliberalism (w/ Richard Wolff) 090921

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70bI1EV7xSs

 

Wolff Responds: US Capitalism Unprepared 091021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xRqOlhLw2A

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Demoting Profit from the Bottom Line 091121

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAYs7sm4Xs8

 

Why Dems’ $82 Billion Proposal for School Buildings Still Isn’t Enough

https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/democrats-want-82-billion-for-school-buildings-is-that-enough/2021/09

 

The Emotional Toll of Dirty Work: Eyal Press’s new book studies essential workers who face a unique occupational hazard: moral injury.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163599/emotional-toll-dirty-work-eyal-press-essential-jobs-review?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Sorry, Everyone, but Congress Is Bringing Back Debt Ceiling Foolishness: Play stupid games, win stupid prizes—like economic ruin!

https://newrepublic.com/article/163636/congress-debt-ceiling-janet-yellen?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

An Eighth Grader Was Tired of Being Late to Zoom School. So He Made an App for That.

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-09-10-an-eighth-grader-was-tired-of-being-late-to-zoom-school-so-he-made-an-app-for-that

 

The Expanded Child Tax Credit Was a Godsend to Struggling Families. Will Democrats Save It?

The phenomenally effective and wildly popular program could be the centerpiece of the party’s midterm argument—if only it could agree to keep it.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163643/child-tax-credit-midterm-elections-2022?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

“Amazon, I’m Lookin’ at You”: Elizabeth Warren on Paying for the Budget Bill.  The Massachusetts senator asks: Are we really going to tell pre-K kids that billionaires can’t afford it?

https://newrepublic.com/article/163661/amazon-elizabeth-warren-budget-bill?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

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