Thursday, March 10, 2022

Economics and Corruption and Healthcare and Education related links 031022

 

Economic Update: The Socialism Issue – Jan 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTfbGTe1zQc

 

Today's Socialism for Americans - Economic Update with Richard Wolff – Feb 1,2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdSh41iRCx4

 

Town Taken Over by Two Rich Guys - Economic Update with Richard Wolff – Feb 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUXNB5dDsaQ

 

Ask Prof Wolff: The Tragedy of Ex-Socialist Nations – Feb 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSEtaPwqO54

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Democracy in Workplaces and Communities - Feb 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI0cWocHphQ

 

Is Bitcoin Is Being Manipulated By The Banks? Economist Richard Wolff - Feb 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypTu5j1IgMM

 

Economic Update: Rebuilding a Labor and Left Movement - Feb 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNgSypL-FTY

 

Politics of Boris Johnson and Trump - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Feb 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_6ac3MB21Q

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Anarchism, Libertarianism, and Capitalism - Feb 9, 2022

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

 

Will We Wake Up From Inflation Nightmare? (w/ Richard Wolff) - Feb 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YVam-Y3SrU

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Workplace Ownership Models - Feb 11, 2022

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

 

This Generation is Ready for a New System - Global Capitalism with Richard Wolff – Feb 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrREpKw3auI

 

Economic Update: Fascism – Feb 14, 2022

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

 

U.S. Approaching Fascism? - Economic Update with Richard Wolff – Feb 15, 2022

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

 

How Capitalism Becomes Fascism - Economic Update with Richard Wolff – Feb 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edN0SCV3DOU

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Finding Common Ground with Canadian Truckers – Feb 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo13VR9C2uI

 

Are Americans Willing To Pay High Cost Of War In Ukraine? (w/ Richard Wolff) – Feb 16, 2022

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

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Transitions Between Economic Systems - Feb 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75nqHVDqLkc

 

Wolff Responds: Inflation, Prices, Interest Rates...A Policy Crisis - Feb 21, 2022

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

 

Economic Update: Covid Criminals, Pandemic Profiteers – Feb 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnvBcR5Z3lI,

 

$30 Trillion Debt Gimmick - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Feb 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1NgK8pDPfs

 

Ukraine and Sanctions – How it Affects You (w/ Prof. Richard Wolff) - Feb 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctpiVZnw9VQ

 

AskProfWolff: Corporate Debt & Government Bailouts - Feb 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2MLJH-1QlI

 

Wolff Responds: Ukraine, Sanctions, and Rising Inflation – Feb 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bO79IXjYH8

 

Economic Update: Unaffordable Housing - Premiered Feb 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGwl4z1jZzU

 

What Truckers Could Be Demanding - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Mar 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZJd9cmMqwg

 

Ask Prof Wolff: The Yugoslav Experiment - Mar 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gHCSZe58ws

 

Economic Update: Green Party vs. 2-Party Monopoly - Mar 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQHMfIg4cDA

 

Non-Profit or Non-Taxed? - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Mar 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmkvu9OQ_Pg

 

U.S. Two-Party Political Cartel - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Mar 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziZOpRn4-44

 

Global Capitalism: The Inflation: Causes, Effects, & Outlook [March 2022] – Mar 9, 2022 

In this lecture, Prof. Wolff will discuss the following:

1. Impact of Ukraine events

2. What the FED can and cannot do about it

3. Solutions for inflation, past and present

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KDYZgBLQ3E

 

Boxed In: The Lehman Trilogy’s theater of financial malfeasance.

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/lehman-trilogy/

 

“If These Demands Are Not Met, We Will Be Striking by Not Attending School”: An interview with Ayleen Serrano and Nikayla Dean, organizers of Oakland’s student Covid protests.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/student-protest-covid-school/

 

Anti-Capitalist Crypto Experiments - All Things Co-op

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47DWVL7HgQc

 

The Future of Epidemic Tracking Is in Your Toilet: Wastewater is a crucial epidemiological tool for tracking Covid-19. It’s only going to get more important as climate change accelerates.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165271/covid-tracking-wastewater-climate

 

PHA is relocating residents to redevelop crumbling public housing towers. Most will never return.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/pha-westpark-apartments-residents-relocate-20220203.html

 

A MORAL BUDGET VERSUS A WAR BUDGET

https://kairoscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/PPC-BBB-fact-sheet.pdf

 

Capitalism Hits Home: How Americans Cope With Falling Living Standards – Feb 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX8xfo-2EDs

 

Joe Biden’s Good Start

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Editorial.html

 

How Corporate Greed is Causing Tornado Deaths

https://hightowerlowdown.org/podcast/how-corporate-greed-is-causing-tornado-deaths/

 

It’s Time for Biden to Keep His Promises On Marijuana: Even without Congress, the president could take important steps to ease federal cannabis prohibition. What’s he waiting for?

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Armentano.html

 

Restaurants Must Adapt or Die

http://www.populist.com/28.03.McMillen.html

 

The Continuing Phony Debate on ‘Free Trade’

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Baker.html

 

Cupid’s Most Painful Barb: Syphilis

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Retsinas.html

 

The Limits of Global ‘Laissez-Faire’

http://www.populist.com/28.03.OLeary.html

 

Ralph Nader: Think Big to Overcome Losing Big to Corporatism

https://scheerpost.com/2022/01/10/ralph-nader-think-big-to-overcome-losing-big-to-corporatism-2/

 

Can You Spare a Tire?

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Joseph.html

 

Union Nurses Seek Workplace Protections

http://www.populist.com/28.03.Sandronsky.html

 

We Need a 92 Percent Tax on Pandemic Profiteers: Let’s tax billionaires—and übermillionaires—back to where they stood when Covid-19 hit.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tax-billionaires-covid/

 

Facebook’s Sad, Hilarious Pivot (Again) to Video: Faced with an unprecedented crisis, the tech company is pursuing a path that many in the media industry are sure to find darkly amusing.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165290/facebook-zuckerberg-metaverse-earnings-report

 

Republicans Are Attacking a Biden Nominee Over His Stance on the Gig Economy: No, the gig economy isn’t taking over. Yes, employers use it to evade, illegally, their responsibilities for employees. Enter David Weil.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165275/republicans-attack-biden-nominee-david-weil-gig-economy

 

Democrats in Congress Are Poised to Hand Biden a Big Economic Win: The House passed the China competitiveness bill, which includes funding to shore up faltering supply chains.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165286/competes-act-china-supply-chain

 

How the Economy Defied Omicron to Add Nearly Half a Million Jobs: More people worked from home, but employers kept hiring, giving the Biden Administration a political lift.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-the-us-economy-defied-omicron-to-add-nearly-half-a-million-jobs

 

States Now Hold the Key to Making Medicare for All a Reality: With action stalled at the national level, local elected officials and movement organizers have joined forces to enact single-payer healthcare.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/medicare-for-all-single-payer-healthcare-california-new-york

 

Why single payer died in the California Legislature, again

https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/02/california-single-payer-legislature/

 

How to get Congress to reform our broken healthcare system

https://hightowerlowdown.org/podcast/how-to-get-congress-to-reform-our-broken-healthcare-system-3/

 

I Am Not Proof of the American Dream

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/opinion/tara-westover-educated-student-debt.html?te=1&nl=the-morning&emc=edit_nn_20220206

 

The Supreme Court Has Long Been Anti-Worker. This Is Biden’s Chance to Change That.  To fulfill his promise of being a “pro-union president,” Biden should choose a justice who has shown a commitment to defending workers’ rights.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/supreme-court-biden-breyer-union-labor

 

In a Single Year, $1.78 Trillion Was Taken From the Working Class: The wealth workers should have received, had wages kept up with productivity, was instead given to shareholders.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/build-back-better-wealth-gap-worker-power-income-inequality-wage-theft

 

A U.S. Court Just Intervened to Stop 17,000 Railroad Workers From Going On Strike: A conversation with Jeff Kurtz, a railway engineer and union member for 40 years.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/railroad-workers-labor-battle-bnsf-freight-blet-union

 

Biden sets first-year record with 6.6 million jobs added

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/business/joe-biden-jobs-record/index.html

 

Hello Tax the Rich Activists

https://mailchi.mp/51bd697f5a03/ttr-update-204?e=4c8b797e84

 

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION — JANUARY 2022

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

 

Job, Career, Calling: Key to Happiness and Meaning at Work?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/career-transitions/201206/job-career-calling-key-happiness-and-meaning-work

 

No, the US doesn’t have $30 trillion in debt

https://qz.com/2121442/no-the-us-does-not-have-30-trillion-in-debt/

 

‘Rooting against America’: Fox News faces backlash for seemingly celebrating a ‘bad jobs report’

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/4/2078606/--Real-patriots-don-t-root-for-failure-Fox-News-giddily-predicted-huge-losses-ahead-of-jobs-report?detail=emaildkre

 

How the Economy Got Restructured to Screw Workers: Why should capital bother to enslave labor when it can eliminate it instead?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165302/economy-got-restructured-screw-workers

 

Employment Situation Summary

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

 

My course "Wealth and Poverty" starts right here next Friday, And every subsequent Friday for 14 weeks

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/wealth-and-poverty-announcement?fbclid=IwAR0hC-jjg5AqtjfWzUCKMFk-yNNvDADqZMrH9aLWXG02aRl7M8E26QemiRE

 

Biden Is Doing All He Can for Unions, but It Still Isn’t Enough: A new administration report has great ideas, but only Congress can give labor real power, and the filibuster’s getting in the way.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165329/biden-union-task-force-report-pro-act-labor

 

Overworked, Underpaid, Traumatized, and Too White: Why congressional staffers are pushing to unionize their offices on Capitol Hill

https://newrepublic.com/article/165324/congress-staff-unionize-overworked-underpaid-traumatized-white

 

Fearless commentary on finance, economics, politics and power

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/01/michael-hudson-on-debt-parasites.html

 

The Land Belongs to God

https://michael-hudson.com/2017/01/the-land-belongs-to-god/

 

Editor's Note: Evicting the Elderly

https://progressive.org/magazine/editor-note-evicting-elderly-lueders/

 

‘Want to Go Home’: All over the country, nursing homes and senior care facilities are breaking the law, evicting elderly residents, and getting away with it.

https://progressive.org/magazine/evictingelderly-lueders/

 

Setting People Up to Succeed: An interview with guaranteed basic income advocate Michael Tubbs.

https://progressive.org/magazine/setting-people-up-to-succeed-stockwell/

 

Edge of Sports: Olympics Committee and Beijing, Peas in a Pod

https://progressive.org/magazine/olympics-beijing-peas-in-pod-zirin/

 

How To Play Monopoly

https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/12/21/how-to-play-monopoly

 

NEW Tesla BATTERY CHESS MOVE OF THE CENTURY?!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K_aBoxtSnk

 

No, the Richest One Percent Don’t Pay 40 Percent of the Taxes.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/fact-check-richest-1-dont-pay-40-of-the-taxes.html

 

Who Said It: Jeff Bezos or Michael Scott? See how well you know your bad bosses.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165241/who-said-it-jeff-bezos-michael-scott-amazon-the-office

 

The Real Problem With Spotify Isn’t Joe Rogan: It’s how the streaming service exploits musicians to pay podcasters like Rogan millions of dollars.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165349/joe-rogan-spotify-real-problem-exploits-musicians

 

5 technologies that can help older people stay safe in their homes

https://www.nbcnews.com/paid-content/paid-content/5-technologies-can-help-older-people-stay-safe-their-homes-n1282008

 

Will Minneapolis Pass a Law That Helps Renters Buy Their Homes?  Advocates see the fight as a chance to stop developers from displacing residents.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/02/will-minneapolis-pass-a-law-that-helps-renters-buy-their-homes/

 

Why Big Chains Thrived While Small Restaurants Died: How the National Restaurant Association bent the government to the will of the corporate behemoths—and left workers in the dust.

https://www.motherjones.com/food/2022/02/national-restaurant-association-relief-revitalization-fund-pandemic-mcdonalds-subway-nra/

 

Are We Even Talking About the Same “Housing Crisis”?  There’s a know-it-when-you-see-it quality to the term. Maybe that’s a problem.

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2022/02/housing-crisis-keyword-mother-tongue-abinder-affordable/

 

Wake Up Democrats! Address Blue-Collar Grievances: Working families used to be the Democratic Party’s base. What made them so susceptible to the Republican con, and how can Democrats win them back?

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Gardner.html

 

Manufactured Meat

https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/12/21/manufactured-meat

 

Team Greed Plays Big-Time Sports!

https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/12/21/team-greed-plays-big-time-sports

 

Alan Guebert: Tyson Foods: Meatpacking isn't for chickens anymore

https://www.thepublicopinion.com/story/opinion/columns/2021/12/10/guebert-tyson-foods-meatpacking-isnt-chickens-anymore/6435481001/

 

Building Back OSHA

https://m.usw.org/blog/2021/building-back-osha

 

College and University Labor Militancy Grows

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Sandronsky.html

 

Will We See Deflation in the Next 12 Months?

https://www.cepr.net/will-we-see-deflation-in-the-next-12-months/

 

A Tale of Two Industries

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Joseph.html

 

Ending child care subsidies won’t restock store shelves. A fairer, more sustainable global economy might.

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Kolhatkar.html

 

Which Side is Manchin On?  One multimillionaire senator has the power to decide whether millions of kids — including mine — stay out of poverty.

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Olsen.html

 

One small step for Starbucks workers, one giant leap for workers across America: Why strikes are sweeping America -- and why that's a good thing

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/starbucks

 

Television Hits: Red State/FD, MED, PD

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Retsinas.html

 

Why Parents Shouldn’t Rely on Santa for Big Christmas Gifts

https://www.poncacitynews.com/opinion/why-parents-shouldnt-rely-santa-big-christmas-gifts

 

Hopeful Green Inventions

http://www.populist.com/28.01.Lingo.html

 

Tesla Will Pay $0 Federal Tax Despite Elon Musk’s $11 Billion Personal Tax Bill: Tesla has no taxable income to report in the U.S.

https://observer.com/2022/02/tesla-2021-federal-corporate-tax-elon-musk-personal-income/

 

In the age of work from home, Pennsylvania factories struggle with staffing

https://www.wesa.fm/economy-business/2022-02-10/in-the-age-of-work-from-home-pennsylvania-factories-struggle-with-staffing

 

It’s time to stop the insanity that is killing public education

https://baptistnews.com/article/its-time-to-stop-the-insanity-that-is-killing-public-education/

 

Hey, Larry David, Your Super Bowl Commercial Was Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Bad: Forget crypto. The currency that’s tanking right now is celebrity liberalism. Looking at you, Matt Damon, Reese Witherspoon, and LeBron James.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165376/larry-david-crypto-super-bowl-commercial-pretty-pretty-pretty-bad

 

We Need a 92 Percent Tax on Pandemic Profiteers: Let’s tax billionaires—and übermillionaires—back to where they stood when Covid-19 hit.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tax-billionaires-covid/

 

The University Crisis: Does the pandemic mark a breaking point?

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/american-universities-crisis/

 

Learning From Decades of Public Health Failure: A conversation with George Aumoithe on the history of disease prevention, the economic roots of the crisis American hospitals face, and why we need to do better.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/learning-from-decades-of-public-health-failure/

 

Last Resort Abortion in a Rural Reproductive Rights Wasteland: “If abortion is taken away in Wisconsin completely, people will do much worse things.”

https://inthesetimes.com/article/abortion-reproductive-healthcare-rural-wisconsin-abortion-rights-planned-parenthood-milwaukee-madison

 

Is Decentralizing the Internet the Answer?  Bitcoin, crypto, blockchain... what does it mean, and is anything coming from Big Tech really “revolutionary?”

https://inthesetimes.com/article/decentralized-internet-tech-crypto-blockchain-web3-regulation

Which Side Are You Democrats On? Even the friendliest Democratic officials are cowards. The labor movement needs to save itself.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/democrats-biden-pro-act-marty-walsh-labor-amazon-union

 

Times have never been better for billionaires. - Feb 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYSAm7FueJ0

 

Wealth & Poverty Class 1: What's happened to income and wealth in America over the past 40 years?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVNdvkXTe1E

 

Politics are Polarized, But Not for the Reason You Think | Robert Reich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Q9ynm2Rfg

 

Capitalism Hits Home: Political Right vs. Abortion Rights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0O1NXcB3RI

 

Why Worker Co-ops are Special (and Socialist) - All Things Co-op

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LFdMGokJPU

 

Inside America’s Greatest Modern Labor Success Story: An interview with Geoconda Argüello-Kline, who retired this month after 10 years leading the most successful private-sector union local in America

https://newrepublic.com/article/165407/geoconda-arguello-kline-culinary-union

 

A Woman Is Cured of H.I.V. Using a Novel Treatment: She’s the third person ever to be cured. Researchers announced that the new approach holds the potential for curing more people of racially diverse backgrounds.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/health/hiv-cure-cord-blood.html

 

'Where is my office anyway?' As COVID recedes, remote workers prepare to head back

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/17/1080881870/return-to-the-office-remote-work-hybrid-schedule-worker-productivity

 

How the Left Should Think About Inflation: There is no compelling reason to raise interest rates, now or later.

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/inflation-federal-reserve/

 

Addressing lost opportunity, frustration in forgotten America

http://www.populist.com/28.04.ArtCullen.html

 

The Stock Market Bubble and the Regulation Paradox: Understanding the several smaller financial-market bubbles that make up the big one

https://prospect.org/economy/stock-market-bubble-and-regulation-paradox/

 

Young Workers Rising

https://m.usw.org/blog/2022/young-workers-rising

 

U.S. Politicians Spend Their Time Papering Over the Social Problems Caused by Profit-Driven Capitalism

https://www.pressenza.com/2022/01/u-s-politicians-spend-their-time-papering-over-the-social-problems-caused-by-profit-driven-capitalism/

 

Dean Baker | All workers should share the benefits of growth; raise the federal minimum wage

https://www.tribdem.com/news/editorials/columns/dean-baker-all-workers-should-share-the-benefits-of-growth-raise-the-federal-minimum-wage/article_d38d766c-7ac6-11ec-a05e-d74d02a06a8c.html

 

Could California Actually Pass Single-Payer Health Care?

https://www.laprogressive.com/pass-single-payer-health-care/

 

California’s Single-Payer Health Care Down but Not Out?

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Sandronsky.html

 

Psst: Want to know why Americans are gloomy about the "best" economy since 1984?  Hint: It's not inflation.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-starbucks-dilemma?utm_source=url

 

Bush-Era Crack Panic Is Back, and It’s Going to Get People Killed: Right-wingers dusted off their 1980s playbook to demonize a valid harm-reduction technique—and Democrats shamefully caved to them.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165357/biden-crack-pipe-fake-outrage

 

Rest in Peace: Goat Gonads, et al.

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Retsinas.html

 

‘Ratings whore’ Jeff Zucker has quit. Good riddance. Trump was his original sin.

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Polman.html

 

Ralph Nader: Investigative Nemesis Of Corporate Criminals Morton Mintz Turns 100 – OpEd [Eurasia Review]

https://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/ralph-nader-investigative-nemesis-of-corporate-criminals-morton-mintz-turns-100-oped-eurasia-review

 

Very Hip Companies Face Unions and Don’t Like It

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Atkins.html

 

Bernie Sanders demolishes the rich in Senate speech: ‘Oligarch’ America is here: ‘Time is approaching that we should offer a unanimous resolution congratulating the billionaire class’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/bernie-sanders-oligarch-america-speech-b2017004.html

 

‘Nurses Have Finally Learned What They’re Worth’: As the coronavirus spread, demand for nurses came from every corner. Some jobs for travelers paid more than $10,000 a week. Will the boom last?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/magazine/traveling-nurses.html

 

Youth to Biden: Drop Debt.  Democrats may be doomed in the midterms without student debt cancellation.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/youth-vote-student-debt-cancellation-loan-forgiveness-midterms

 

Sanitation Strike Not a Waste: A sanitation workers strike ended in defeat, but it was a good fight garnering national support.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/new-orleans-hoppers-unions-sanitation-workers-strikes-labor-movement-fair-wages-grassroots-organizing-city-waste-union

 

Middle America: A Family Farm’s Demise, a Democracy’s Decline

https://progressive.org/magazine/family-farm-demise-conniff/

 

Work Won't Love You Back: Wanted: An Anti-Work Movement

https://progressive.org/magazine/antiwork-movement-jaffe/

 

The Big Quit

https://progressive.org/magazine/the-big-quit-herman/

 

How Big Businesses Are Colonizing the Classroom: Parents say their children’s education suffers when career and technical education programs are tailored to the needs of corporations.

https://progressive.org/magazine/big-businesses-colonizing-classroom-bryant-hillman/

 

The Growing Blight of “Infill” McMansions: Their awful ugliness exemplifies the unbalanced economy that spawned them.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/01/17/the-growing-blight-of-infill-mcmansions/

 

Why Are We Torching Our Best Tool to End Child Poverty? My daughter and I were on the verge of homelessness before the Child Tax Credit. What’s going to happen to vulnerable families now?

http://www.populist.com/28.04.Moore.html

 

To Fix the Supply Chain Mess, Take on Wall Street: Financiers bent on short-term profits are largely responsible for America’s shortage of semiconductors and other key materials. Before we offer them more subsidies, how about demanding some accountability?

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/01/17/to-fix-the-supply-chain-mess-take-on-wall-street/

 

Accidents Waiting to Happen: The folly of blaming individuals for fatalities that could have been prevented.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/01/17/accidents-waiting-to-happen/

 

We the Regulators: Between Marxism and market fundamentalism is a new vision for progressive government.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/01/17/we-the-regulators/

 

Meat-Eating and Subsidizing Our Way Towards Extinction

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/02/21/meat-eating-and-subsidizing-our-way-towards-extinction

 

When Your Doctor Isn’t a Doctor: Thousands of urgent care clinics have popped up over the last decade. How safe are they?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165235/when-urgent-care-doctor-is-not-doctor

 

2022 ORGANIZING GUIDE - WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

https://medicareforall.dsausa.org/2022-organizing-guide/intro

 

2022 ORGANIZING GUIDE - MEDICARE FOR ALL, NOT MEDICARE FOR WALL STREET:

DSA CALLS FOR THE END OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S MEDICARE PRIVATIZATION SCHEME

https://medicareforall.dsausa.org/2022-organizing-guide/medicare-privatization

 

Chris Hedges | Our SICK Society 🤮

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwnynLc2U4Q

 

European Soccer Only Has Itself to Blame for Its Russia Problem: The invasion of Ukraine shines a harsh light on the obscene greed that has guided decision-making for decades.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165505/european-soccer-putin-russia-abramovich

 

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Technological Dynamism - Feb 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ay-bnxxRg4

 

Competition Between States -Anti-Capitalist Chronicles - Feb 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIr187kBwXs

 

Houston Is Hailed as a National Success for Fighting Homelessness. But the Reality Isn’t Quite as Rosy.

Simple overall stats don’t show the truth of the housing crisis.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165368/houston-homeless-population-reality-isnt-rosy

 

Most Powerful Economies in the World (1980-2026) - Jun 9, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmOnUSE6vjQ

 

You Are Being Lied to About Inflation | Robert Reich - Feb 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi4KMCQuQYE

 

Under Pressure, the Biden Administration Rebrands Its Medicare Privatization Initiative

https://jacobinmag.com/2022/02/biden-medicare-privatization-direct-contracting-dce-aco-reach-rebrand/?link_id=0

 

HOW TO ENJOY LIFE, AND AVOID SSA INVESTIGATIONS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08v2hIA93fY

 

Biden Was Spot-On: The Meat Monopoly Is Real and Insidious.  It was great to see the president criticize the large meatpackers Tuesday night. But why didn’t he say what he’ll do about it?

https://newrepublic.com/article/165576/biden-meat-monopoly-antitrust-economy

 

Jim Hightower: Corporations Win Olympic Gold in "Downhill Ethical Backflip"

https://magicvalley.com/opinion/columnists/jim-hightower-corporations-win-olympic-gold-in-downhill-ethical-backflip/article_926b92dc-3ef5-5328-889a-c7347c21766e.html

 

Unions Can Prevent Workplace Disasters: A trillion-dollar company like Amazon, with a centi-billionaire CEO, shouldn’t have warehouses that collapse.

http://www.populist.com/28.05.Entralgo.html

 

What Happened, Ms. Yellen?  How the Treasury has become the graveyard of progressive financial regulation

http://www.populist.com/28.05.Kuttner.html

 

Exploiting Young Workers

https://m.usw.org/blog/2022/exploiting-young-workers

 

Welfare Is No Substitute for a Child Tax Credit: Some in Congress say the child tax credit isn’t needed because Temporary Assistance for Needy Families is a success. Our reporting found it’s marked by repeated failures.

http://www.populist.com/28.05.Hager.html

 

More Quick Thoughts on Inflation After the January CPI

https://cepr.net/more-quick-thoughts-on-inflation-after-the-january-cpi/

 

Good Riddance to Amazon’s Terrible Bookstores: Amazon is as dominant as ever—and its retail ambitions aren’t going anywhere. But booksellers can toast the end of its disastrous foray into their turf.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165601/good-riddance-amazon-terrible-bookstores

 

The fed is about to shaft American workers

https://robertreich.org/post/675282257789992960

 

Physicians Slam Industry Push to ‘Fix’—Not End—Medicare Privatization Scheme: “The industry thinks they can save it with minor tweaks and cosmetic fixes. But we won’t back down until Direct Contracting is shut down, for good,” one doctor said of the Trump-era program.

http://www.populist.com/28.05.Johnson.html

 

Unfair Labor Practice Strike at California Art College

http://www.populist.com/28.05.Sandronsky.html

 

How BlackRock, Vanguard, and UBS Are Screwing the World: Such firms control a huge portion of the world's wealth. Instead of using that power to solve climate change, they're blocking progress and profiting off inequality.

https://newrepublic.com/article/165623/blackrock-vanguard-ubs-climate

 

How the Left Should Think About Inflation: There is no compelling reason to raise interest rates, now or later.

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/inflation-federal-reserve/

 

A “Simultaneously Hidden and Deliciously Obvious” History of Levantine Cuisine: Writer Antonio Tahhan and Anny Gaul, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, discuss a new collection of essays on the region’s food.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/anny-gaul-antonio-tahhan-interview/

 

The Avoidable Tragedy of Road Deaths: The media pays a lot of attention to rising crime, but more than twice as many people die in traffic collisions in the US.

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/driving-deaths/

 

Why Teachers Are Dropping Out: Covid and the culture wars have turned an exodus of teachers into an emergency.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/teachers-covid-culture-wars/

 

The Market’s Specter: China between capitalism and communism.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/china-communism-free-markets/

 

Amazon referred to US attorney general over ‘potentially criminal conduct’: House judiciary committee asks Merrick Garland to investigate whether retail giant obstructed Congress with misleading conduct

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/09/amazon-attorney-general-potentially-criminal-conduct-house-judiciary-committee

 

Why Gas Costs So Much? Trump, Saudi Arabia & Putin Exposed! - Mar 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=837aDz_paNg

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