The U.S. Is Run by a Selfish Oligarchy, a Ruling Elite
with a Pretend Democracy & Free Market (1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE0DF9MT5J8
Don’t Expect Gasoline Prices to Fall Quickly: While oil
is quick to reflect changing demand patterns, gasoline usually lags on the way
down.
https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/gasoline-prices-wont-fall-very-fast
Bernie Sanders and Amazon Workers Speak Out About How to
Win at Work - Streamed live 17 hours ago (as of 04/12/22)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvxdsmxcmeA
Deutsche Bank Forecasts US Recession (w/ Richard Wolff) -
Apr 11, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS8LjYp_rbc
Economic Update: Capitalism & Its Self-Delusions - Premiered
Apr 11, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbdJ-LuVZqI
A Simple Evaluation of the U.S. Economy - Economic Update
with Richard Wolff - Apr 12, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oV8lKlohls
Capitalism Moving On From U.S. Stronghold -Economic
Update with Richard Wolff - Apr 12, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADGolysVL3E
Ask Prof Wolff: The Relationship Between Government and
Businesses - Apr 13, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw-QGnqqaUc
Ask Prof Wolff: Government Finance - The Truth Behind
Borrowing - Apr 15, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnOIxEuZeLQ
Economic Update: Ukraine & An Empire's Decline - Premiered
Apr 18, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTMLvTYlg20
Missing Historical Context of Ukraine Invasion - Chris
Hedges and Richard Wolff - Apr 19, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFgCJejVtFE
Ask Prof Wolff: Falling Profits & Undemocratic
Decisions - Apr 20, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQXIbCpAe34
Did Corporate Greed Cause Inflation? (w/ Prof. Richard
Wolff) - Apr 21, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRK76Dnli7o
Ask Prof Wolff: Why Employees Need a Seat At The Table -
Apr 22, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOlhMe4Y_JA
Economic Update: Progressive Politics Win - Premiered Apr
25, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt63180k098
All Things Co-op: Innovation Under Capitalism - Premiered
Apr 26, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufmFSUoZio0
Ask Prof Wolff: Can Private Foundations "Save"
Capitalism? - Apr 27, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9s07uyt37o
Ask Prof Wolff: Bankruptcy Is Normal Under Capitalism -
Apr 29, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rugIZXVMoV8
Economic Update: Inflation - How Markets Fail - Premiered
May 2, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y54R5CcOf4E
Ask Prof Wolff: Why Inequality Exists Within Some Nonprofits
- May 4, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07i18OrugNk
Ask Prof Wolff: Marxist Dialectics - Where Philosophy and
Economics Meet - May 6, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AANoppZyWvM
Economic Update: Housing - Human Right VS System Failure
- Premiered May 9, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HS0RNk4sjE
Global Capitalism: Marxism: From Critique of Capitalism
to Alternative System [May 2022] - Premiered May 11, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlfo1HKlQz8
Ask Prof Wolff: The Stock Market Is Rigged - May 13, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKp4AfbNDMQ
Frightening Housing & Stock Markets - Global
Capitalism with Richard Wolff - May 15, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8c3ZCf2gQ
Economic Update: Jobs Driving Us Mad - Premiered May 16,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFG26h433Vs
New York’s Billion-Dollar Stadium Boondoggle: Governor
Kathy Hochul’s budget includes an enormous giveaway to the owners of the
Buffalo Bills.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/buffalo-bills-stadium-hochul/
How the “Jewel of Harlem” Became Unlivable: Esplanade
Gardens was trumpeted as a way to build wealth for middle-class Black New
Yorkers. But its crumbling infrastructure shows how the government gave up on
affordable housing.
https://newrepublic.com/article/165931/esplanade-gardens-harlem-new-york-harlem-housing
Shock Therapy For Neoliberalism Or Democracy? (w/Prof.
Joseph Stiglitz ) - Apr 13, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92bfkwA9q9s
Why The FED Should Worry You (w/ Prof. Richard Wolff) -
Apr 13, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmwRS1lBvv8
Capitalism Hits Home: The Business of Mental Health -
Premiered Apr 14, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFme5mYsFlA
We Can’t Let Billionaires Control Major Communications
Platforms: Elon Musk may not be sitting on Twitter’s board, but he remains its
largest shareholder—and that’s bad news.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/elon-musk-twitter-board/
It’s Time to End Forced Arbitration Completely: Congress
essentially admitted that forced arbitration is a corrupt practice—but only
banned it in one area.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/forced-arbitration/
Congress Is Dragging Its Feet on Recognizing a Staffers’
Union: Congressional workers often struggle to get by, and they lack legal
protections to organize and collectively bargain.
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/congress-staff-unions/
Shrinking the Economy to Save the World: The degrowth
movement argues that the only way toward an ecologically sustainable world it
to redirect economies away from market imperatives.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/degrowth-movement-economy/
Colonialism’s Ledger: Puerto Rico in the shadow of debt.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/rocio-zambrana-colonial-debts/
Honoring Dolores Huerta’s Legacy: At 92 years old, the
iconic labor activist continues to fight for workers’ rights.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/dolores-huertas-legacy/
Freedom From Fossil Fuels Tour
https://xrboston.org/action/freedom-from-fossil-fuels-tour/
Corporate America’s Long Con: Howard Schultz, Starbucks’s
returning CEO, says the coffee chain is getting into scammy NFTs. But that’s
nothing compared to the scam that corporations have been pulling on workers for
decades now.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166109/shultz-starbucks-nfts-corporate-america-long-con
How To Build Fierce and Worker-Centered Unions: A Q&A
with an organizer about her new book and on building worker power through
resilience.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/daisy-pitkin-on-the-line-solidarity-union-like-a-moth-to-a-flame
How Deindustrialization Shaped My Working-Class Family:
And why it took my father 40 years to see the ocean
Fintan O'Toole: Russia's 'Feral' Capitalism Is A Threat
To Democracy - Apr 16, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F-yTuvjoY8
Fintan O’Toole: Threat to democracy alive and well in
West. Feral capitalism has eroded
information free flow, rule of law and democratic checks
Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain
from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X
Financial Empire w/ Daniela Gabor & Ndongo Samba
Sylla: The Dig
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dig/id1043245989?i=1000550118226
The Wall Street Consensus at COP26
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/cop26/
The world needs a decolonial Global Green New Deal
https://international.dsausa.org/statements/the-world-needs-a-decolonial-global-green-new-deal/
Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674241398
My Mother’s Eviction—An Update: Her former senior care
facility was found in violation and ordered to pay a fine, but it is appealing
the ruling.
https://progressive.org/magazine/mother-eviction-update-lueders/
Work Won't Love You Back: What Teachers Can Teach Us
About Work
https://progressive.org/magazine/teachers-teach-us-about-work-jaffe/
Democratic Elites Don’t Understand the Class Culture Gap:
If we want to stop the anger, we need to stop the scorn.
https://newrepublic.com/article/165933/class-culture-gap-democratic-elites-economic-populism
The Right’s War on Vaccines Is Spreading Beyond Covid:
Childhood vaccination rates are plummeting amid misinformation and
fearmongering.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166140/anti-vaccine-spreading-beyond-covid
The Global South Is Confronting a Debt Crisis, and the
IMF Is Responding With Half Measures: Poor countries need debt relief fast. The
International Monetary Fund’s new “sustainability” idea probably won’t help and
might even make the climate crisis worse.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166134/global-south-imf-sustainability-trust
Jennifer Abruzzo Has Become One of the Quiet Heroes of
the Biden Administration: The NLRB’s general counsel shows herself once again
to be the Biden administration’s leading light on expanding labor rights.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166143/jennifer-abruzzo-nlrb-quiet-hero-biden-administration
Truck Drivers Hijacked by Immoral Corporate Bosses
https://hightowerlowdown.org/podcast/truck-drivers-hijacked-by-immoral-corporate-bosses/
Our privacy rights are being sold, stolen and stripped,
says Hightower
Lessons About Poverty in America’s Heartland: Being poor
affects everything from your health to the water you drink. It can also be
transformed into a powerful force for change.
https://www.populist.com/28.08.Remer.html
Unions Arise in What Newsrooms Remain in the US
https://www.populist.com/28.08.Atkins.html
Taxing Billionaires the Right Way
https://www.populist.com/28.08.Conway.html
Biden and the Billionaire Tax: We need a lot more
pitchfork populism from working-class Joe.
https://www.populist.com/28.08.Kuttner.html
More Quick Thoughts on the March Jobs Report – Good News
on Inflation
https://cepr.net/more-quick-thoughts-on-the-march-jobs-report-good-news-on-inflation/
Opinion: As prices soar, we need action — not spin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/05/prices-soar-action-is-needed-not-spin/
How To Make Housing as a Human Right a Reality: The
federal government has for years enabled the private market to make money off
our housing needs. Now, as home prices and rents skyrocket, there is a simple
solution: offer people a public option for housing.
https://portside.org/2022-04-04/how-make-housing-human-right-reality
Amazon workers’ astounding win, and how corporate America
is trying to take back power
https://robertreich.org/post/680432413956030464
Medicare Disadvantage
https://www.populist.com/28.08.Uretsky.html
RALPH NADER: Going for Big Watch on Big Budgets
‘Socialist Register’ Takes the
Measure of Neoliberal Capitalism
https://www.populist.com/28.08.Sandronsky.html
THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION — APRIL 2022
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
The World We Have: An Intro to Global Economics, Session
1 - Apr 18, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YjZFYIJ4vY&t=46s
Current Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in
the United States - April 20, 2022
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Inflation and Class Struggle
- Premiered Apr 21, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6sZWcP9iSk
What Happens When the Workers Become Owners - Apr 22,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgw2V_BLWpc
How London became the dirty money capital of the world |
FT Film - Apr 22, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyk12Wf_TeQ
Just run the numbers: Medicare for All is the best option
mathematically & humanely
Housing: Will rising mortgage rates end the boom? The latest numbers show an increase in
interest rates
https://theweek.com/business/1012848/housing-will-rising-mortgage-rates-end-the-boom
Laboratories of Anti-Monopoly: States are on the front
line of the fight against corporate consolidation.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/laboratories-of-anti-monopoly/
47,000 SoCal Grocery Workers
Get Biggest Raise in Decades: After teetering for weeks at the edge of a
strike, Kroger and Albertsons employees approve a new union contract. - Apr 23,
2022
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/socal-grocery-workers
OOPS! Joe Manchin Spills The
Beans On His Agenda - Apr 24, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtj5LcM0ZU4
A “Hunger Cliff” Is Looming for
Millions of Americans: As public health emergencies end, so do emergency
allotments for households receiving vital nutrition benefits.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166187/hunger-cliff-pandemic-food-stamps
The Impact of Trade on Black
Workers
We Need to Talk About Rural
Gentrification: While city dwellers find “deals” on real estate in the country,
locals are priced out.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166201/need-talk-rural-gentrification-heaven-place-earth-book-review
The Case for Not Worrying (Too
Much) About Elon Musk Taking Over Twitter: The Tesla CEO’s plans are
grandiose—and vague.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166217/elon-musk-tesla-twitter-deal
Now Amazon Is Being Challenged
in the Boardroom as Well: A campaign by New York and Illinois pension fund
leaders, led by New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, aims to pressure the
company on its shocking record on workplace safety and high employee turnover.
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/amazon-corporate-directors-pension/
WHITE PICKET FENCE: Their
family lived across from a whites-only development on the Main Line. Five
generations later, Toney Goins still feels as if he doesn’t belong.
The Amazon Labor Union’s
Historic Victory Was the First Step: But with the full support of the New York
City labor movement and the broader community, the workers can win.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/amazon-union-vote-staten-island/
We Can’t Let Billionaires
Control Major Communications Platforms: Elon Musk may not be sitting on
Twitter’s board, but he remains its largest shareholder—and that’s bad news.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/elon-musk-twitter-board/
Without Clinic Escorts, Abortion Would Be Even Harder to
Access: Lauren Rankin’s new book about abortion clinic escorts, Bodies on the
Line, shows how much ordinary people can do to ensure that abortion is
accessible in America.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/lauren-rankin-clinic-escorts/
The Long Road to Methadone Access in Rural America: The
U.S. has treatments to help people dealing with opioid addictions but throws up
hurdles to access.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166210/methadone-access-rural-america-opioid-epidemic
Bernie Challenges Biden To Do What He Promised - Apr 27,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbq3Tcfydm8
“It Would Be Huge”: Democrats Cheer Biden’s Baby Steps on
Canceling Student Debt. The president
said on Thursday that he was mulling some form of forgiveness, although he
stopped short of the $50,000 figure for which some have lobbied.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166240/cancel-student-loan-debt-midterms
Capitalism Hits Home: Mental Health in a Profit-Driven,
Isolated Society - Premiered Apr 28, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaVprxc66bs
Work Isn’t the Enemy of Good Parenting: Lara Bazelon’s
book argues that children benefit from seeing their mothers pursue careers.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166224/work-isnt-enemy-good-parenting-lara-bazelon-book-review
Don’t Count Your Recession Before It’s Hatched: The grim
first-quarter GDP number has people invoking the R-word. We’ll see. In the
meantime, take that trip to Costa Rica you can’t afford.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166258/2022-first-quarter-gdp-recession-predictions
Marianne Williamson is interviewed about unions by act.tv
host Julianna Forlano - Apr 29, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxf2iPGnwW8
Burnout: The truth about overwork and what we can do
about it | DW Documentary - Apr 29, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q98aCklzCBE
Why Are So Many Women Miserable Today? - Capitalism Hits
Home - Apr 29, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPXhwjl-rok
Yes, Wages Did Go Up. But Now We’re Back to the Crap-Job
Economy. Covid initially drove wages up,
especially for working-class people. But that’s over—another illustration of
capital’s dethronement of labor.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166218/covid-wages-up-return-crap-job-economy
The Strike Zone: Little-known labor heroes provide a path
forward for today.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/04/03/the-strike-zone/
Google is making it easier to scrub your personal info
from search results: You can ask the search giant to remove links to sites that
reveal your personal information, such as a phone number or address.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/google-request-removal-of-personal-information/
Reach your financial goals one step at a time: Join
Enrich, a personal finance program provided by New Jersey Department of the
Treasury.
https://njfinlit.enrich.org/?utm_campaign=20220418_nwsltr&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
Timothy Caulfield, Susan Gerbic Awarded Balles Prizes for
Critical Thinking
Remembering Carl Sagan
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/02/remembering-carl-sagan
How to Talk to Science Deniers
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/02/how-to-talk-to-science-deniers
Truth Gets Its Boots On
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/02/truth-gets-its-boots-on/
International May Day Online Rally 2022 - Premieres May 1,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6WuaBPuPqo
Understanding America's homelessness crisis: Major cities
are cracking down on homeless encampments. But why are so many people 'living
rough'?
https://theweek.com/briefing/1013082/living-on-the-streets
Mexico: Rail link worth billions won’t go through Texas
after Abbott used trade as ‘political tool’.
Instead, the proposed rail line would be routed along the far edge of
West Texas up through Santa Teresa, N.M., about 20 miles west of downtown El
Paso.
The Whole-Home Repairs Act (Senate Bill 1135) is a bipartisan
bill that creates a one-stop shop for home repairs and weatherization while
building out our workforce and creating new family-sustaining jobs in a growing
field. The Whole-Home Repairs Act is the first bill of its kind in the nation,
making it so that Pennsylvanians can stay warm, safe, and dry in homes they can
afford.
https://www.pasenatorsaval.com/wholehomerepairs/
Special Report: STUDENT LOAN DEBT AMONG EDUCATORS
https://www.nea.org/studentdebt/2021report
Opinion: Calling Joe Biden
Jim Hightower: Democrats, Please Be Democrats!
All Signs Point to Higher Food Costs
https://www.populist.com/28.09.ArtCullen.html
America’s Top 15 Earners and What They Reveal About the
U.S. Tax System: An unprecedented trove of leaked IRS data shows who reported
the most income in America from 2013 to 2018, as well as their tax rates,
revealing that the very richest pay lower rates than the merely rich.
Affordable Housing Shouldn’t Have to Take a Miracle
https://www.populist.com/28.09.Waddell.html
Conason: Blame Biden for higher prices - but then what?
Restoring America’s Manufacturing Might
https://www.populist.com/28.09.Conway.html
Is It Racist to Criticize China? Those who attack Tim Ryan’s ad challenging
China’s predatory trade practices as ‘anti-Asian’ are playing a dangerous game.
https://prospect.org/world/is-tim-ryan-a-racist/
Corruption in Drug Patents: Take Away the Money
https://cepr.net/corruption-in-drug-patents-take-away-the-money/
Biden Is Pushing for a Tom Paine Tax Plan: Over two
centuries ago, Tom Paine urged our new republic to tax extreme wealth. This tax
season, President Biden is picking up the call.
https://www.populist.com/28.09.Pizzigati.html
Robert Reich: Inflation is out of control! Urgent memo to
Biden and the Democrats
The Poor: Caught in Drug-Bureaucracy
https://www.populist.com/28.09.Retsinas.html
A Shipwreck, an Insurance Scam, and a Murderous Cover-Up:
The suspicious death of a marine surveyor illuminates flows of illicit money in
the global economy.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166306/shipwreck-insurance-scam-murderous-cover-up
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: US Labor - Supply vs. Demand
- Premiered May 5, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcCu4AP_S98
How Socialism Gives Us Free Time - David Harvey's
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles - May 6, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWcOZaL7xR0
Consumer Protection Progress and Regress – From the
Sixties to Now
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/16/consumer-protection-progress-and-regress-sixties-now
System Failures
https://www.populist.com/28.09.Kalet.html
Beware Megabillionaire with Big Plans for Twitter
https://www.populist.com/28.09.Patterson.html
Milbank: DeSantis saves Florida kids from being
indoctrinated with math
Dignity and Healthcare
https://www.populist.com/28.09.GNichol.html
What Unions Are Doing to Protect American Democracy:
Voting rights and democratic institutions are under attack nationwide. Unions,
with their 14 million members, may be the best hope for fighting back.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166336/wisconsin-unions-protect-american-democracy
Feds accuse Starbucks of unfair labor practices in
Buffalo
The Tragedy of the Expanded Child Tax Credit: As the
midterms loom, the recipients of the now-expired benefit are turning against
Democrats.
Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co.: No middlemen. No price
games. Huge drug savings.
Collectives Generate Healthy Money Talks, Empower People:
Fischer is excited to see the Collectives’ financial education kit out in the
world, and hopes to generate more healthy money talks with Cosmos workshops for
justice-oriented organizations.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/collectives-generate-healthy-money-talks
Economy: Surprise slump brings stagflation fears. Is the U.S economy at risk?
https://theweek.com/inflation/1013297/economy-surprise-slump-brings-stagflation-fears
Most Americans Say There Is Too Much Economic Inequality
in the U.S., but Fewer Than Half Call It a Top Priority: Democrats and
Republicans differ on whether addressing economic inequality requires major
changes to the economic system
The AMA’s Little-Known Committee that Sets Physician
Service Prices: Talk about “agency capture.” The American Medical Association’s
shadowy “RUC” panel tilts Medicare and Medicaid payments in favor of
specialties like surgery and away from needed family care. No wonder it keeps
its meetings secret.
Bernie Sanders DUNKS ON Lindsey Graham Without Even
Trying - May 8, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toALFf4R0-Q
Inside Purdue Pharma’s Multimillion-Dollar Payouts to
Politicians and Pill-Pushers: We uncovered a spreadsheet revealing little-known
spending that helped sell opioids.
The High Human Cost of America’s Sugar Habit: Low pay,
chemical exposure, and a life of debt.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/09/sugar-central-romana-fanjul-dominican-republic/
How Private Equity Looted America: Inside the industry
that has ransacked the US economy—and upended the lives of working people
everywhere.
The Smash-and-Grab Economy: Private equity billionaires
are looting the country, leaving everyday Americans to clean up the mess—and
fight for the scraps.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/private-equity-buyout-kkr-houdaille/
Real Estate Predators Tried to Cash In on the Pandemic.
Then Tenants Fought Back. “I feel
sometimes that we’re up against this faceless money monster.”
Everything Everywhere All at Once: How Private Equity
Rules Your World: From your favorite burger joint to your local dentist, PE
titans are invested in almost everything you do.
Biden and Trump Both Trashed Private Equity’s Favorite
Tax Dodge. Surprise! It’s Still Here. A
brief and enraging history of the unkillable carried-interest loophole.
These Are Congress’ Biggest Private Equity Investors:
Featuring some of DC’s wealthiest politicians.
The Fight to Keep Their “Poor People’s Paradise” out of
Private Equity’s Hands: Private equity buys up mobile home parks across the
country and raises rent. Sans Souci residents banded together to try something
different.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/private-equity-sans-souci-colorado-mobile-homes/
Two Behemoths Dominate the Motorized Wheelchair Industry.
Disabled Customers Pay the Price.
The mom-and-pop shops of the past are gone. In their
place? Skeleton crews, long waits, and endless bureaucracy.
My Newspaper Was Gutted by Journalism’s Biggest Bogeyman;
Pottstown had a thriving daily paper. Then Alden Global Capital came around.
I Work at a Furniture Store That Went to Hell Once Bain
Capital Bought It: “You’re just a number and totally replaceable—just used and
tortured in a weird way.”
It Was Hard Enough to Get Treatment for Eating Disorders.
Then Private Equity Took Over. About half of the people with eating disorders
having public insurance, yet few, if any, options exist to help them.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/05/eating-disorder-treatment-centers-private-equity-aca/
Elizabeth Warren’s Long, Thankless Fight Against Our
Private Equity Overlords: She sponsored a bill to fight what she calls
“legalized looting.” Too bad her colleagues don’t seem all that interested.
Leon Black’s No Good, Very Bad Year: The billionaire
private equity honcho was on top of the world. Until he wasn’t.
President Biden addresses plans to combat inflation - May
10, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEJxyHXHmHo
The Truth About Inflation: Saudi Arabia and Russia fueled
inflation, but Biden’s relief plan probably didn’t, and there are hopeful signs
even with high prices likely to continue into 2023.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/05/11/the-truth-about-inflation-2/
Target Workers Are Joining the Union Wave: Employees at a
store in Virginia filed for a union election Tuesday, with more locations
potentially to come.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166412/target-union-virginia-nlrb-amazon-starbucks
Nurses Are Fighting Back—but the Nightmare Continues:
Despite a wave of strikes spurred by the pandemic, they are still working in
unsustainable conditions and hospitals are dangerously understaffed.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nurses-strikes-labor/
Why the Biden Administration’s Plan to Fix Gas Prices
Isn’t Working: It’s tempting to believe high prices are all about price
gouging. But the reality is far wilder.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166463/biden-lower-gas-prices-price-gouging
Amazon to Managers: Can’t Bust a Union? You’re
Fired. Several managers at the Staten
Island warehouse were canned. It looked a lot like a warning to other Amazon
managers.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166445/amazon-managers-union-busting-fired
Biden’s Embrace of Unions Is a Boon for Democracy: The
White House’s support for labor organizing will become critical if Democrats
get locked out of power at the federal level in November.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166487/biden-unions-starbucks-amazon-democracy
Memo to Democrats: Bust the Credit Card Cartel. A midterm election plan for Democrats to win
the gratitude of millions of exploited merchants.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/05/13/memo-to-democrats-bust-the-credit-card-cartel/
The New Labor Movement Is Young, Worker-Led and Winning:
From Starbucks and Amazon to political campaigns and digital media, workers in
historically unorganized occupations are forming unions—and breathing new life
into the U.S. labor movement.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/new-labor-movement-amazon-starbucks-union
The Rip-Off Economy Will Save Itself. It Won't Save
You. Squandering our national moment of
opportunity at capitalism’s casino.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/economy-crypto-wall-street-pandemic-scam
No Half Measures, We Need Biden to Cancel All Student
Loan Debt: The Debt Collective has successfully pushed Biden to extend the
pause on student loan payments. Now we’re organizing to make the White House
cancel all student debt.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/biden-cancel-student-loan-debt-collective
Rapid Grocery Delivery Service Buyk Accused of Wage Theft
by Former Workers: Before the Russian-funded delivery startup collapsed, Buyk
sold itself as a way for workers to escape the gig economy. Former workers say
it failed to deliver.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/buyk-wage-theft-gig-economy-new-york-russia-labor
50 Years of Class War in Wisconsin:A conversation with
veteran educators and organizers Frank Emspak and Adrienne Pagac about the
conditions that paved the way for the Wisconsin Uprising.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/scott-walker-act-10-wisconsin-uprising-class-struggle-unions-labor
The Privatization of Everything: A conversation with
author Donald Cohen and Marianne Williamson - May 14, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSJe4RPYcIs
The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of
Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781620976531
Hit Reset on Student Debt, All $1,896,944,109,232 of It:
It’s time for Biden to do the right thing. Every day it’s more obvious that
having 46 million people drowning in $1.8 trillion of student debt isn’t
sustainable.
https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/hit-reset-on-student-debt
S.4204 - A bill to establish a Medicare-for-all national
health insurance program.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4204/cosponsors
MISSION BBQ IS HIRING
How inflation became America’s greatest economic problem:
The last time inflation was this high, the Fed engineered a severe recession.
Unfortunately, the problem is much more complex now. Can the off-ramp to
spiking inflation go better this time?
https://www.grid.news/story/360/2022/05/11/how-inflation-became-americas-greatest-economic-problem/
Empty shelves and hungry kids: The U.S. baby formula
shortage is a crisis. And it’s getting
worse.
Goldman's Blankfein: Prepare for possible recession
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