Monday, July 25, 2022

Economics and Corruption and Healthcare and Education related links 072522


Oil Nations, prodded by Trump, Reach Deal to Slash Production: The deal will reduce output by 9.7 million barrels a day. While significant, the cut falls far short of what is needed to bring oil production in line with demand.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/business/energy-environment/opec-russia-saudi-arabia-oil-coronavirus.html

 

Stephen Hawking Stopped Believing in Black Holes

https://newrepublic.com/article/116442/stephen-hawking-thinks-black-holes-dont-exist

 

Elon Musk and America’s Toxic Cult of the CEO: He could have been banished for securities fraud, but the government feared the consequences for Tesla's shareholders.

https://newrepublic.com/article/151479/elon-musk-americas-toxic-cult-ceo

 

The Real Reason to Be Nervous About AI: Declarations of sentience are wildly premature. But the dangers AI poses to labor are very real.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ai-labor-automation-sentient/

 

We Shouldn’t Destroy What Is Working in Our Economy: As policy-makers move to drive inflation down, it is essential that they don’t lose sight of the economy's bright spots.

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/inflation-economy-labor-market/

 

After the Eviction Moratorium: The long-predicted nationwide wave of lockouts is finally cresting. A report from New York City housing court

https://newrepublic.com/article/166774/eviction-moratorium-new-york-housing-court

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Avoiding Harmful Capitalist Cycles in Co-ops - Jul 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDNXPqy2npI

 

Richard Wolff on China, debt, and European socialism - Premiered Jul 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvfYClz6ekM

 

Economist Reveals The Truth About Inverted Yield Curve Curse Featuring Richard Wolff - Jul 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugFwhI3kQ4E

 

Ask Prof Wolff: The Case for Degrowth - Jul 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvWxBT8tf7A

 

Richard Wolff Doesn't Want to Scare You But... - Jul 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bovmIDCxw2k

 

Economic Update: The Great Replacement Theory - Premiered Jul 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3-7fJX7m3M

 

It's Not A Conspiracy, It's Capitalism - Richard Wolff - Jul 12, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhQzig1XZq0

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Abortion Rights - An Anti-Capitalist Perspective - Jul 13, 2022

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

 

Global Capitalism: War, Sanctions, Deepening Splits: Economic, Political, and Cultural [July 2022] - Jul 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGVfTS489IY

 

Prof. Richard Wolff on The Banality of Heartless Economics - Premiered Jul 14, 2022

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

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Why Are Strikes and Unions Increasing? - Jul 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCE-KHo2rjI

 

Economic Update: Swedish Socialism Undone - Premiered Jul 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLpVy1nRPhU

 

Capitalism in Chaos - Economic Update with Richard Wolff - Jul 19, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zPL-Bj8M8g

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Human Needs Should Not Be Tied to Profit - Jul 20, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sZWnis2fEA

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Marx on the Role of the State - Jul 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enJtVcGZ96g

 

Capitalism Threatens Itself - Global Capitalism with Richard Wolff - Jul 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJOM6d-c0qc

 

Chris Hedges | Imminent Mass Extinction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbH_o-96qZI

 

Chris Hedges | Our Capitalist Death Sentence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34bb-ny3_TU

 

With US dollar nearly equal to euro, impact is being felt

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/with-us-dollar-nearly-equal-to-euro-impact-is-being-felt/ar-AAZkbFz

 

Equitable outcomes require understanding of ‘Social Drivers of Health’

https://www.federaltimes.com/opinions/2022/07/05/equitable-outcomes-require-understanding-of-social-drivers-of-health/

 

Capitalism Hits Home: Roe v. Wade Overturned - How Did We Get Here? - Premiered Jul 7/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc39GsPY7rM

 

Joseph E. Stiglitz on 7.30 | Joseph E. Stiglitz Australian Speaking Tour - Jul 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqXuaJ1U5UY

 

People who are homeless or on probation struggle to secure housing. An ex-Comcast manager turned landlord is helping.  In the current market, where rental supply is low and demand is high, property owners can be picky when choosing tenants.

https://www.inquirer.com/real-estate/housing/rent-assistance-philadelphia-landlord-criminal-record-housing-voucher-20220705.html

 

Life Kit: The importance of inclusion in sex education

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/04/1109667543/life-kit-the-importance-of-inclusion-in-sex-education

 

Assessing the Economic Gains of Eradicating Illiteracy Nationally and Regionally in the United States

https://www.barbarabush.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/BBFoundation_GainsFromEradicatingIlliteracy_9_8.pdf

 

READING THE NUMBERS: 130 MILLION AMERICAN ADULTS HAVE LOW LITERACY SKILLS, BUT FUNDING DIFFERS DRASTICALLY BY STATE

https://www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-literacy

 

CBO: Letting Medicare Negotiate Drug Prices Would Save US Nearly $290 Billion

https://truthout.org/articles/cbo-letting-medicare-negotiate-drug-prices-would-save-us-nearly-290-billion/

 

‘They don’t care about us’: US Starbucks workers allege they were fired for union activity.  Nine Colorado employees claim their dismissals came after an organizing campaign in response to safety concerns and pay problems

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/09/us-starbucks-workers-fired-union-organizing

 

A War on Homelessness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lncLOEqc9Rw

 

George Carlin - Balance the Budget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjjPlEW9bRM

 

The Reason Education Sucks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILQepXUhJ98

 

George Carlin School Panel on Fascism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvd68ovD68s

 

Claims that US oil reserve exports harm consumers are misleading

https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.32E34BY

 

Frontline Physicians in L.A. Can’t Pay Rent, So They Threatened to Strike: Medical residents and interns in LA County have kept their hospitals running while making minimum wage and struggling to pay rent. Then they overwhelmingly voted to strike and won big.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/physicians-los-angeles-county-residents-strike-threat-workers

 

Women Are Taking Over the U.S. Labor Movement: The pandemic has created an opportunity for new movements in industries that haven’t organized before—movements also led by women.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/women-labor-movement-union-strike

 

Don’t Trust the Federal Reserve on Inflation: The Fed’s plan to curb inflation rests on punishing working people—when they’re the ones in need of relief.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/federal-reserve-inflation-powell-biden-economy

 

No antibiotics worked, so this woman turned to a natural enemy of bacteria to save her husband's life

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/health/phage-superbug-killer-life-itself-wellness/index.html

 

Bacteriophage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

 

See the 'jaw-dropping' image from 13 billion lightyears away - Jul 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szr_7b4IyL4

 

NASA James Webb Space Telescope Tracking Ultra Deep Space Space with 1st infrared View of Universe - Started streaming Jul 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDY2dG6-71E

 

NASA telescope's first cosmic view goes deeper than ever before | ABC News - Jul 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j69f7TTkS1Y

 

This is the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope -- and it's absolutely stunning - Jul 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBDHqquK_8k

 

States With Abortion Bans Risk Losing Their Economic Edge: The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has prompted Democratic governors to pitch their states as better alternatives for business.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/us/politics/abortion-ban-states-businesses.html

 

Does Building Luxury Condos Create More Affordable Housing?  Brian Hanlon and Ned Resnikoff write that building market-rate housing lowers prices for everyone while John Washington and Tara Raghuveer argue that the private sector can’t fix itself.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/affordable-housing-debate/

 

"Greedflation": Is corporate profit-taking driving prices higher?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/greedflation-is-corporate-profit-taking-driving-prices-higher/ar-AAZq33o

 

Forget Recession. Today’s Bad Economic News Is That the Wealth Management Industry Is Thriving

Eight years ago, I didn’t believe America was becoming a wealth aristocracy. Now I’m not so sure.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167029/billionaires-wealth-management-economic-recession

 

James Webb Space Telescope Cosmic Cliffs First Images - Started streaming Jul 12, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjNcHI6WCmI

 

How Can We Improve The Economy? Start By Reining In The Power Of Corporations - Robert Reich on CNN - Premiered Jul 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE3AEt77Fdw

 

A Brief History of the American Labor Movement (LIVE AT 8PM ET) - Streamed live Jul 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SmZjM7SDGo

 

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Shifts in World Hegemony - Premiered Jul 14, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_gyj0Iw0nY

 

Why Food Prices Are Rising Even More | Robert Reich - Jul 14, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuvKoe9Ilvo

 

There's a massive housing shortage across the U.S. Here's how bad it is where you live

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/14/1109345201/theres-a-massive-housing-shortage-across-the-u-s-heres-how-bad-it-is-where-you-l

 

“Dear White Staffers” Speaks: Inside the Effort to Unionize Capitol Hill.  The staffer behind the social media account talks about the organizing drive, which will start to get real results next week.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167058/dear-white-staffers-instagram-interview-unionize-capitol-hill

 

Can Manufacturing Jobs Fight Against Oligarchy Featuring Bernie Sanders - Jul 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XgxwbATOk4

 

Stuck Nation - Live with Bob Hennelly - Streamed live Jul 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjL5IUcfJxo

 

Was 2008 a Turning Point for the Global Order? - David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles - Jul 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2DPeAbEtss

 

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope LIVE Tracking First New Pictures of Deep universe - Started streaming Jul 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcK-hbjCvsI

 

Amazon spent $4.3 MILLION ON ANTI-UNION CONSULTANTS in 2021 alone.  🚩

AND Bezos adds $500* to his wealth every. single. second.

https://greedyceos.org/?fbclid=IwAR2UMWVHJ36oFYKMPJuMrByMFo9hUy7hmJry9j6rzKK0uEcLHGQo2GQCX6Y

 

What If The Fed Bought Out The Oil Industry? - Jul 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDvckzo8ljU

 

Missouri’s top mental health official balked at new homeless law. The governor signed it anyway.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/missouri-s-top-mental-health-official-balked-at-new-homeless-law-the-governor-signed-it/article_99bde92c-03bf-54f0-b27a-e40a2fa586a8.html

 

Why the American Left Isn't Internationalist Enough w/ Aziz Rana - Jul 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALnW-pa3Se8

 

A Brief History of the American Labor Movement (REBROADCAST LIVE AT 9PM ET) - Started streaming Jul 17, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6s1Qutwbh0

 

Bernie Sends ABC Scrambling Over Money And Manchin - Jul 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enUGJc0870M

 

A Pro-union Worker Asked Amazon for Injury Accommodations. Amazon Fired Her.  The Amazon Labor Union victory at the JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island was historic. But right now, as we speak, Amazon is currently in court trying to throw out the results of that election, and pro-union workers keep getting fired.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/amazon-labor-union-workers-fired-retaliation-jfk8-union

 

Nurses in the U.S. Are Suffering "Moral Injury": The pandemic and staffing crisis have left healthcare workers with invisible wounds.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/nurses-moral-injury-pandemic-staffing-crisis-work-conditions

 

1 in 4 young adults live with a parent, grandparent or older sibling, research shows

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/20/1112623851/multigenerational-household-young-adult-pew-research-parent-grandparent

 

Organizers Look Back on Labor Notes 2022: A whopping 4,000 union workers and activists attended the Labor Notes conference in Chicago this year to share strategies and report on the status of the rising labor movement.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/labor-notes-organizers-strategy-workers-unions

 

Rest in Power, David Moberg (1943-2022): David Moberg spent his long, illustrious career covering the labor movement from the perspective of workers.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/david-moberg-obituary-1943-2022

 

After Roe’s Repeal, CVS Told Pharmacists to Withhold Certain Prescriptions: The retail health care giant instructed pharmacies to check why customers need medications such as methotrexate—and to refuse to provide them if they can’t prove they’re not for an abortion.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167087/roe-cvs-methotrexate-abortion-pills

 

Why the Global Minimum Tax Is Joe Manchin’s Worst Flip-Flop Yet: West Virginians don’t waste much time worrying that corporations pay too much in taxes. Why does Joe?

https://newrepublic.com/article/167091/global-minimum-tax-joe-manchin-worst-flip-flop

 

Nurses question staffing levels after patient suicide at Palomar Health in Escondido, California

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/07/20/kxoc-j20.html

 

How Donald Trump Jr. Promised—and Failed—to House the World’s Poor: He and a partner were going to build “millions of houses” for poor people in the developing world. They built virtually no units, left investors high and dry, and sued creditors rather than pay them.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166876/donald-trump-jr-titan-atlas-housing-poor

 

Capitalism Hits Home: United We Win, Divided We Fall - Jul 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CptfPp-DtF0

 

Raising a $1-a-Day Wage Seems Like a No-Brainer. Not to Congress.  Private prisons for immigrants rake in millions a year by paying pennies an hour.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/dollar-a-day-wages-immigration-detention-geo-corecivic-congress

 

The Government’s $473 Million Software Error

https://www.yahoo.com/now/government-473-million-software-error-230343185.html?guccounter=1

 

No, Corporate Greed Doesn't Explain Inflation: Private corporations make convenient scapegoats, but we should not let claims that inflation is their fault prevent us from inquiring more deeply.

https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/corporate-greed-doesnt-explain-inflation

 

Devastate the Working Poor and Face the Consequences: What is it that we can do to help create paths, into the middle class? A lot of these workers, let’s be honest, are ignored because they’re not white. But without them, this economy’s crushed.

https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/devastate-the-working-poor-and-face-the-consequences

 

Americans Earn Less Than a 1950s Paycheck When Federal Minimum Wage is Adjusted for Inflation

https://www.gobankingrates.com/money/wealth/americans-earn-less-than-a-1950s-paycheck-when-federal-minimum-wage-is-adjusted-for-inflation/

 

Harley-Davidson to restart Wisconsin, Pennsylvania plants

https://pennsylvaniaindependent.com/harley-davidson-to-restart-wisconsin-pennsylvania-plants/

 

Pa. state university system will chase non-traditional students to boost enrollment under next phase of redesign

https://www.hastingstribune.com/ap/agriculture/pa-state-university-system-will-chase-non-traditional-students-to-boost-enrollment-under-next-phase/article_b1dcff84-c4d1-5437-ad08-e1cb210c4bb7.html

 

Pennsylvania’s Unemployment Rate Down To 4.5 Percent In June

https://www.media.pa.gov/pages/Labor-and-Industry-details.aspx?newsid=706

 

"Amazing Time of Change": The End of the American Century - Capitalism Hits Home - Jul 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xQ62rZOAkM

 

This is Why Garland Must Prosecute Trump: What You Missed from the Last 1/6 Hearing - Premiered Jul 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVEqnGPbsc0

 

HOT JOBS: As temperatures soar and the city declares the summer’s first heat emergency, workers in some of the hottest jobs find ways to cope while on the clock.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/heat-wave-outdoor-work-jobs-philadelphia-20220722.html

 

Truckers defy Oakland port authority ‘free speech zones’, continue multi-day blockade: Port of Oakland signals crackdown on truckers holding cargo traffic captive

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/22/truckers-defy-oakland-port-authority-free-speech-zones-continue-multi-day-blockade/

 

A handful of corporations control what we see, hear, and read - Jul 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZCwmH_88eo

 

The Threat of the Military-Industrial Complex - Clip from Stuck Nation, Live with Bob Hennelly - Jul 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I5ngZOiae8

 

On Abortion

https://thehumanist.com/commentary/on-abortion

 

Sign up for the Health Care Workers Rank-and-File Committee! Stop the victimization of nurses! End the subordination of health care to profit!

https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/healthCategory/US_Healthcare

 

The U.S. Is Screwing Up Big Time on Monkeypox: As the World Health Organization declares an international emergency, it’s clear America has dropped the ball.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167141/monkeypox-global-emergency-children

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