Wednesday, December 21, 2022

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Housing Justice Advocates Sue Missouri Over Harmful Homelessness Law

https://www.citizen.org/news/housing-justice-advocates-sue-missouri-over-harmful-homelessness-law/

 

Monkeypox Vaccine Shortage

https://www.citizen.org/article/monkeypox-vaccine-shortage/

 

Truth Social’s Censorship, Terms of Service Defy Free Speech Promises

https://www.citizen.org/news/truth-socials-censorship-terms-of-service-defy-free-speech-promises/

 

Nursing Homes Often Do Not Report Private Equity Firms Among Their Owners

https://www.citizen.org/news/nursing-homes-often-do-not-report-private-equity-firms-among-their-owners/

 

Global Manufacturers Can Ramp Up Low-Cost Monkeypox Vaccine Production, Public Citizen Report Finds

https://www.citizen.org/news/global-manufacturers-can-ramp-up-low-cost-monkeypox-vaccine-production-public-citizen-report-finds/

 

FDA Must Promptly Withdraw Approval of Medication for Prevention of Preterm Birth

https://www.citizen.org/news/fda-must-promptly-withdraw-approval-of-medication-for-prevention-of-preterm-birth/

 

Three Cities Pass Medicare for All Resolutions in Past Week

https://www.citizen.org/news/three-cities-pass-medicare-for-all-resolutions-in-past-week/

 

Rampant Banker Misconduct in the Absence of Dodd-Frank’s Executive Pay Rule

https://www.citizen.org/news/rampant-banker-misconduct-in-the-absence-of-dodd-franks-executive-pay-rule/

 

Homeopathy on Trial: CFI Suits Against Walmart and CVS on Consumer Fraud Allowed to Proceed

https://centerforinquiry.org/news/homeopathy-on-trial-cfi-suits-against-walmart-and-cvs-on-consumer-fraud-allowed-to-proceed/

 

There’s Still One Big Trick for Getting Into an Elite College

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/01/opinion/school-private-college.html

 

China lashes out at latest U.S. export controls on chips

https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-china-global-trade-47eed4a9fa1c2f51027ed12cf929ff55

 

 

 

Capitalist Power Shifts: From Britain, to USA, to China - Global Capitalism with Richard Wolff - Oct 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhU-e59tcY

 

Economic Update: The Economics of Colonialism Pt. 1 - The British Empire - Premiered Oct 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXR9neg9jpM

 

Ask Prof Wolff: IRAs & Risky Investments - Oct 12, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLiOukmKC8c

 

Ask Prof Wolff: The Landlord Problem - Oct 14, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5JmeyiacQQ

 

Economic Update: The Economics of Colonialism Pt. 2 - The Neo-colonialism Variation - Premiered Oct 17, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dSKFf24UtA

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Democratic Divisions of Labor - Oct 19, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ7_K55PB0w

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Economics Nobel Prize - Ben Bernanke - Oct 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKgYY0XRzZA

 

Could Russia Destroy US Economy? Featuring Richard Wolff - Oct 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpJnRrL0-uw

 

Economic Update: Means TV - An Anti Capitalist Netflix - Oct 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm7nHQbC4T0

 

All Things Co-op: Tech Cooperatives and Software Engineering with Politics Rewired - Oct 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8hX4kXNoRk

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Gandhi, Ambedkar, and India's Freedom Movement - Oct 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBQUiOHanG8

 

Is Fed Chair Driving Workers Into Poverty? Featuring Richard Wolff - Oct 26, 2022

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

 

Ask Prof Wolff LIVE, October 2022 - Full Event Recording - Oct 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smMMDK0T-zo

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Overdetermination - Freud & Marxist Philosophy - Oct 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP8HiyC3LuY

 

Economic Update: Ana Kasparian on Today's US Crisis – Oct 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bu9dal2rcU

 

Richard Wolff Interview: Biden Should Copy Nixon and PUNISH Corporate Price Gougers – Nov 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYYJltH5Lw

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Hitler’s Nazi Party & Democratic Elections – Nov 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go7Bxh_PrCA

 

Economic Update: Capitalism vs Socialism is NOT Markets vs Planning – Nov 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-jCqjM4Kmc

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Fed Reserve Blames Inflation on Workers – Nov 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSrOG0YhnL8

 

Ask Prof Wolff: MAGA Communism – Nov 11, 2022 12 hrs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcqvZ81HPag

 

Global Capitalism: After the Elections: Now What? – Nov 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_sktsqk9v8

 

Economic Update: Nomi Prins on the Distorted US Financial System – Nov 14, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii3TEen_LP4

 

Prof. Richard Wolff: Cutting the Crap About Crypto – Nov 17, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi9YICRSHqo

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Expanding Economics Curricula – Nov 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDJNv75HDds

 

Economic Update: The Terminal Crises of Global Capitalism – Nov 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXNhS0bMv9I

 

All Things Co-op: Just Work for All with Joshua Preiss – Nov 22, 2022

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

 

Will Housing Prices Collapse? Featuring Richard Wolff – Nov 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3teandCSFI0

 

Ask Prof Wolff LIVE: We've Heard of Inflation, But What's Deflation? – Nov 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CWj_Cs0B78

 

Using Marxism to Understand the Ukraine War - Richard Wolff & David Harvey – Nov 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEZP_RzT2Dk

 

Economic Update: Persuasion vs. Polarization – Nov 28, 2022

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

 

Ask Prof Wolff LIVE: Understanding Fascism – Dec 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeZqKO728zo

 

Inflation, Europe's energy crisis, and the Fed with Richard Wolff | The Chris Hedges Report – Dec 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I43uC1mfHKc

 

Richard Wolff | How THE RICH Stole Democracy – Dec 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qyeHy84GXk

 

Economic Update: Instability - Capitalism's Constant – Dec 5, 2022

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

 

All Things Co-op: Cooperative Socialism with Ben Burgis – Dec 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=138t3XYJ_p0

 

Ask Prof Wolff LIVE: The Role of the State – Dec 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmQ9XRm_C74

 

Economic Update: Inflation and Labor Shortage – Dec 12, 2022

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

 

Conventional economists hate contradictions - Richard Wolff & David Harvey – Dec 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JllV04jm0tY

 

Economic Update: What "Capitalism's Decline" Means (Repeat) – Dec 19, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS-eCnCneyA

 

Capitalism Drives Global Economic Instability: Economies around the world were shocked and damaged over the course of 2022.

https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/capitalism-drives-global-economic-instability

 

All Things Co-op: NYC's Christmas Tree Cooperative – Dec 20, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMRySh6HBRE

 

What’s a Pig Butchering Scam? Here’s How to Avoid Falling Victim to One.  Thousands have lost huge sums after being lured into fraudulent online investment schemes by seemingly attractive strangers who strike up online conversations with them. Here’s a guide to spotting the telltale signs.

https://www.propublica.org/article/whats-a-pig-butchering-scam-heres-how-to-avoid-falling-victim-to-one

 

Democrats Seethe After OPEC Decision to Cut Oil Output: Some lawmakers are coming to the conclusion that America’s long-standing partnership with Saudi Arabia might not be worth the pain.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168015/democrats-seethe-opec-oil-cut

 

The Shame of Modern Corporate Management

https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/09/22/the-shame-of-modern-corporate-management

 

Drought, War, Inflation and Consumer Disconnect

https://www.populist.com/28.18.Guebert.html

 

Opportunity Shouldn’t Be About Luck: Cities and states are experimenting with “baby bonds” to narrow America’s yawning opportunity divide.

https://www.populist.com/28.18.Karpen.html

 

Newcomers Will Show Us the American Way

https://www.populist.com/28.18.Young.html

 

Hey, If the Government Pays for the Research, It Doesn’t Have to Grant Patent Monopolies

https://cepr.net/hey-if-the-government-pays-for-the-research-it-doesnt-have-to-grant-patent-monopolies/

 

A Global Recession Induced by Central Bankers: Today on TAP: Tight money spreads from Washington to Frankfurt to the Global South, needlessly increasing hardship.

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/global-recession-induced-by-central-bankers/

 

Here’s what you need to know about this week’s Social Security COLA hike: The increase is expected to be the largest in 40 years, and could offer a financial boost to roughly 70 million beneficiaries.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/infrastructure/3681182-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-this-weeks-social-security-cola-hike/

 

Why defunding IRS auditors won’t be easy GOP promise to keep

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3678188-why-defunding-irs-auditors-wont-be-easy-gop-promise-to-keep/

 

"China Is Doomed If Russia Loses! China Don't Want Russia To Lose This War"- Peter Zeihan - Oct 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJAjY5wNgeI

 

"The Epic Collapse Of China Will Stun The Whole World! & This Will Happen In Few Days"- Peter Zeihan - Oct 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-y9wiiRWTk

 

The truth behind “self-made” billionaires: Billionaires are not made by rugged individuals. They’re made by policy failures. And a system that rewards wealth over work.

https://www.nationofchange.org/2022/09/27/the-truth-behind-self-made-billionaires/

 

A New Misery Index: Meeting the People We are Making Miserable

https://www.populist.com/28.18.Retsinas.html

 

My Family and Kaiser Permanente

https://www.populist.com/28.18.Sandronsky.html

 

In the Good Old Summers Time

https://www.populist.com/28.18.OLeary.html

 

Close the Medicaid Coverage Gap: Over 2 million Americans like me are stuck without health care because 12 GOP-ruled states keep refusing to expand Medicaid.

https://www.populist.com/28.18.Cook.html

 

Who is Raising Our Children? Liberating Tweens From Corporate Tentacles

https://nader.org/2022/09/17/who-is-raising-our-children-liberating-tweens-from-corporate-tentacles/

 

Aiding Temps and All Workers

https://www.populist.com/28.18.Kalet.html

 

Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: What cannot be duplicated in a digital space

https://www.winchesterstar.com/winchester_star/bonnie-jean-feldkamp-what-cannot-be-duplicated-in-a-digital-space/article_a3dcc95f-243e-5b69-a97d-47cc98096812.html

 

A Hotline Garment Workers Can Call When They Face Harassment on the Job: When women who sew clothes for famous brands are harassed, there is a new place for them to turn.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/lesotho-women-workers-labor-unions-hotline

 

Starbucks Holds Life-Saving Benefits Over Trans Workers' Heads.  Managers are wielding a new weapon against unions: gender-affirming healthcare

https://inthesetimes.com/article/starbucks-union-campaign-trans-health-care

 

CEO pay up 17% as profits, stocks soar; workers fall behind

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/05/26/economy-ceo-worker-pay-corporate-profit/9941206002/

 

Most Americans agree that unions get better wages and working conditions for workers

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/09/02/most-americans-agree-unions-get-better-wages-poll

 

The Fresh Hell of Depending on Your Employer for Abortion Access: Some companies say they will cover abortion travel. Here’s what’s wrong with relying on their benevolence.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/abortion-supreme-court-workers-lyft-uber-starbucks-unions-healthcare

 

Why People Say There's a "Nonprofit Industrial Complex": Rather than building mass movements, talented organizers get funneled into staff and admin jobs just to keep the charity running.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/non-profit-corporate-influence-tax-evasion-tax-the-rich

 

Inside Lockheed Martin’s Sweeping Recruitment on College Campuses: The engineering degree to defense industry pipeline.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/lockheed-martin-recruiting-military-industrial-complex-student-debt

 

Corporate Stooges in Blue Collar Clothing: Tensions between right-wing populists and free-marketers have been bubbling up since the 1970s. Will the populists of today exploit this to their political advantage?

https://inthesetimes.com/article/right-wing-populism-new-right-populists-democratic-division-instability

 

Nobel Prize in economics awarded to trio including Ben Bernanke for work on financial crises

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/10/economy/nobel-prize-economics-winner-2022/index.html

 

Stanford scientists grow human brain cells in rats — and get them to do things: Cross-species experiment offers hope for devastating brain diseases

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/12/stanford-scientists-implant-human-cells-into-a-rats-brain-and-get-it-to-do-things/

 

How a Stanford chemist nabbed the Nobel

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/05/how-a-stanford-chemist-nabbed-the-nobel/

 

This Bay Area physicist and pioneer in quantum physics just won a Nobel Prize

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/04/this-bay-area-physicist-and-pioneer-in-quantum-physics-just-won-a-nobel-prize/

 

Swede who unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA wins Nobel Prize in medicine

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/03/nobel-win-for-swede-who-unlocked-secrets-of-neanderthal-dna/

 

Two Sixties’ Radicals Recall Fighting Times in U.S. Labor: Both Emspak and Melrod have penned candid, illuminating accounts of their past union and political activism, which will be very useful to younger radicals

https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/sixties-radicals-recall-fighting-times-in-u-s-labor

 

S&P 500 closes lower, notching six days of losses ahead of key inflation report

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/11/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html

 

Federal Officials Trade Stock in Companies Their Agencies Oversee: Hidden records show thousands of senior executive branch employees owned shares of companies whose fates were directly affected by their employers’ actions, a Wall Street Journal investigation found

https://www.wsj.com/articles/government-officials-invest-in-companies-their-agencies-oversee-11665489653

 

Federal gig worker proposal tanks Uber, Lyft and DoorDash stocks

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/11/uber-lyft-doordash-stock-tank-gig-worker-rules/

 

Social Security Administration announces 8.7 percent COLA hike, largest in 40 years: Starting in 2023, retirees on Social Security may see an average increase of $144 in each monthly check.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/infrastructure/3686150-social-security-administration-announces-8-7-percent-cola-hike-largest-in-40-years/

 

Biden to Gig Economy: Stop Stealing Wages.  The Labor Department’s new rule will reverse a Trump-era edict and allow more workers to be classified as employees, not independent contractors. Pay up, Uber.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168120/biden-gig-economy-rule-wage-theft

 

All Things Co-op: Union Co-ops - An Interview with Worx Printing - Oct 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHAeY9QFFi0

 

Capitalism Hits Home: Individualism is a Capitalist Deception - Premiered Oct 12, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vur1Yvj7WGo&t=211s

 

Why Is Trickle-Down Economics Still a Thing?  What’s bizarre about this latest episode of trickle-down economics is that this gonzo economic theory continues to live on, notwithstanding its repeated failures.

https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/trickle-down-economics-still-a-thing

 

Retail sales flat in September as inflation takes a bite

https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-business/ap-retail-sales-flat-in-september-with-inflation-hot/

 

The Industry Devouring the American Dream: Private equity’s tentacles reach nearly every aspect of our lives, and it’s making everything worse.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168144/private-equity-devouring-american-dream

 

Pannonia Federal Credit Union has merged with American Heritage Federal Credit Union. Information below is for archival purposes only and not current.

https://www.creditunionsonline.com/credit-union-7622.html

 

Chaucer Was Cleared of Rape, but What He May Have Done Instead Remains Illegal Today: They can’t prosecute you for hiring away somebody else’s employee, but it’s a breach of contract for the employee if she violates a noncompete clause.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168172/chaucer-rape-servant-noncompete-illegal

 

Cities After…Office Spaces as Homes - Pt. 2: Hybrid Work and Work From Home - Oct 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5jtF4IbdoM

 

Democrats May Have Made the Wrong Bet on Inflation: The party rode a little bit of midterm luck to get back in the running, but it might have waited too long to make its case on the economy.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168187/democrats-midterms-2022-inflation-economy

 

How Can We Fix Inflation? With Economist Steve Hanke | The Problem With Jon Stewart Podcast - Oct 19, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4MahOuEdVw

 

USDA announces $1 billion in debt relief for 36,000 farmers

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/usda-announces-1-billion-in-debt-relief-for-36000-farmers

 

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Metabolic vs. Independent Relations - Oct 20, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9yHe6Oz7EQ

 

Peter Zeihan Says Chinese Military Will Rot Without This Tech, Soon Its Neighbors Will Pounce Over - Oct 20, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knbF4XbCqZ4

 

Labor Report from State Senator Christine M. Tartaglione, October 21, 2022

https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100168360.1300.13&gen=1

 

Supreme Court delivers one of two legal wins for Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/politics/student-loan-forgiveness-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett/index.html

 

Rep. Katie Porter EXPOSES How Corporate Greed Is “Biggest Driver Of Inflation” | Roland Martin - Premiered Oct 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkqCk7E4uRs

 

The Fifth Circuit Just Defunded the (Consumer Protection) Police: It’s good news for financial predators as a trio of Trump-appointed judges tees up a chance for the Supreme Court to take the CFPB’s cops off the beat.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168247/supreme-court-consumer-protection-bureau

 

Bernie Sanders: 'Republicans blame Biden for inflation ... really?' - Oct 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSYFUJTXo3U

 

Dean Baker on Inflation Myths - Premiered Oct 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-ZUK0rnOiw

 

Privacy warning: What Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook get for providing you a free email account

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/privacy-warning-what-gmail-yahoo-and-outlook-get-for-providing-you-a-free-email-account/ar-AA13iabY

 

Health Care Innovations: The Next Big Breakthrough

https://thehill.com/events/3676750-health-care-innovations/

 

CNN anchor asks Saudi ambassador if the kingdom is siding with Russia. Hear her response - Oct 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb0AgzZ-rRE

 

Bezos Was Wrong, and Biden Was Right: Taxing the Wealthy Will Help Tame Inflation. A new report in The Wall Street Journal unintentionally sheds light on what economists, including Lawrence Summers, have long known: Higher taxes reduce spending.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166695/bezos-biden-taxes-rich-tame-inflation

 

The State of American Education

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECnPZd4k61U&t=938s

 

2022 Mathematics and Reading Report Cards at Grades 4 and 8

Compared to 2019 (before the pandemic):

Average scores declined in both subjects and grades.

Average scores declined for most states in both subjects and grades.

Students' confidence in their mathematics and reading skills declined.

https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/?ref=Tangle-newsletter

 

Reading and math test scores fell across US during the pandemic. How did your state fare?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/10/24/naep-report-card-test-scores-reading-math/10552407002/?ref=Tangle-newsletter

 

ACT test scores drop to lowest in 30 years in pandemic slide

https://apnews.com/article/health-education-covid-phoenix-f1735b733e3f707d1e37f04b102c5754?ref=Tangle-newsletter

 

Why Schools Need More Teachers of Color—for White Students: Nonwhite educators can offer new and valuable perspectives for children of all backgrounds.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/08/teachers-of-color-white-students/400553/?ref=Tangle-newsletter

 

Study: Student gains last year narrowed COVID learning gap

https://apnews.com/article/covid-technology-health-education-1d2f79e2c242d2212ff47983050e5330?ref=Tangle-newsletter

 

‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable’: How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions.  By next year, half of Medicare beneficiaries will have a private Medicare Advantage plan. Most large insurers in the program have been accused in court of fraud.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/upshot/medicare-advantage-fraud-allegations.html

 

The New Medicare Advantage Plot Exposed Featuring Alex Lawson - Oct 25, 2022

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

 

11 Money-Sucking Lies Your Brain Tells You About Salary Negotiation

https://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/11-money-sucking-lies-your-brain-tells-you-about-salary-negotiation.html?ESRC=navy-a_221026.nl

 

Behind the surge in workers with disabilities: long COVID

https://www.axios.com/2022/10/26/disabled-workers-long-covid-work-from-home?ref=Tangle-newsletter

 

People-Side Economics: Fighting Inflation As If Workers’ Lives Matter

https://convergencemag.com/articles/people-side-economics-fighting-inflation-as-if-workers-lives-matter/

 

People-Side Economics: Steps to Tax Justice and a Green Economy

https://convergencemag.com/articles/people-side-economics-steps-to-tax-justice-and-a-green-economy/

 

People-Side Economics: Better Ways to Cut Inflation

https://convergencemag.com/articles/people-side-economics-better-ways-to-cut-inflation/

 

SSI Recipients Are Getting Their First COLA Increase in December. Here's Why.  Those who receive Supplemental Security Income will get their COLA pay increase before 2023. We'll explain.

https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/ssi-recipients-are-getting-their-first-cola-increase-in-december-heres-why/?ftag=CAD3c77551

 

Washington’s Candy Barons Are a Bunch of Corporate Ghouls: The most powerful dynasty in the nation’s capital isn’t the Kennedys, or the Bushes, or the Clintons. It’s the Mars family.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168298/mars-mm-candy-barons-corporate-ghouls

 

US growth rebounds in third quarter, but shows warnings signs

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3707513-us-economy-grew-at-2-6-percent-rate-in-third-quarter/

 

US 30-Year Fixed Mortgage Rate Tops 7%, Hits Highest Since 2001.  MBA’s gauge of applications falls again to lowest since 1997.  Higher borrowing costs have stifled demand for homes this year.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-26/us-30-year-fixed-mortgage-rate-tops-7-hits-highest-since-2001

 

Liz Theoharis, The Poverty of the Political Mind

https://tomdispatch.com/the-quality-or-inequality-of-life/

 

Musk officially closes Twitter deal: reports

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3708424-musk-officially-closes-twitter-deal-reports/

 

Musk moves quickly to remodel Twitter

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3709902-musk-moves-quickly-to-remodel-twitter/

 

Elon Musk reportedly ordered company-wide layoffs at Twitter

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/29/23430332/elon-musk-twitter-reportedly-ordered-company-wide-layoffs

 

Ukraine Is Showing the World How Small Farmers Can Fix Our Broken Food System: Global hunger is rising amid war, inflation, and a pandemic—but it’s not because of a lack of food.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168304/food-supply-pandemic-war-ukraine-covid-farming

 

Warning Signs of Pancreatic Cancer and Advances in Treatment: Survival rates have risen and there are new treatments, but early diagnosis is key

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2020/advances-in-pancreatic-cancer-treatment.html

 

Which states tax Social Security benefits?

https://www.aarp.org/retirement/social-security/questions-answers/which-states-do-not-tax-social-security-benefits.html

 

Capitalism Hits Home: Family - A Feminist, Class Analysis - Oct 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5jbAYLWij4

 

Who Keeps Up with Inflation?  Don’t grow too complacent about Social Security. Republicans and much of corporate America would like to do away with it.

https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/who-keeps-up-with-inflation

 

This Week on Health Care Equity - October 28, 2022

https://www.protectourcare.org/this-week-on-health-care-equity/

 

Biden predicts student loan forgiveness checks will go out within two weeks

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3708631-biden-predicts-student-loan-forgiveness-checks-will-go-out-within-two-weeks/

 

Labor Report from State Senator Christine M. Tartaglione, October 28, 2022

https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100168380.1420.603&gen=1

 

Poliovirus found in NY wastewater genetically linked to case that paralyzed New York man

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3709846-poliovirus-found-in-ny-wastewater-genetically-linked-to-case-that-paralyzed-new-york-man/

 

Childcare Is in Chaos. Private Equity and For-Profit Chains Are Swooping In.  As the industry consolidates, it runs the risk of putting profits ahead of kids—and setting back the movement for universal childcare.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168322/child-care-daycare-private-equity-for-profit

 

May God Save Us From Economists: Over the last half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where it has no business intruding. It can be a useful tool for policymaking, but it’s become the only tool. It’s time for economics to back the hell off.

https://newrepublic.com/article/168049/tyranny-economists-government

 

The Rising Dollar is Hurting Other Currencies. Central Banks Are Stepping In.  The Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes are unsettling global markets and prompting other central banks to prop up their domestic currencies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/business/strong-dollar-global-economy.html

 

Flu and RSV hybrid virus studied in a lab for the first time: Amid a 'triple-demic,' scientists investigate two of the viruses interactions and co-infections.

https://www.popsci.com/health/flu-rsv-hybrid-virus/

 

Is it flu or RSV? It can be tough to tell.  Both respiratory pathogens are circulating, but one affects children more commonly.

https://www.popsci.com/health/rsv-flu-symptoms-difference/

 

‘We are not trying to scare you.’ In California, fentanyl now behind 1 out every 5 youth deaths.  Fentanyl overdoses are leaving their toll not only in tragically familiar places like San Francisco’s gritty Tenderloin district but also inside teenagers’ bedrooms in some of the Bay A…

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/30/we-are-not-trying-to-scare-you-in-california-fentanyl-now-behind-1-out-every-5-youth-deaths/

 

US Blockades China's Semiconductor Market - Oct 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQnzTLRiiA4

 

Here’s why the Fed’s next big rate hike may be its last

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3712963-heres-why-the-feds-next-big-rate-hike-may-be-its-last/

 

Watch live: Jerome Powell discusses expected rate increase

https://thehill.com/homenews/3715414-watch-live-jerome-powell-holds-briefing-following-fed-meetings/

 

THE DIRTY DIVIDE “Teaser/Trailer”     2020.  Shot on location in Skid Row, Downtown Los Angeles. An unflinching exploration of the tragic results of structural racism, de-industrialization, the failed war on drugs, and poverty, in the what has been called the “meanest city in America”. While homelessness has exploded in Los Angeles—Skid Row is the largest concentration of homeless in the hemisphere—brilliance and resilience are in full display in this new documentary.

http://www.paulfreedman.net/the-dirty-divide

 

Protecting the Profiteer: Corporations and Trade Groups Opposing Anti-Price Gouging and Profiteering Bills Blanketed Capitol Hill With Nine Times More Lobbying Power than the Bills' Supporters

https://www.citizen.org/article/protecting-the-profiteer/

 

We Can’t Fix Youth Homelessness Without Better Services: To achieve stable housing and economic security, young people need comprehensive, career-building support, not just a minimum wage job.

https://progressive.org/op-eds/we-cant-fix-youth-homelessness-better-services-perry-white-221115/

 

Corporate Greed Is Causing Inflation But The Rich Blame Workers? – Nov 16, 2022

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

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Global South - Breaking the Cycle of Foreign Debt – Nov 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGG-AFlUwqU

 

The Only Way the U.S. Can Win the Tech War with China

https://time.com/6234566/how-us-win-the-tech-war-with-china/?fbclid=IwAR3nP0wr8Zgg68E3vLi4-mQRZoHuW2AvjdDRQBv0OiLPo8eDIHid6PATq1c

 

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Religion's Impact on Politics – Nov 17, 2022

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

 

Labor Without Love: How have automation and deindustrialization changed our relationship to work?

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/sarah-jaffe-aaron-benanav-automation-work/

 

The Federal Reserve Attacks American Workers: Notes from Inflation Economics 101.

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

 

Banning Books Is a Threat to Public Education: To say nothing of the fact that we don’t value reading enough in the first place!

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/banned-books-libraries-crt/

 

We Should Be Fighting for a World Without Adoption: If poverty, racism, and health care inequities were properly redressed, adoption would be a last resort.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/adoption-parenting-choice/

 

Out of Sight: Poet and critic Meghan O’Rourke charts her struggle with chronic illness.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/meghan-orourke-invisible-kingdom/

 

The World’s Biggest Trial of a Four-Day Workweek Shows: It Works.  A shorter week allows workers to better take care of themselves without sacrificing productivity.

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/four-day-work-week/

 

Meet the California State Senator Who Wants to Decriminalize Psychedelics: Can Scott Wiener convince the state that his bill will reduce the “sheer misery” drug use is causing now?

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/scott-wiener-california-psychedelics/

 

Letters From the November 14/21, 2022, Issue: The real labor revival… The platform is the message…

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/letters-from-the-november-14-21-2022-issue/

 

Youth voters in near lock-step support of legalizing marijuana

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/6/2127377/-Youth-voters-in-near-lock-step-support-of-legalizing-marijuana

 

Single Mothers in Economic Pain: Where Are the Dads?

https://www.creators.com/read/froma-harrop/09/22/single-mothers-in-economic-pain-where-are-the-dads

 

Well-fed farmers find biting hand that feeds them tastes so good

https://www.stormlake.com/articles/well-fed-farmers-find-biting-hand-that-feeds-them-tastes-so-good/

 

When Free Markets Hit the Frying Pan, Consumers Often Get Burned

https://www.farmandfoodfile.com/2022/10/28/when-free-markets-hit-the-frying-pan-consumers-often-get-burned/

 

Will Powell, MBS, and Putin Throw the Entire World Into a Depression?

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/5/2127117/-Will-Powell-MBS-and-Putin-Throw-the-Entire-World-Into-a-Depression

 

Author Archive: Tom Conway.  Tom Conway is the international president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW).

https://independentmediainstitute.org/imi-articles/?author=Tom+Conway

 

When Red States Are Dying for Federal Aid

https://www.creators.com/read/joe-conason/09/22/when-red-states-are-dying-for-federal-aid

 

NYT Spreads Myths on Inflation

https://cepr.net/nyt-spreads-myths-on-inflation/

 

The Cost of Biden’s Student Debt Cancellation.  Today on TAP: At $15 billion a year, it’s a good deal for students and for the economy, but it only begins reform of how we pay for higher education.

https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/cost-of-bidens-student-debt-cancellation/

 

Tech Billionaires are Actually Dumber Than You Think

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/10/04/tech-billionaires-are-actually-dumber-than-you-think/

 

The three myths used by the ultra-wealthy to justify the ultra-wealthy: (Sorry you're so sensitive, Elon)

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-three-myths-used-by-the-ultra#details

 

Why Business Wants a Recession

https://rall.com/2022/09/27/why-business-wants-a-recession

 

Hiking public lands shouldn’t require a ladder

https://www.parkrecord.com/opinion/hiking-public-lands-shouldnt-require-a-ladder/

 

REVIVE THE CHILD TAX CREDIT. OUR CHILDREN DESERVE NOTHING LESS.  Those monthly payments made the American Dream possible for millions of families, including mine.

https://otherwords.org/revive-the-child-tax-credit-our-children-deserve-nothing-less/

 

How Remote Work Expanded My Professional Options With Chronic Illness

https://www.creators.com/read/bonnie-jean-feldkamp/09/22/how-remote-work-expanded-my-professional-options-with-chronic-illness

 

Raising Steady Kids in Unsteady Times

https://www.populist.com/28.20.Rollins.html

 

Inflation Reduction Act Contains Much for Rural Areas to Celebrate

https://www.populist.com/28.20.McMillen.html

 

Dispatches: TO KEEP WATER IN THE RIVERS, BIDEN’S PLAN IS CAPITALISM; MAR-A-LAGO DOCUMENTS HELD SECRETS ABOUT IRANIAN MISSILES AND INTEL OPERATIONS IN CHINA; BIDEN GOES DARK BRANDON ON MAGA REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY AROUND STUDENT DEBT; ABBOTT BLAMES BETO FOR BAIL BOND GONE BAD; JUDGE WHO RULED AGAINST CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU TOOK WALL STREET CASH: WATCHDOG; JUDGE’S RULING TAKES TRUMP ONE STEP CLOSER TO INDICTMENT ON CONSPIRACY CHARGE; NEW REPORT VINDICATES CRITICS OF 2015 REPEAL OF US OIL AND GAS EXPORT BAN;

https://www.populist.com/28.20.Dispatches.html

 

Ag Policy Was About Cultural Stability, Not Endless Market Growth

https://www.populist.com/28.20.Guebert.html

 

Industrial Policy: Now Comes the Hard Part.  Enacting large-scale bipartisan legislation was a minor miracle. It will take an even bigger miracle to spend all that money effectively.

https://www.populist.com/28.20.Kuttner.html

 

Bringing Workers’ Sensibility to Local Government

https://www.populist.com/28.20.Conway.html

 

Whoever Said Republicans Fight Inflation Better Than Democrats?

https://www.populist.com/28.20.Geyman.html

 

Republican ‘Solutions’ Will Make Inflation Worse: If cutting corporate tax rates and making billionaires wealthier actually fixed inflation, it would have ebeen fixed ages ago.

https://www.populist.com/28.20.Certo.html

 

Mary Sanchez: GOP to student loan debtors — ‘Not on our watch’

https://tribunecontentagency.com/article/mary-sanchez-gop-to-student-loan-debtors-not-on-our-watch/

 

Inflation, Inflation, Inflation and Social Security

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/10/19/inflation-inflation-inflation-and-social-security/

 

What Social Security Should Really Be Paying to Survive in This Economy: With more debt ceiling fights baked in, and the Republicans regularly using them to have a go at cutting Social Security benefits, it’s important to push back hard against the gutting of this and other social safety nets.

https://www.populist.com/28.20.Kolhatkar.html

 

Why the Economy Is the Dominant Issue for Democrats In the Midterms

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/why-the-economy-is-the-dominant-issue-for-democrats-in-the-midterms/

 

JESSE JACKSON: Oppose Kroger and Albertsons Merger

https://www.washingtoninformer.com/jesse-jackson-oppose-kroger-and-albertsons-merger/

 

Raise Corporate Taxes, Not Interest Rates: To protect working families, policymakers should directly address the problem of corporate price gouging.

https://www.populist.com/28.20.Baron.html

 

To Entitle or Not to Entitle: A Hamlet Moment for Medicaid

https://www.populist.com/28.20.Retsinas.html

 

Would-Be Elites Could Use a Break

https://www.populist.com/28.20.Uretsky.html

 

Millions Set to Lose Medicaid, Food Benefits Once Public Health Emergency Ends: “When the public health emergency ends, many individuals and families will experience the cumulative impact of losing access to both Medicaid and SNAP,” advocates warned.

https://www.populist.com/28.20.Johnson.html

 

The Bifurcated Economy

https://www.populist.com/28.20.OLeary.html

 

International Bankers Operate on a Level of Their Own

https://www.populist.com/28.20.Anderson.html

 

When No Home is Affordable, Where Do You Live?

https://www.populist.com/28.20.Marston.html

 

Medicare for All, a Timely Prescription

https://www.democracynow.org/2022/10/20/medicare_for_all_a_timely_prescription

 

Intelligentsia Workers Vote to Unionize, Fueling the Fire of Coffee Industry Organizing.  Workers at the coffee chain have joined fellow baristas at Starbucks and Colectivo in unionizing their workplaces.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/intelligentsia-union-labor-coffee-chicago-starbucks-colectivo

 

Monkeypox Is a Workers' Rights Issue: The outbreak of monkeypox shows that workers need protections like paid leave and just cause to help protect public health.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/monkeypox-union-labor-lgbtq-paid-leave-cdc-isolation

 

Black Women Will Face the Brunt of Abortion Bans. The Solution Is Universal Healthcare.  Those who claim to be “pro-life” should also advocate for a healthcare system that guarantees support for Black mothers and babies most at-risk due to the overturning of Roe.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/black-women-abortion-ban-roe-louisiana-universal-healthcare

 

A Left Answer to Inflation: It is time to forsake the Chicago school of economics.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/inflation-federal-reserve-policy-recession-class-war

 

In 40 Years of Labor Reporting, David Moberg Never Gave Up on the Working Class: As a staff writer for In These Times from its birth in 1976, Moberg secured a unique position for himself in the small band of the nation’s labor writers.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/40-year-labor-reporter-david-moberg-obit

 

Fighting the Bosses: 40 Years of In These Times.  Without a strong labor movement, there is little hope for socialism—let alone a more humane capitalism.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/fighting-the-bosses

 

Frustrated With #GirlBoss Feminism? Look to Eastern European History.  In Red Valkyries Kristen Ghodsee interrogates the false promise of liberal feminism.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/kristen-ghodsee-on-socialist-feminism-girl-boss-abortion-roe-v-waderussia

 

FDA approves first drug that can delay onset of type 1 diabetes: The series of shots is for patients with stage 2 of type 1 diabetes, and may not work for all recipients.

https://www.popsci.com/health/fda-diabetes-tzield/

 

Are Paralegals the Key to Affordable Legal Advice?  Our civil legal system is stacked against poor and middle-class people. Has Utah figured out the solution?

https://newrepublic.com/article/168960/paralegals-affordable-legal-advice-utah

 

Biden Extends Pause on Student Loan Payments: The moratorium on student loan payments will be extended to June 30, 2023, as courts consider legal challenges to Biden’s debt relief plan.

https://newrepublic.com/post/169111/biden-extends-pause-student-loan-payments

 

Policies vs. Ideologies - All Things Co-op – Nov 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6uOug4Ymew

 

Was This Professor Fired for Having Tourette Syndrome?  We want to ensure harassment-free climates in schools and workplaces, and we want to protect the rights of people with disabilities. What happens when these imperatives collide?

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tourette-syndrome-lowell-handler/

 

The Experiment: The life and afterlife of the Paris Commune.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/paris-commune/

 

Letters From the November 28/December 5, 2022, Issue: Godard’s intentions… The pain of others… Let the voters decide… Building power to win (web only)…

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/letters-from-the-november-28-december-5-2022-issue/

 

A French Village’s Radical Vision of a Good Life with Alzheimer’s: Every resident of the Village Landais has dementia—and the autonomy to spend each day however they please.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/a-french-villages-radical-vision-of-a-good-life-with-alzheimers

 

Musk says granting ‘amnesty’ to suspended Twitter accounts

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-technology-donald-trump-business-misinformation-c60bc41229339eaec5008188fa6d057c

 

Here’s how to stay healthy as respiratory illnesses spread this holiday season

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/21/heres-how-to-stay-healthy-as-respiratory-illnesses-spread-this-holiday-season/

 

Joe Hill Killed for Singing Labor’s Song

One hundred seven years ago, the labor troubadour Joe Hill was executed by a Utah firing squad for a crime he almost certainly didn’t commit. His real crime: singing and agitating on behalf of the working class.

https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/joe-hill-killed

 

Africa’s Great Lakes Red with Blood as War Rages: Why is nobody paying attention to Rwanda? Maybe it’s the cobalt, copper, lithium, and rainforest, precious resources exploited by every large country for years.

https://www.laprogressive.com/africa/africas-great-lakes-red

 

Addressing Youth Mental Health, by Youth, for Youth: In fall 2020, the youth council met with school, city, and county officials to advocate for more resources to address youth mental health burdens with success.

https://www.laprogressive.com/social-justice/addressing-youth-mental-health

 

Which to Choose: Medicare or Medicare Advantage?  Open enrollment for Medicare plans ends Dec. 7. Here’s what you need to know about shopping for them.

https://www.nytimes.com/explain/2022/11/20/health/medicare-open-enrollment

 

How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle: It began as a visionary notion—that patients could die with dignity at home. Now it’s a twenty-two-billion-dollar industry plagued by exploitation.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/how-hospice-became-a-for-profit-hustle

 

For America’s top-ranked CEOs, too much is never enough

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/11/25/2137676/-For-America-s-top-ranked-CEOs-too-much-is-never-enough

 

This “Medicare” is No Advantage…Could Cost You Millions Featuring Alex Lawson – Nov 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3mK0zb9zzg

 

‘No path’ forward: Biden calls on Congress to avert rail strike. Many rank and file railroad workers have fought to have better sick leave policies than those enshrined in the agreement, and Biden's action represents a significant split with parts of his labor base.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/28/freight-rail-shutdown-fuel-supply-00070980?cid=apn

 

“Pro-Labor President” Backs Down Ahead of Rail Strike: Worried about the economic consequences of a rail strike, Biden has asked Congress to intervene in a labor dispute.

https://newrepublic.com/article/169177/biden-labor-strike-sanders-warren

 

Bernie Sanders: Congress Must Act To Guarantee Paid Sick Leave For Rail Workers – Nov 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjAHKSyU0h4

 

House passes bill to avert rail strike

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3756478-house-passes-bill-to-avert-rail-strike/

 

$1,000 a month, no strings attached. New anti-poverty experiment comes to Silicon Valley.  Guaranteed income pilot is part of a Bay Area-wide trend

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/30/1000-a-month-no-strings-attached-new-anti-poverty-experiment-comes-to-silicon-valley/

 

Disappearing America: Feeling the Bern—Part 1: Capitalists defend their rabid anti-socialism as tough love, harsh, yes, but necessary to ween us from our addiction to character-weakening, morality-undermining government handouts.

https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/disappearing-america-feeling-the-bern

 

The Fed’s Inflation Mistake Continues | Robert Reich – Nov 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYC9RMEZjTQ

 

The Climate Villains of the Rail Strike: Workers and the planet share common enemies. Unsurprisingly, the fossil fuel industry wants this strike blocked.

https://newrepublic.com/article/169179/rail-strike-biden-buffet

 

Full List of Senators Who Voted Against Giving Rail Workers Paid Sick Leave: 42 Republicans and one Democrat voted against giving rail workers paid sick leave. Here are their names.

https://newrepublic.com/post/169254/full-list-senators-voted-against-giving-rail-workers-paid-sick-leave

 

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Pedagogy of the Emancipated Laborer – Dec 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvw3qM5zCy0

 

Biden signs bill to avert rail shutdown

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3758748-biden-signs-bill-to-avert-rail-shutdown/

 

Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Suspending Liberal Accounts for “Spam”: Several major Twitter accounts have been suspended or had other issues on the platform.

https://newrepublic.com/post/169234/elon-musk-twitter-suspending-liberal-accounts-spam

 

Economy adds 263K jobs in November, unemployment holds steady at 3.7 percent

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3758999-jobs-report-economy-inflation-november-unemployment/

 

Labor Report from State Senator Christine M. Tartaglione, November 18, 2022

https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100168453.1413.466&gen=1

 

Labor Report from State Senator Christine M. Tartaglione, December 2, 2022

https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100168495.1243.118&gen=1

 

Manufactured Need: What Capitalism Learned from Christianity

https://secularhumanism.org/2022/10/manufactured-need-what-capitalism-learned-from-christianity/

 

What We Learned from the Fight for Paid Sick Leave for Rail Workers – Dec 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW9yGHPEbCQ

 

The Senate Republicans Who Voted for Paid Leave Aren’t Exactly Pro-Labor: Most of them have worse AFL-CIO lifetime scores than their GOP colleagues.

https://newrepublic.com/article/169287/rubio-hawley-cruz-labor-unions

 

Buying the competition

https://popular.info/p/buying-the-competition?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

 

The Expanded Child Tax Credit Is Back—Barely: Some Democrats hope to get a revived version of the popular policy into a government funding package. Here’s what needs to happen in the coming days for this plan to succeed.

https://newrepublic.com/article/169349/expanded-child-tax-credit-revived

 

Scientists finally know why people get more colds and flu in winter

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/06/health/why-winter-colds-flu-wellness/index.html

 

A More Perfect Union Day One: Emerging Technologies – Dec 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLVpogKOda0

 

CVS' diabetes scheme

https://popular.info/p/cvs-diabetes-scheme?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

 

Capitalism Hits Home: How Disconnection Harms Us – Dec 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_4C4ii4EqI

 

Hit Corporate America Where It Hertz: The rental car agency is getting away with subjecting its customers to false arrests and imprisonment. How bad do things have to get before there are real consequences for bad behavior?

https://newrepublic.com/post/169409/hertz-false-arrest-scandal-corporations

 

How cities and states are confronting the mental health crisis: Is involuntarily hospitalizing people with mental illness a city's 'moral obligation'?

https://theweek.com/health-and-wellness/1018851/how-cities-and-states-are-confronting-the-mental-health-crisis

 

Is it settled? Vitamins beat cocoa to keep older minds sharp in a study

https://www.sparrow.science/is-it-settled-vitamins-beat-cocoa-to-keep-older-minds-sharp-in-a-study/

 

U.S. Raised Interest Rates Worsen Foreign Debt Crises - Global Capitalism with Richard Wolff – Dec 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgNdP6lFTXo

 

The Government Should Stop Funding For-Profit Hospice Care: A recent story shows it’s a racket. Because it’s taxpayer-funded through Medicare, it shouldn’t be too hard to end it.

https://newrepublic.com/article/169415/government-stop-funding-for-profit-hospice-care

 

Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes

https://www.ft.com/content/4b6f0fab-66ef-4e33-adec-cfc345589dc7?shareType=nongift

 

Thank You, Dr. Fauci: Withstanding an assault on science

https://steady.substack.com/p/thank-you-dr-fauci?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

 

How McMansions Drive LA’s Housing Costs, Homelessness, and Overcrowding: While rising income inequality leads to overcrowding and homelessness among most Angelenos, the small percentage of Angelenos with high incomes continue to rent luxury apartments and buy McMansions.

https://www.laprogressive.com/homelessness/mcmansions-drive-up-las-housing-costs

 

Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy: An Anthology by Social Justice Activists; a project of the Sanctions Kill Campaign

https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/sanctions

 

Post-Pandemic Student Struggle: Our Kids Need Tutors: Rather than focus on a comprehensive tutoring effort to reach every child, the state has spread educational recovery funds across smaller and targeted programs.

https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/post-pandemic-student-struggle

 

3 crazy details from the SEC filing against Sam Bankman-Fried

https://theweek.com/cryptocurrency/1019250/3-crazy-details-from-the-sec-filing-against-sam-bankman-fried

 

For a Better America, We Need to Address Interlocking Injustices.

https://morningconsult.com/opinions/for-a-better-america-we-need-to-address-interlocking-injustices/

 

Protecting the Right to Organize Act protects the basic right to join a union

https://edlabor.house.gov/imo/media/doc/PRO%20ACT%20-%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf

 

Paracetamol risk during pregnancy? Not how you imagined

https://preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webview/20593/74404995733128251

 

The secret IRS files: Trove of never-before-seen records reveal how wealthiest avoid income tax

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2021/06/10/propublica-tax-leak-irs-files-show-how-billionaires-pay-low-tax/7639768002/

 

How the ultrawealthy devise ways to not pay their share of taxes

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/25/1119412217/how-the-ultrawealthy-devise-ways-to-not-pay-their-share-of-taxes

 

Musk’s Twitter disbands its Trust and Safety advisory group

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-inc-technology-business-a9b795e8050de12319b82b5dd7118cd7

 

Sam Bankman-Fried’s esteemed Stanford parents face their own reckoning: Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried are being investigated on multiple fronts over whether they were complicit in acts that led to the collapse of their son’s crypto company.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/14/sam-bankman-frieds-esteemed-stanford-parents-face-their-own-reckoning/

 

Sam Bankman-Fried faces dire prison conditions after being denied bail

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/14/sam-bankman-fried-faces-dire-prison-conditions-after-being-denied-bail/

 

The College Student Tracking Elon’s Jet Had All His Twitter Accounts Suspended: Jack Sweeney had more than 30 Twitter accounts tracking rich people’s private jets. They're all suspended, and so is his personal Twitter account.

https://newrepublic.com/post/169532/jack-sweeney-tracking-elon-jet-twitter-accounts-suspended

 

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Mainstreaming Marxism & Redefining Capitalism – December 15, 2022

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

 

Ask Prof Wolff LIVE: Interest Rates Hurt the Same People Inflation Hurts – Dec 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGJPIlnsAC0

 

Twitter suspends journalists who have been covering Elon Musk and the company: Musk joined a Twitter Space to say the suspensions were related to new rules banning private jet trackers. Twitter suspended an account that tweeted the whereabouts of his plane.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/twitter-suspends-journalists-covering-elon-musk-company-rcna62032

 

UC Workers in Richest State in Richest Country Strike For Living Wages – Dec 16, 2022

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

 

Dow closes more than 200 points lower, falls for a second straight week as recession fears grow

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/15/stock-futures-are-down-slightly-as-investors-continue-sell-off.html

 

Elon Musk is using the Twitter Files to discredit foes and push conspiracy theories

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/14/1142666067/elon-musk-is-using-the-twitter-files-to-discredit-foes-and-push-conspiracy-theor

 

The ‘free’ market: hogtied, shot, & drowned

https://hightowerlowdown.org/article/the-free-market-hogtied-shot-drowned/

 

“If We Make It Through December” - A Reason To Give

https://steady.substack.com/p/if-we-make-it-through-december

 

Dubious Challenges to Biden’s Student Debt Order Keep Piling Up at the Supreme Court: It’s by no means clear that the high court will ultimately spike the administration’s loan forgiveness plan, but it will have a range of opportunities.

https://newrepublic.com/article/169531/student-debt-challenges-supreme-court

 

Fascism Has a Friend in Car Repossession – Dec 19, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaT1YHSMufg

 

What would it take to end homelessness in California? $8 billion a year for 12 years.  A new, first-of-its-kind report lays out a plan — and cost estimate — to end homelessness in California.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/20/what-will-it-cost-to-end-homelessness-in-california-8-billion-a-year-for-12-years/

 

Biden administration plans to cut homelessness 25% by 2025: New data shows an estimated 582,462 unhoused people in the U.S.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/19/biden-administration-plans-to-cut-homelessness-25-by-2025/

 

They Own More Than The Entire Working Class? – Dec 20, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz8XuQfMUvI

 

After two difficult Covid winters, the current season of respiratory sickness in the United States already rivals some of the worst cold and flu seasons on record — and it started about two months early.

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