Fixing Our Broken
Health Care System Is Not Hard: If only the health care system received the
same treatment that military spending gets from politicians and the public.
https://www.laprogressive.com/healthcare-issues/fixing-our-broken-health-care-system
The UC Strike
Could Be Transformative: A total of 48,000 are on strike, making this the
largest and most important strike in the history of American higher education.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/the-uc-strike-could-be-transformative
Capitalism Hits
Home: Broken Social Bonds – Dec 22, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nghsYJiZZxg
Richard Wolff on
Slavery, Unions, Education, and Debt – Dec 21, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQNdCl5C37w
Ask Prof Wolff
LIVE: The Manipulation of Labor Markets – Dec 23, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O5eBz1MsK8
Economic Update:
Surging US Labor Activism – Jan 2, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okJ7i-uo3Og
Is Bitcoin Even
Money? The Grim Future For Crypto Currency Featuring Richard Wolff – Jan 4,
2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKszhJ7p4Lc
Ask Prof Wolff:
Ethics in Capitalist vs. Cooperative Enterprises – Jan 4, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eTk5XFxCmA
Ask Prof Wolff:
Why are National Infrastructure Banks Necessary? – Jan 6, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Ph8uBYKj0
Economic Update:
What's Wrong with Capitalism? – Jan 9, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg28P1uOrWU
Global
Capitalism: The Second War In Ukraine [January 2023] – Jan 11, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGBAKRzoJ1o
Ask Prof Wolff: Labor Unions, Leadership Corruption, and
Co-ops – Jan 13, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz0tnAvwzs0
Economic Update:
"American Midnight" Democracy's Forgotten Crisis – Jan 16, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjbbHoX2Vhw
Ask Prof Wolff:
Consumer Co-ops vs. Worker Co-ops – Jan 18, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v_E2USe1YM
Ask Prof Wolff:
Why Yale and Other Non-Profits Should Be Called "Tax-Exempt" – Jan
20, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B8nHt9XyOE
Economic Update:
Economics For A New Year – Jan 23, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7xR2sNB8fo
Carter introduces
Fair Tax Act. “The Fair Tax Act continues the 40-year US scam: redistributing
wealth and income from middle and poor to the richest. Once again, its
right-wing pols hide redistribution as "tax reform." Anybody fooled?
Such regressive tax schemes always redistribute wealth.” – Richard D.
Wolff
https://buddycarter.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx
Ask Prof Wolff:
Shouldn't We Have a Political Party That Isn't Capitalist? – Jan 25, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmIrUMWt4iA
Ask Prof Wolff:
Why Retired Individuals Are Critical For Social Change – Jan 27, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um5RrhZR2jE
Economic Update:
A Corporatized America with Chris Hedges – Jan 30, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnv1VRwLS04
Marxist Economist
Richard Wolff on How the Debt Ceiling Benefits the Rich & Powerful – Jan
31, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR6n7ANHbu4
Ask Prof Wolff:
Capitalism is Unstable… and It’s Designed That Way – Feb 1, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOm18QXQG54
Ask Prof Wolff:
Is Capitalism a Religion? – Feb 3, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svvRAiPhpWA
Economic Update:
2023 World Economic Trends – Feb 6, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU-kdnZa4m4
Ask Prof Wolff: How
To Get People on the Right to Hear Your Arguments – Feb 8, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGZEvTa6oYU
The Temple Lung
Center is one of the nation’s premier lung-disease centers thanks in part to
supporters like you.
On the Decline -
Katie Couric – Wake-Up Call
https://link.katiecouric.com/view/5e8b8842b523ad1d4a17c215hwehl.2k12/94fbfce1
American Life
Expectancy Is Dropping — And It’s Not Just Because of Covid
https://katiecouric.com/health/american-life-expectancy-covid-overdoses/
U.S. life
expectancy continued to fall in 2021 as covid, drug deaths surged: An American
child born in 2021 could expect to live to 76.4 years, according to the latest
government data
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/12/22/us-life-expectancy-decline-2021-covid-fentanyl/
John Molyneux:
Marxist in theory and practice. Ian
Birchall and Pat Stack pay tribute to John Molyneux, one of the IS tradition’s
most original thinkers and writers, who died suddenly last week.
https://www.rs21.org.uk/2022/12/21/john-molyneux-marxist-in-theory-and-practice/
Escalating rail
strikes is the way to win
https://www.rs21.org.uk/2022/12/11/escalating-rail-strikes-is-the-way-to-win/
Mother, son
fulfill kindergarten promise as they graduate college together: Immanuel Patton
graduates from UMGC alongside his mom, Carolyn Patton
Trump’s Tax
Returns Reflect a Broader American Problem: When dealing with rich and
aggressive financial operators, the Internal Revenue Service often finds itself
overmatched.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/trumps-tax-returns-reflect-a-broader-american-problem
How Striking
Academic Workers Can Make The University Obsolete: In unsettling the ideology
of this neoliberal institution and site of inaccessible education, we reveal
the capitalist extraction we’re fighting against.
https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/make-the-university-obsolete
Hightower: Ready
for Corporate America's robot economy?
Jim Hightower: A
'locally grown' Thanksgiving
Letters to the
Editor: Fed Flails at Inflation; Biden Needs to Close the Border; Blob Provoked
Russia; Believe the Truth; Yeah, That’s Us; Sour Notes
https://www.populist.com/28.21.Letters.html
Nutrition and
Diet Starts on the Farm
https://www.populist.com/28.21.McMillen.html
Dispatches:
CONGRESS REPORTS CORPORATIONS USE INFLATION TO ‘RAISE PRICES EXCESSIVELY;’
HOUSE DEMS PROPOSE END TO WALL STREET RENT-GOUGING; JOB GROWTH REMAINS STRONG
AS WAGE GROWTH SETTLES, BUT FED GOES AHEAD WITH INTEREST HIKE; SENATE REPORT
DETAILS LATEST PRIVATIZED MEDICARE SCANDAL; SO MUCH FOR INFLATION AND GAS
PRICES. HOUSE GOP AGENDA IS REVENGE; TRUMP SUES NEW YORK AG LETICIA JAMES.
https://www.populist.com/28.21.Dispatches.html
Don’t Bet Against
the Latest Supermarket Super Merger
https://www.populist.com/28.21.Guebert.html
The
Infrastructure Program's Chain Reaction
https://www.populist.com/28.21.Conway.html
Why Would Any
Voter Trust Republicans To Make A 'Better' Economy?
https://www.nationalmemo.com/republican-economic-record
Back to School
Blues Linger Without the Child Tax Credit: Months on, many parents are still
reeling from back to school expenses — especially since the Child Tax Credit
expired.
https://www.populist.com/28.21.Sepulveda.html
Is Most of
America's Inflation Due to Monopolies, Price Gouging and Oil Barons Fleecing
Us? The most important takeaway from
today’s inflation crisis is that we must get our corporations back under
control if we’re to have an economy that works for us instead of just for the
billionaires
https://www.populist.com/28.21.Hartmann.html
Robert B. Reich:
Musk must relinquish Twitter
JESSE JACKSON:
Federal Reserve Determined to Stop Growth
https://www.washingtoninformer.com/jesse-jackson-federal-reserve-determined-to-stop-growth/
Stalling the
Surge in Insulin Prices: A Thanksgiving Tale
https://www.populist.com/28.21.Retsinas.html
California
Refiners' Profits Spur Scrutiny from Special Legislative Session
https://www.populist.com/28.21.Sandronsky.html
Europe: Great
Public Systems and Eroding Public Confidence.
Today on TAP: The nations of the EU are fast depleting the legacy of a
decent social compact.
Southwest cancels
70% of its flights as travelers try to get home: The airline acknowledged that
it had been crippled by winter weather and said it plans to fly about one-third
of its schedule in the coming days as it recovers.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/southwest-cancels-70-flights-travelers-try-get-home-rcna63289
4th Washington
state electrical substation vandalized
The Rural
Turnaround: Democrats have a long way to go to win in rural America — but the
road map is there.
https://www.populist.com/28.22.Kuttner.html
Poverty and the
Holidays
https://www.populist.com/28.22.Rollins.html
Would You Like
Chips with That?
https://www.populist.com/28.22.McMillen.html
And the Numbers
Prove It
https://www.populist.com/28.22.Guebert.html
Watching Workers’
Backs on Trade
https://www.populist.com/28.22.Conway.html
The Crushing
Health Care Cost Burden that Never Came
https://www.populist.com/28.22.Baker.html
The Saga of the
Revolving Door, the Steep Staircase, the Narrow Doorway … “Accessibility.” Enough with “accessibility.”
https://www.populist.com/28.22.Retsinas.html
Fountain Pens: To
Put a Fine Point on Shrinking Checks
https://www.populist.com/28.22.Uretsky.html
The Economics of
Immigration
https://www.populist.com/28.22.OLeary.html
A Deficit
Spending Scam Destroyed UK’s Prime Minister—Who’s Next?
https://www.rdwolff.com/a_deficit_spending_scam_destroyed_uk_s_prime_minister_who_s_next
My Father and
Sarah Palin
https://www.populist.com/28.22.Friedman.html
California
Academic Workers Strike University of California Campuses
https://www.populist.com/28.22.Sandronsky.html
Nancy Fraser’s
Lessons From the Long History of Capitalism: She talked to The Nation about
capitalism’s evolutions and what the left can do to better prepare for the next
political crisis.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/qa-nancy-fraser/
Before Taylor
Swift, Pearl Jam Knew Ticketmaster’s Monopoly Power All Too Well: In 1994,
Pearl Jam tried to end Ticketmaster’s dominance. Can Taylor Swift fans do what
the grunge band couldn’t?
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/ticketmaster-live-nation-pearl-jam-taylor-swift/
America Online: A
Cautionary Tale. On the rise and fall of
the quintessential ’90s online service provider—and a warning about today’s
social-media giants.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/aol-facebook-america-online/
How Food Became a
Weapon in the Right’s Culture Wars: First came the politics of right-wing
grievance. Then came the new foodie culture. Together, they combined to create
one toxic food fight.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/food-culture-wars-1990s/
The Birth of a
New Brand of Exercise Fetish: From Bikram yoga to Tae Bo, the 1990s exploded
with exoticized consumer fitness products.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bikram-yoga-exercise-tae-bo/
Suburban Arcades:
What was the shopping mall?
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alexandra-lange-malls/
Unsettling
Tensions: Nell Zink’s California.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nell-zink-avalon/
Senator Elizabeth
Warren questions Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf at Banking Committee Hearing –
2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJhkX74D10M&list=RDCMUCTH9zV8Imw09J5bOoTR18_A&start_radio=1
Smart Ass
Cripple: What Doctors Don’t Understand About Disability. When it turns out we're not interested in
being 'cured,' health professionals often write us off as a lost cause.
https://progressive.org/magazine/smart-ass-cripple-what-doctors-don%E2%80%99t-understand-ervin/
Work Won't Love
You Back: Reproductive Health Workers Have Rights, Too. Clinic workers and advocates face a future in
which the only certainty is that their jobs will get harder. Amid the latest
wave of labor organizing, they're pushing for better.
https://progressive.org/magazine/work-wont-love-you-back-repro-health-workers-jaffe-091922/
Teachers Are
Feeling the Heat: It’s been a rough two decades for teachers, but the last two
and a half years might have been the worst.
https://progressive.org/magazine/teachers-are-feeling-the-heat-greene/
We Need Truly
Free Community College for All: As a policy it's been dismissed, trivialized,
and now back-burnered by a sympathetic President. But it would be a game-changer.
https://progressive.org/magazine/we-need-truly-free-community-college-berryhill/
Finding Cash for
Kids: Congress failed to extend the expanded Child Tax Credit, which cut
childhood poverty by nearly a third. Now, states are adopting their own
versions.
https://progressive.org/magazine/finding-cash-for-kids-thomhave/
A Matter of Life
and Debt: Ambulance bills are causing lifelong financial damage to those who
can least afford it.
https://progressive.org/magazine/a-matter-of-life-and-debt-johnson/
Fighting for the
Right to Die: It shouldn’t be a crime for those who are too sick to live to
decide how and when to end their suffering.
https://progressive.org/magazine/fighting-for-the-right-to-die-wilder/
The Activist
Offering: Finding Support in a Post-Roe World: Much of the country has been in
a post-Roe reality for years.
https://progressive.org/magazine/finding-support-in-a-post-roe-world-black/
The Activist
Offering: Finding a New North Star: We have the chance to reimagine what
radical access to abortion can and should look like for all people.
https://progressive.org/magazine/activist-offering-finding-a-new-north-star-black/
The Great Charter
School Scam: Three charters abruptly closed in North Carolina this year due to
fraud, disrupting the lives of hundreds of families and highlighting a national
crisis.
https://progressive.org/magazine/the-great-charter-school-scam-burris/
Book Review:
Fightin’ for the Union. An activist
memoir chronicles one of the United Auto Workers most militant locals—and takes
pages from its notorious underground newspaper.
https://progressive.org/magazine/fightin-for-the-union-gunn/
Hemming and
Hawing: A Debt to Our Kids. Shouldn’t
kids learn about real day-to-day financial tools before they learn about
volatile blockchain currencies that may not make it?
https://progressive.org/magazine/hemming-hawing-debt-to-our-kids-farsad/
Labor Rising: Is
the working class experiencing a new CIO moment?
https://progressive.org/magazine/labor-rising-jaffe/
Buy Now, Pay
Later, Risk Disaster: Companies like Afterpay and Affirm push their services as
a safe alternative to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. Are they?
https://progressive.org/magazine/delaying-payment-courting-disaster-berryhill/
Patching Up Paid
Leave: Big business helped block paid family and medical leave from Build Back
Better, but the need has never been more urgent.
https://progressive.org/magazine/patching-up-paid-leave-bader/
Where Olof Palme
Left Off: A student travels to Stockholm in search of ways to meet the global
goals of eliminating poverty, protecting the planet, and creating a more just
society.
https://progressive.org/magazine/where-olof-palme-left-off-moore/
The Costs Lurking
in Self Storage: Caught between a housing crisis and post-pandemic inflation,
storage unit renters can become easy prey.
https://progressive.org/magazine/the-costs-lurking-in-self-storage-kuhlenbeck/
Book Review:
Imagining a Radically New Economic Model.
In ‘A Participatory Economy’, radical economist Robin Hahnel offers a
blueprint for replacing capitalism.
https://progressive.org/magazine/book-review-imagining-a-radically-new-economic-model-gunn/
Hemming and
Hawing: The Thing That Rhymes with ‘Schmositive’. What if we said positive things about our
government, about what it is accomplishing, and what we’re hopeful it can
accomplish?
https://progressive.org/magazine/the-thing-that-rhymes-with-schmositive-farsad/
Edge of Sports:
Justice for Minor League Baseball Players.
Pauperism in the league has been a national disgrace for years. Now
things may finally be changing.
https://progressive.org/magazine/justice-for-minor-league-baseball-players-zirin/
Good News for the
65 Million Americans Who Rely on Social Security: With their run-off victory in
Georgia, Democrats now have a mandate to protect Social Security. Here’s what
they need to do next.
https://www.populist.com/29.01.Altman.html
Congress: Help
Struggling Families Before It’s Too Late.
Lawmakers are considering year-end tax breaks for corporations. A little
help for families like yours and mine would go much further.
https://www.populist.com/29.01.Izabel.html
Union Solidarity
Is Driving Better Health Care
https://www.populist.com/29.01.Conway.html
The November Jobs
Report Was Not as Strong as Advertised
https://cepr.net/the-november-jobs-report-was-not-as-strong-as-advertised/
The one thing you
need to know about the railroads: It's not that a rail strike would be bad for
the economy
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-one-thing-you-need-to-know-about
Children: A
Modern Take on Dickens
https://www.populist.com/29.01.Retsinas.html
UC union strikers
ratify new contract, but some enter mediation
https://www.populist.com/29.01.Sandronsky.html
Medicare is
Dying: Where are the Democrats?
https://www.populist.com/29.01.OLeary.html
Elon Musk May Not
Be So Brilliant After All: As Twitter implodes under Musk’s rule, a lawsuit
argues Tesla is vastly overpaying the world’s richest man.
https://www.populist.com/29.01.Pizzigati.html
We Need a Smaller
Pentagon: Sorry, but we have too many other needs in this country to spend $847
billion on a department that can’t even pass an audit.
https://www.populist.com/29.01.Koshgarian.html
Republicans Are
Coming After Your Social Security
https://www.populist.com/29.01.Anderson.html
I’m not dieting
to lose weight; I’m eating whole foods to lose pain.
The Culture War
on Public Education: It’s time to recognize the real target of the book bans
and gag orders dominating national headlines: your local school.
https://progressive.org/magazine/the-culture-war-on-public-education-greene/
Taking Our School
Boards Back: Board meetings in North Carolina's largest school district, like
others around the country, have been dominated by hostile rightwing
‘activists.’ Then local progressives stepped in.
https://progressive.org/magazine/taking-our-school-boards-back-job-121222/
A State of
Neglect: Crumbling infrastructure is causing low morale among public university
students and faculty.
https://progressive.org/magazine/a-state-of-neglect-bader/
Interview: The
Digital Intersection Without a Traffic Light.
Alex Winter discusses his latest documentary, which examines the monolithic
power of YouTube.
https://progressive.org/magazine/interview-alex-winter-digital-intersection-roberts/
Book Excerpt: How
to Change the World. The COVID-19
pandemic made it clear that inequality kills. We must respond.
https://progressive.org/magazine/book-excerpt-how-to-change-the-world-bezruchka/
Is Autism Really
a Spectrum?
https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/is-autism-really-a-spectrum/
Understanding
Gluten
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/10/understanding-gluten/
The Protest Camp
Where Houseless Activists Fight Luxury High Rises: Houseless protesters in
Chicago occupied a parking lot and then set up a long-term camp to fight
gentrification—with the support of the neighborhood.
Independent
Unions Are Great—And Proof of Labor's Broken Institutions: The inspiring wave
of independent labor organizing also represents the failure of existing unions.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/independent-unions-labor-amazon-trader-joes-apple-geico
Why Aren’t
Workers at Unions Eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness? While Biden has taken steps to provide
student debt cancellation, union workers are excluded from a key relief
program—while workers at anti-labor groups like the Heritage Foundation are
covered.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/student-debt-relief-biden-pslf-union-labor
Amy’s Kitchen
Workers Protested Their Working Conditions. Then They All Lost Their Jobs.
“They treat you
like you’re nothing. Like cockroaches.”
https://inthesetimes.com/article/amys-kitchen-freezes-union-organizing
Inflation
Misinformation: Inflation myths only benefit the rich.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/inflation-capitalism-energy-economy-corporate-greed
How the Story of
Soccer Became the Story of Everything: Oligarchs, private-equity moguls, and
petro states took over the sport—and the world.
Remarkable Photos
Show What Harm Reduction Actually Looks Like: Don’t believe the conservative
fear mongering.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/harm-reduction-opioid-overdose-naloxone-epidemic-biden/
America, It’s
Time to Free the Pill: It’s safe and effective, and may soon be offered
over-the-counter. What took so long?
Why Harvesting
Solar Energy Is a Win for America’s Farmers: Agrivoltaics reduce emissions,
save water, and may even boost crop yields.
Will Lithium
Mining Turn California's Salton Sea into a Green Energy Sacrifice Zone? Once a tourist destination, the Salton Sea
faces ecological collapse, toxic dust storms—and maybe a lithium boom.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/lithium-mining-california-salton-sea-green-energy
Biden’s Marijuana
Reform Plan Is a Good Start. He Can’t Stop There. The Biden administration has taken the first
step to ending harsh and discriminatory laws around marijuana. But it’s a far
cry from justice for all those impacted.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/biden-marijuana-reform-legalization-pardon-midterms
Elites Are
Clueless, and so on: Kurt Vonnegut’s words live on.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/elites-are-clueless-and-so-on
Southwest planes
are back in the air -- and the apologies keep flying, too
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/southwest-flight-cancellations-friday/index.html
S&P 500
closes out dismal year with worst loss since 2008
https://www.ksl.com/article/50548249/sp-500-closes-out-dismal-year-with-worst-loss-since-2008
IM 2022: The Year
in Review - 9 days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RluDSMkBf4
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profit organization and movement advocate whose mission is to transform the entirety
of the quality, affordability, security, equity, universal access, and public
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PUBLIC HOSTAGE
PUBLIC RANSOM: ENDING INSTITUTIONAL AMERICA
https://www.publichostagepublicransom.org/
Nursing Unions
and Nurses Predicted Current Hospital Crisis: Nursing Unions say the problem
isn’t a lack of nurses — it’s a lack of nurses willing to work under the
deliberate, short-staffed conditions in the industry.
https://www.laprogressive.com/healthcare-issues/nursing-unions-and-nurses
Croatia becomes a
fully-integrated member of the EU
https://www.politico.eu/article/croatia-join-euro-free-movement-schengen-area/
Wake-Up Call by
Katie Couric Media
https://link.katiecouric.com/view/5e8b8842b523ad1d4a17c215hxxji.2ks5/5d6af19f
All Things Co-op:
Developing the Co-op Sector – Jan 3, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puuN1i1j6yI
Big Banks Predict
Recession, Fed Pivot in 2023: More than two-thirds of economists at 23 major
financial institutions expect the U.S. to have a downturn this year
https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-banks-predict-recession-fed-pivot-in-2023-11672618563
Factbox:
Corporate America lays off thousands as recession worries mount
Achieving
Bipartisan Support for Co-ops - All Things Co-op – Jan 4, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42WGVYYcJyw
Capitalism Hits
Home: Waking Up to the Falling American Empire – Jan 5, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCiJlQFyXvs
Tokyo is so
crowded the government is paying families to leave
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/04/business/japan-pay-families-relocate-tokyo-intl-hnk/index.html
The NFL Has a
Damar Hamlin Problem: The league has historically quickly brushed aside
tragedies and catastrophic injuries. The Bills’ safety’s shocking cardiac
arrest is different.
https://newrepublic.com/article/169790/nfl-damar-hamlin-cardiac-arrest
The lack of young
employees and scarce pension funds in Japan means many seniors there work well
into their 70s.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/07/world/asia/japan-workers-retirement.html
When anti-vaxxers
blame tragedies like Grant Wahl’s death on Covid vaccines, they put us all at
risk, says Céline Gounder, an epidemiologist and Wahl’s widow.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/opinion/grant-wahl-celine-gounder-vaccine.html
On the cover: A
doctor is on a crusade to treat Boston’s homeless population.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/05/magazine/boston-homeless-dr-jim-oconnell.html
Europe’s
inflation slows again but cost of living still high
GOP Immediately
Union-Busting: Aims to Stop Congressional Union: Under the Congressional
Accountability Act, rights that have already been implemented can't simply be
taken away absent new legislation to change the act itself.
https://www.laprogressive.com/democracy/gop-immediately-union-busting
Money From
Nothing: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Shakedown.
The late crypto platform FTX was a clearinghouse of info-capitalist
delusion.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/money-from-nothing/
The Question:
Rachel Aviv’s report from psychiatry’s gray zones.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/rachel-aviv-strangers-to-ourselves/
The Tipping
Point: D.C.’s restaurant industry has defeated efforts to raise the minimum
wage for restaurant workers before. This year, advocates believe they have a
winning campaign.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/10/30/dc-tipped-wage-initiative-82/
Why I Can’t
Afford to Live Where I Grew Up: I’m a proud daughter of Arlington, Virginia.
But its land use policies are keeping homeownership out of reach for natives
like me.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/10/30/arlington-virginia-missing-middle-housing-zoning/
The Electricity
Is Too Damn High: High prices at corporate-owned EV charging stations could
cripple the spread of climate-friendly transportation. We need to help the
mom-and-pops compete.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/10/30/the-electricity-is-too-damn-high/
How Hospital
Monopolies Drive Up the Cost of Care: Hospitals were never meant to be operated
like businesses. To improve our health care system, hospital concentration must
be regulated.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/10/30/how-hospital-monopolies-drive-up-the-cost-of-care/
Late Corporatism:
Since ancient times, corporations have tended to devour the societies that
created them. But history shows they can also be tamed.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/10/30/for-profit-history-corporations/
Starbucks Workers
Are Unionizing. Their Bosses Are Refusing to Bargain. After a banner year for organizing the retail
and service industries, workers are learning a hard truth about labor
negotiations.
https://newrepublic.com/article/169580/starbucks-workers-unionizing-bosses-refusing-bargain
Why For Profit
Healthcare Is Giant, Bloodsucking Tick On The Working Class… - Jan 10, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlQuEsx4MJY
Should Seniors
Work Until They Die? Debate Featuring Charles Sauer – Jan 10, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOWadcJgNsQ
Remodeled
Shipping Containers—‘LA style’: Solution for America’s Affordable Housing
Shortage?
A remodeled,
stacked container shelter in Los Angeles has been winning design awards and
plaudits from its temporary residents and could be a model elsewhere.
https://www.laprogressive.com/homelessness/remodeled-shipping-containers
World Bank warns
global economy could tip into recession in 2023
Powell Says Fed
Will Not Become a ‘Climate Policy Maker’: To protect its independence to set
interest rates and combat inflation, the central bank can’t wade into
extraneous issues, says Fed Chair Jerome Powell
How to reduce
your Medicare bills
https://www.legion.org/news/257848/how-reduce-your-medicare-bills
Home Depot to
change pay policy for hourly employees
War Is More
Profitable, for Some, than Peace: More so than many large bureaucratic
organizations, the U.S. defense establishment now devotes a large share of its
efforts to self-perpetuation
https://www.laprogressive.com/war-and-peace/war-is-more-profitable-than-peace
Anti-Capitalist
Chronicles: Capital in Motion – Jan 12, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdmAcJ0rDOw
How Walgreens
manufactured a media frenzy about shoplifting
https://popular.info/p/how-walgreens-manufactured-a-media
Declaring War on
Education as a Public Good: Education did not always come at such a high cost
in America, where public education was once treated as a public good.
https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/declaring-war-on-education
The New World
Economy: The confluence of global change, disruption, and danger is astounding.
Solutions lie in understanding the New World Economy, cooperation, and problem
solving.
https://www.laprogressive.com/latin-america-2/the-new-world-economy
Capitalism Needs
Guardrails: Capitalism needs guardrails. Without them, unfettered greed which
leads to monopolies that charge high prices, suppress wages, and corrupt
politics runs rampant.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/capitalism-needs-guardrails
UPS and the
Package Wars: The company offers old-fashioned middle-class jobs and is
enjoying record profits. So why is a strike looming?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/can-ups-still-deliver-a-middle-class-life
A Message for the
Federal Reserve in the New Inflation Data: As a new report shows price
pressures easing, should the central bank rethink its strategy of raising
interest rates?
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New Mayor Tackles
Unhoused LA: Aggressive Politics for Meaningful Results: The next six months
will say a lot about whether Mayor Bass can overcome LA’s housing morass. If progress
isn’t made, swing votes on the council could be lost.
https://www.laprogressive.com/homelessness/new-mayor-tackles-unhoused
Reviving America,
One College Town at a Time: How symbiotic relationships between colleges and
their communities have reaped rewards in Erie, Pennsylvania, and Waterville,
Maine.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/01/08/reviving-america-one-college-town-at-a-time/
Medicine at the
Mercy of Wall Street: Investment bankers turn publicly funded pharmaceuticals
into privately held gold mines. Reforming the patent system would change that.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/01/08/medicine-at-the-mercy-of-wall-street/
Do Republicans
Think WWIII Will Help Them Politically? – Jan 16, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hejlOZIQr8
Can America
Abolish Poverty? – Jan 16, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rFsopqM9Us
Can America
Employ Everyone? Featuring Algernon Austin – Jan 16, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmeGgprbltY
State of the
Working Class – Jan 17,2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcDXL1T1FkI
Elite Capture:
Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on How the Powerful Took Over Identity
Politics – Jan 18, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81cLuGAwM9Y
End Medical Debt:
The Fight to Stop Hospitals from Suing Patients, Garnishing Wages, Ruining
Credit – Jan 18, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0U_8XeCxeM
The Dark Reason
The Rich Hate Democracy Revealed – Jan 18, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gCtWxfrPIg
Capitalism Hits
Home: Ukraine War & Our Coping Mechanisms – Jan 19, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt4icCkd-ZM
The Real Reason
the Rich Flock to Davos… - Jan 19, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l11-arfrqKg
Five Things the
Stanford University Rent Control Study Gets Wrong: Reporters almost never
mention studies by experts at USC, UCLA, and UC Berkeley that found rent
control is a key tool to stabilize the housing affordability crisis.
https://www.laprogressive.com/homelessness/stanford-university-rent-control-study
Closing Obscene
Pay Gaps: We are seeing more support for many strategies to address obscene pay
gaps, including proposals to use tax and contracting policies to rein in
executive excess.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/closing-obscene-pay-gaps
The Senate Puts
Pregnant Workers on the Verge of Getting New Protections: A bill to ensure that
pregnant workers receive accommodations on the job has been approved as an
amendment to the must-pass omnibus spending bill.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/pregnant-workers-fairness-act-2/
Protect Democracy
by Bolstering Organized Labor: The Democrats must adopt long-term strategies to
address the ongoing threats to American democracy.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/protect-democracy-organized-labor/
Republicans renew
call for spending cuts before raising debt limit
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2023/01/22/debt-limit-biden-gop/
The American Way
to Solve the Debt Crisis: Our forefathers turned their debts into currency.
That Constitutional approach could work today.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/solve-the-debt-crisis
Google Stock
Climbs After Firing 12,000 Employees—But What Did They Get? The tech sector is laying off tens of
thousands of workers, making it clear that economic growth is currently valued
above all else.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/google-watches-its-stock-climb
Housing Crisis
Burns While City Council Fiddles
2022: The Year of
the Workers
https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/12/22/2022-the-year-of-the-workers
Gimme Some of
That Old-Time Socialism
https://www.populist.com/29.02.ArtCullen.html
Commodity Markets
See Winter Thaw, Securities Markets Remain in Deep Ice
https://www.populist.com/29.02.Guebert.html
Living Proof
https://www.populist.com/29.02.Conway.html
Who Will Talk Jay
Powell off the Ledge? He has committed
the Fed to an interest rate course that will create a needless recession, and
he refuses to admit that inflation is subsiding on its own.
https://www.populist.com/29.02.Kuttner.html
Fixing the Broken
American Healthcare System is Not Actually Hard: If only the health care system
received the same treatment that military spending gets from politicians and
the public.
https://www.populist.com/29.02.Kolhatkar.html
The Battle for
America’s Soul: The Dilemma of the Poor
https://www.populist.com/29.02.Retsinas.html
Get the Facts
Right on Contraception
https://www.populist.com/29.02.Uretsky.html
The Real
Inflation
https://www.populist.com/29.02.OLeary.html
What to Know
About Cellphone Radiation
https://www.propublica.org/article/what-to-know-about-cellphone-radiation
UC strike over,
but questions remain over new contracts
https://www.populist.com/29.02.Sandronsky.html
Reading Tijuana:
One Manifestation of Capitalism in Urbanization - Cities After... – Jan 25,
2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAQ5d_lbEpc
Is Inequality
America’s Worst Killer? Featuring Stephen Bezruchka – Jan 25, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlzefzf_qmI
Can We Abolish
The Debt Ceiling? – Jan 25, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxcAQkhvUNI
Why The Media
Won’t Give Democrats Air Time – Jan 25, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-e172grc3E
Biden Proposes
Renters Bill of Rights as Landlords Make Record Profits; Housing Advocates Want
More – Jan 26, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SIKKvxSl5k
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles:
Making Sense of Today’s Inflation - Debt, Austerity and Tax Cuts – Jan 26, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_nCUoyQis4
Ask Live with the
hosts of All Things Co-op – Jan 27, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T9mVFFJjMQ
L.A. City Leaders
Look to Permanent Safeguards as Covid-Era Tenant Protections Lapse: Advocates
warn that without immediate action rising evictions will complicate efforts to
combat homelessness.
https://www.laprogressive.com/homelessness/tenant-protections
California saw
nearly 20% more deaths since 2020, and COVID alone can’t explain it. The state has seen the biggest rise in causes
of death in drug overdoses, Alzheimer’s disease and alcohol-related conditions.
Rep. Ro Khanna: A
New Economic Patriotism Can Help Unite Our Divided Congress | Opinion
The Supreme Court
Is About to Make It Even Riskier to Strike: The Roberts court is famously anti-union.
With Glacier Northwest v. Teamsters, it’s poised to make it easier for
employers to sue striking workers.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/supreme-court-strike-glacier-v-teamsters/
Why It’s Okay for
Progressives to Enjoy Sam Bankman-Fried’s Downfall: The fallen plutocrat was
also the chief financier of a counterrevolution inside the Democratic Party.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/sam-bankman-fried-progressives/
LA’s Grand
Experiment in UBI: Last year, the city sent $1,000 a month to 3,200 people. The
Nation followed four participants throughout the duration of the program.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/la-ubi-big-leap/
Meet Dennis Oya,
Patient Zero of the TB Outbreak Sweeping Washington’s Prisons: A Nation
investigation into the latest deadly side effect of mass incarceration.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tb-washington-state-prisons/
Exxon Vaults to
Record Annual Profit of $55.7 Billion: Only Apple and Microsoft so far have
surpassed Exxon’s fiscal 2022 profit
https://www.wsj.com/articles/exxon-mobil-xom-q4-earnings-report-2022-11675128584
Wages continue to
rise, but they still aren’t keeping pace with inflation
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/31/economy/workers-wages-fourth-quarter
Americans Want Government-Run
Health Care—Why Can't They Have It? It’s
true that the number of uninsured Americans has dropped to an all-time low. But
that fact obscures the failures of our patchwork, profit-driven health care system.
https://www.laprogressive.com/healthcare-issues/government-run-health-care
Higher Education
Policy and Politics: A reminder that in the US there is no ministry of education
as there is in almost all other nations.
https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/higher-education-policy-politics
Capitalism Hits
Home: What Are The Personal Costs of Inflation? – Feb 2, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmLaDGzsk0Q
Apple Sales
Shrink as Pandemic Rally Ends for iPhone Maker, Other Tech Giants: Quarterly
revenue fell at Apple for the first time in nearly four years; Amazon, Google
earnings also disappoint investors
https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-aapl-q1-earnings-report-2023-11675281851
This is the
operating system Edward Snowden recommends - 2 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8-B9d7iz1A
The American
people want to expand Social Security, not cut it. – Feb 4, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBThqBFbQfs
Inflation Reality
Check: Don’t Blame Wages and Salaries for High Prices. Bigger paychecks for
ordinary workers are not driving higher prices—and they haven’t grown nearly as
much as corporate profits.
Payday Report
Covering Labor in News Deserts, February 6, 2023
Evening Wrap,
February 6, 2023 – Medicaid, etc.
French Workers
and Youth Loudly Protest to Oppose Austerity: French unions, a resurgent left,
and much of the public are saying the obvious: early retirement age and a
shorter workweek can be funded through a wealth tax.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/french-workers-and-youth
Republicans LOSE
IT as Democrats score surprise win – Feb 7, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL-OWUbuNy8
Cities After...
Neo-Imperialism & Neo-Fascism at the Border – Feb 7, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGAAf_K8J4Q
US spends most on
healthcare, has worst outcomes, finds Commonwealth FundThe U.S. has the lowest
life expectancy at birth, the highest maternal and infant mortality and among
the highest suicide rates.
Ronald Reagan and
The Great Social Security Heist: The author says that the Social Security
amendments passed under Reagan’s presidency laid the foundation for 30 years of
embezzlement of the trust funds.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2013/10/11/ronald-reagan-and-the-great-social-security-heist/
FACT SHEET: The
Biden Economic Plan Is Working
Pa. judge rules
state's funding of public education violates students' constitutional rights –
Feb 8, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqyCn0iMtT4
Yes, Republicans
have called for cuts to Social Security and Medicare – Feb 8, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iJKpSUpltE
Disney Plans to
Cut 7,000 Jobs, $5.5 Billion in Costs: Newly reinstated CEO Robert Iger
outlines his plan for the media company
https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-dis-q1-earnings-report-2023-11675825320?mod=hp_lead_pos1
Why the Biden
administration is trying to crack down on those sneaky fees charged by hotels,
rental cars, internet providers and more.
Anti-Capitalist
Chronicles: Applying Marx’s Theories to Contemporary Struggles – Feb 9, 2023
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