Global
Capitalism: The Changing World Economy [May 31, 2023]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcI4XQA5nzA
The U.S.’ Life
Expectancy Problem Is Worse Than We Thought
https://katiecouric.com/health/us-life-expectancy-dropping/
If You’re a
Public School Teacher, There’s Something You Should Know About Your Social
Security
https://katiecouric.com/lifestyle/money/what-is-the-windfall-elimination-provision/
Criminal!
Essential Workers Forced Into Poverty Take Dramatic Action w/ Rob Baril &
Ed Hawthorne – June 6, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMNxeTacKuc
Are You Paid What
You’re Worth? | Robert Reich – June 6, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3NRbF_lJZI
There is a youth
mental health crisis in this country that we must address. – June 12, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51ypq1F8_Og
Report: Eight
Silicon Valley households have six times more wealth than bottom 500,000
4th annual
Silicon Valley Pain Index highlights wealth gap
‘Excessive wealth
disorder’: Should the ultra-rich pay more to help solve America’s problems?
Think tank calls
for more tax on wealthiest .1%
The HELP
Committee will mark up the most significant set of labor law reforms in modern
history. – June 20, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIXduAg2_OU
LIVE: Senate HELP
Committee marks up the most significant set of labor law reforms in modern
history – June 21, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n6aRAK-eAY
Will Bidenomics
Solve Deadly Poverty? While recent
economic numbers may give Biden reason to wax poetic, they also mask the
suffering of millions of Americans shackled by poverty.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/bidenomics
Democrats Better
Fight Like Hell for Student Debt Relief: Immediate action must be taken to
deliver for the tens of millions of borrowers shackled by unjust debt.
https://www.laprogressive.com/los-angeles-2/student-debt-relief
Taking Economic
Justice to the Streets: LA Hospitality Workers, Local 11 Protest. The spirit of solidarity and Unions like
Local 11, grounded in the ethos and strategic vision of nonviolence, are what’s
moving the clock of justice forward.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/economic-justice
What's Wrong with
‘Humanely Raised’ Poultry and Eggs?
Chicken producers are misleading consumers with misinformation.
https://www.laprogressive.com/animal-rights-2/humanely-raised-poultry
Can Americans
Really Make a Free Choice About Dying?
In a country that treats disabled people like expensive burdens and that
teaches people to hate and fear disabilities, activists argue that true bodily
autonomy is not possible.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/end-life-option-act-california-medical-aid-dying/
Next Time,
Dammit, Just Default: Democrats feared a monster called “default”—but it’s just
another Washington scare story.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/default-debt-ceiling-fed/
How Should
Workers Respond to the Supreme Court’s Ruling in Glacier Northwest? The court’s ruling could have been much
worse—and soon will be. Workers and unions need to be prepared.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/supreme-court-glacier-northwest-workers/
There’s No Reason
Filing Taxes Should Be So Hard: In early 2024, a few taxpayers will participate
in a pilot project to file their taxes for free directly to the government.
It’s a great start.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/taxes-direct-file/
Letters From the
June 26/July 3, 2023, Issue: She’s not the boss… Support musicians… The road to
2028… The spiritual left…
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/letters-from-the-june-26-july-3-2023-issue/
How Freddie Mac
Helps Private Equity Profit From Tenant Misery: Overloaded with debt, with
maintenance and repairs cut back to the bone, tenants are being bled dry to
make millions for speculators—with a crucial assist from the Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/freddie-mac-private-equity-housing/
Contract Talks by
Teamsters and the UAW Have the Potential to Change Our Politics: Upcoming
negotiations by these two unions could swing the 2024 election—and help rebuild
democracy.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/teamsters-uaw-strike-votes/
When Death Is the
Best Choice, Is It a Choice at All? Disabled
Canadians need support, but without proper government funding, voluntary death
through MAID may be their only option.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/maid-to-choose/
Economic Update:
Capitalism's Costly Contradictions, July 8, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZqyx7YpsKQ
Alternative
Family Structures are Not New, July 8, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqgXJ8tF1B0
Could Americans
Ever Engage in China-Bashing Without Tripping on Contradictions? China-bashing has intensified into denial and
self-delusion—it is akin to pretending that the United States did not lose wars
in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and more.
https://www.laprogressive.com/asia/china-bashing
Misery Loves
Company Because Companies Love to Create Misery: You live under oppressive lies
and become complicit in forcing that oppression onto others. Your unhappiness
isn’t a personal failing it’s intentional.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/misery-loves-company
Paying 70%,
Owning Nothing: A Curious Business Model.
Paying 70% of the cost while offering our land, resources and cheap
labor force so that a U.S. company can get 100% ownership is not investing in
technology.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/a-curious-business-model
Lifting the Lamp
Beside the Golden Door: A significant number of Americans—though immigrants
all—don’t really want the tired, poor, huddled masses of the world.
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/poetry/golden-door
Docs Flee Red
States
https://www.populist.com/29.11.Edit.html
Chicken Little
Attacks America’s Teachers: Is this how we celebrate National Teacher
Appreciation Week?
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/chicken-little-attacks-americas-teachers#details
How Perverse is
the GOP’s Book Banning Crusade?
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/how-perverse-is-the-gops-book-banning#details
Checking the
Price You Pay for Corporate Food
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/checking-the-price-you-pay-for-corporate#details
Good Words from a
New King
https://www.populist.com/29.11.McMillen.html
Dispatches: HOUSE
GOP HELLBENT ON TANKING ECONOMY—ONE WAY OR ANOTHER; PROGRESSIVES CALL FOR SWIFT
CONFIRMATION OF ANNA GOMEZ TO FCC; PUTIN ISSUES MAGA-APPROVED SANCTION LIST;
RAIL WORKERS UNION WINS ‘TRAILBLAZING’ PAID SICK LEAVE DEAL WITH NORFOLK SOUTHERN;
BIG WIN FOR ANTITRUST, AS JUDGE BLOCKS JETBLUE, AMERICAN AIRLINES ALLIANCE;
WIND AND SOLAR ENERGY SAVED TEXANS $11 BILLION IN 2022. REPUBLICANS WANT TO
CURB IT; STATES AGREE TO REDUCE COLORADO RIVER USE, BUT MORE CUTS NEEDED,
EXPERTS SAY; GIULIANI GOES BALLISTIC ON WOMAN SUING HIM FOR RAPE … THEN QUIETLY
BACKTRACKS; RON DESANTIS JUST COST FLORIDA 2,000 JOBS; and TRUMP & R’S ARE
TERRIFIED OF THEIR SIGNATURE ISSUE — ABORTION BANS.
https://www.populist.com/29.11.Dispatches.html
USDA 2023
Forecasts: Colossal Crops, Measly Prices and Little Backslapping
https://www.populist.com/29.11.Guebert.html
Gig Work is
Getting Dangerous: Underpaid app workers are facing more pressure to accept
risky clients. That’s putting them in danger.
https://www.populist.com/29.11.Avila.html
The Budget Farce:
A Travesty in Two Acts. Watch out for
Act II, the annual budget process for the new fiscal year that begins Oct. 1,
when Democrats will be playing a weaker hand.
https://www.populist.com/29.11.Kuttner.html
Will Biden Pull
It Out in the 14th?
https://www.populist.com/29.11.Baker.html
To Protect Our
Children, Tax the Rich: A campaign to curb greed was key to the first fight
against child labor. With GOP states putting young kids to work, we need that
battle again.
https://www.populist.com/29.11.Pizzigati.html
The Game-Changing
Promise of an OTC Birth Control Pill
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/16/the-game-changing-promise-of-an-otc-birth-control-pill/
Nursing Homes, Or
Pricing Grandma
https://www.populist.com/29.11.Retsinas.html
Government Can’t
Deliver to Rural Areas In Frugal Times
https://www.populist.com/29.11.Uretsky.html
The Debt Ceiling
Debate Is A Massive Deception Against The Public
https://www.populist.com/29.11.Wolff.html
The GOP’s
Sadistic Debt Limit Ploy Is a Direct Attack on People: The GOP message is “hell
for the people, but swell for the plutocracy.”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gop-debt-limit-vs-people
Strike! Writers
Guild of America West Members Stop Work
https://www.populist.com/29.11.Sandronsky.html
Hotel workers
near LAX walk out in second wave of strikes
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-07-10/hotel-workers-walk-out-in-second-wave-of-strikes
Inflation is
‘history’ for the U.S, says veteran economist Steve Hanke
Fox News hit with
another defamation lawsuit — this one over Jan. 6 allegations
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/12/1187318029/fox-news-sued-ray-epps-defamation-jan-6
SAG-AFTRA Strike
Imminent as Talks Conclude With No Deal
https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/sag-aftra-talks-break-down-1235658176/
Jim Hightower: A
labor strike in Hollywood? Why should you care?
What Pan Would
You Take To A Public Protest?
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/what-pan-would-you-take-to-a-public#details
Debt Ceiling
Still Needs to be Dealt With
https://www.populist.com/29.12.McMillen.html
PA Senator
Christine M. Tartaglione Labor Report: July 7, 2023
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100167192.616.150&gen=1
Global Capitalism: Capitalism Turns to the Authoritarian
State [July 2023] – July 12, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0c5Gfh2ZWY
PA Senator
Christine M. Tartaglione Labor Report: July 14, 2023
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100167211.1126.652&gen=1
Next Time,
Abolish the Debt Ceiling: The debt ceiling doesn’t reduce debt — it just
creates one hostage situation after another, as Americans just learned the hard
way.
https://www.populist.com/29.12.Dolan.html
How Contractor
CEOs Get Rich Off Taxpayers: Enormous Pentagon budgets are also inflating CEO
pay at major military contractors. Here’s how to rein in this taxpayer-funded
excess.
https://www.populist.com/29.12.Pizzigati.html
Why We Must Fight
https://www.populist.com/29.12.Kalet.html
Biden, Student
Debt, and the 2024 Election: The president could make generational justice a
big winner for basic decency—and for his re-election.
https://www.populist.com/29.12.Kuttner.html
Once More, the
Washington Debt Ceiling Ritual Ends in a Lousy Deal: What cuts there are come
in all the wrong places.
Low Pay and a
Four-Day Workweek
https://socialistproject.ca/2023/05/low-pay-four-day-workweek/
Whither Common
Sense? Four Health Test Cases
https://www.populist.com/29.12.Retsinas.html
Top US Companies
Admit to Hiking Prices to Pad Their Profits: Analysis. “After an unprecedented 10 interest rate
hikes in a row, it’s clear the corporate profiteering epidemic will persist no
matter how many times the Fed doubles down,” said Liz Zelnick of
Accountable.US.
https://www.populist.com/29.12.Johnson.html
Zombie Banks and
Rogue Bankers
https://www.populist.com/29.12.oleary.html
Will Multiple
Currency Blocs Emerge to Challenge the Dollar?
https://www.populist.com/29.12.Gunasekaran.html
Merger of PGA and
LIV Golf is an Antitrust Violation and a Human Rights Disaster
https://www.populist.com/29.12.Joseph.html
The Shelf Life of
Outrage
https://www.populist.com/29.12.Friedman.html
Technology Needs
Assessments by Congress Municipalities and Local Civic Groups
Big Pharma CEOs
Are Killing Americans for Profit. Here’s How Biden Can Stop Them. The good news is that President Joe Biden has
the power to take on Big Pharma’s greed and substantially lower drug prices
through executive action, without Congress.
https://www.populist.com/29.12.Lawson.html
'Americonned':
the Gap Between Billionaires and Ordinary People
https://www.populist.com/29.12.Rampell.html
Get ready for AI
surveillance at the 2024 Paris Olympics
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/surveillance-paris-olympics-artificial-intelligence/
Gold Stars Buy
Nothing: Why We Should Be More Ambitious About Community Care
Los Angeles'
Unions Real Problem Takes Shape Amid Massive Victory: Those properties will
need workers. Those workers will need a place to live. That place isn’t Los
Angeles. The union’s challenge is only beginning to form.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/los-angeles-unions-problem
Hope for
Pancreatic Cancer
https://www.foxchase.org/blog/hope-pancreatic-cancer
United Airlines
agrees to give union pilots big pay raises
https://apnews.com/article/united-airlines-pilots-pay-raise-d1cf2dcd38d0d267bf8cfd8c652c6750
The Young Miners
Dying of “An Old Man’s Disease”: Black lung is completely preventable. And it’s
on the rise again.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/coal-miners-black-lung-young-dying-old-mans-disease-kim-kelly
Can Iowa
Meatpacking Workers Take on Tyson?
https://inthesetimes.com/article/meatpacking-union-tyson-iowa-2
“I Think I’m Done
Striving”: Delia Cai Against the American Dream. After writing her debut novel, the Central
Places author turns her ambitions to her community
https://inthesetimes.com/article/done-striving-novel-central-places-delia-cai-interview
Death by Debt:
Jessica Madison was a pioneer of the student loan cancellation movement. The
relief that could’ve saved her is now in the hands of the Supreme Court.
The Weight of
Water: Women Mariners Abused at Sea Are Finally Breaking Their Silence. They leave the industry so it remains
overwhelmingly male—perpetuating the hostile environment.
News Never Pays:
Stop pretending that the marketplace will save journalism.
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2023/06/news-never-pays/
The Secret to
Preventing the Next Pandemic Might Be in Our Poop: Covid revealed a powerful
tool in fighting outbreaks: wastewater surveillance.
Repent! The End
of Capitalism Is Nigh! Capitalism,
exploitative by its very nature, has been doomed from the start, but now even
those taught from birth to believe it the only viable economic option can see
it collapsing before our very eyes.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/end-of-capitalism-is-nigh
Electromagnetic
Fields and Wireless Technology: Potential Impact and Risks: WHO and
international standard-setting bodies are not protecting public health.
International exposure guidelines for electromagnetic fields must be fortified.
https://www.laprogressive.com/techie-tips/electromagnetic-fields-and-wireless-technology
What Can Be Done
About The Federal Debt Trap? If the
sacrosanct military budget cannot be trimmed, what about that other massive
budget item, interest on the federal debt?
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/what-can-be-done-about-the-federal-debt-trap
UPS Teamsters
Exploited for Millions in Executive Profits i.e. Unpaid Wages: We are
generating historic, multibillion-dollar profits for UPS. Those record profits
are unpaid wages. UPS Teamsters are done with the company's disrespect.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/ups-teamsters-exploited
How Urban Alchemy
Turns Homelessness Into Gold: Cities are pouring money into the nonprofit to
manage encampments and patrol the streets where unhoused residents congregate.
Not everyone is happy about it.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/homelessness-urban-alchemy/
17 Days After
Mastectomy & Axillary Dissection of Lymph Nodes: A Love Poem
College
Admissions: Foul & Fair. My
experience after years of teaching has left me with very little faith in
standardized test scores or paper qualifications for college admission.
https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/college-admissions
Poverty, By
America: From the point of view of the poor, poverty is just a never-ending
chain of problems and crises that you hope to survive, but none of which will
get you out of poverty.
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/poverty-here-in-america
Wesleyan
University: Top US college says it will end 'legacy' admissions
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66249601
Cultivating
America's Next Crop of Farmers: America’s farmers are aging. To avoid a crisis,
we need to lower the economic barriers of entry for young farmers.
https://www.laprogressive.com/food-policy/american-farmers
What the
Hollywood Strike Really Means: The struggle of capital and labor in the 21st
century
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/the-media/hollywood-strike?
Is Capitalism
Leaving the U.S. in Search of Profit?
Already rich corporate shareholders promoted claims that capitalism’s
abandonment of the U.S. was actually a great gain for U.S. society.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/capitalism-leaving-the-u-s
What China’s
Faltering Economy Means: Some China watchers think Beijing’s economic woes are
behind the renewed interest in dialogue with the US.
https://www.laprogressive.com/asia/chinas-faltering-economy
Antitrust
Guidelines and Overthrowing a Corrupt Priesthood: A year ago, the antitrust
agencies got thousands of comments from us. And now they are telling us how
they are acting. This is the nerdy stuff that matters, and you can participate.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/antitrust-guidelines-and-overthrowing
Progressives
Unveil OLIGARCH Act to Combat 'Existential Threat' of Extreme Wealth Inequality
"American
oligarchs have used their wealth to accumulate an unprecedented level of
political power, which they've used to amass even greater wealth. We must stop
this cycle."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/progressives-oligarch-act
IRS says it
collected $38 million from more than 175 high-income tax delinquents
https://apnews.com/article/irs-tax-treasury-yellen-0b3240e16760753f1ed6479a060a1b2b
Medicare and the
Incidence of Household Financial Distress
https://www.nber.org/digest/20237/medicare-and-incidence-household-financial-distress
How UPS and the
Teamsters Staved Off a Strike—for Now.
With work stoppages under way or looming in a variety of industries, is
the U.S. in the midst of a “hot labor summer”?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/how-ups-and-the-teamsters-staved-off-a-strike-for-now
Why Did Economic
Forecasters Get Their Recession Call Wrong?
Not only has the economy outperformed predictions but it’s growing at a
faster rate than experts think is sustainable in the long run.
SAG-AFTRA
president Fran Drescher is leading the charge: The actress and writer has made
it clear that she is more than 'The Nanny'
https://theweek.com/profile/1025268/sag-aftra-president-fran-drescher-is-leading-the-charge
Biden’s New
Mental Health Rule Proposes Equal Insurance Coverage
Full Spectrum
Overdose Prevention: A game-changing program to mitigate the fentanyl crisis.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/harm-reduction-overdose-prevention-fentanyl-drug-testing
Succession Series
Finale: Here Be No Monsters. On
Succession and the mobility of capitalism.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/succession-series-finale-season-4-episode-10-hbo
The Guerrilla
Gardeners Seedbombing the Suburbs: How guerrilla gardeners supply healthy food,
beautify their community and support the local ecosystem.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/guerrilla-gardening-local-food-ecology-seedbombs
Think Globally,
Build Like Hell Locally: How can we decarbonize the economy when we can’t even
build housing?
Howard Schultz
Came Out of Retirement to Destroy Starbucks’ Union—and His Legacy. He sold himself as a benevolent, modern boss.
Then his employees organized.
“Closed by Order
of the Governor”: Teachers in the Crossfire of Florida’s War on Public
Education
The many
casualties in Ron DeSantis’ crusade against “woke indoctrination.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/03/ron-desantis-florida-teachers/
Capitalism Is
Ruining Video Games: I used to love playing them. Now they play me.
Should Insurers
Cover Kids’ Obesity Drugs? Experts Say It’s Long Overdue. Treatments are largely out of reach for
communities that need them most.
Blood, Soil, and
Grass-Fed Beef: The left once led discussions on global capitalism’s harm to
the world and your gut. Not anymore.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/04/raw-egg-nationalist-wef-great-reset-meat-eggs/
Work Won’t Love
You Back: We Were Warned: The East Palestine disaster is a reminder that rail
workers’ fight for safety is also a form of bargaining for the common good.
https://progressive.org/magazine/work-wont-love-you-back-we-were-warned-jaffe/
Lifting Workers
Out of Poverty: Ten years in, the movement to raise the minimum wage is gaining
momentum across the country.
https://progressive.org/magazine/lifting-workers-out-of-poverty-johnson/
A trucking giant
that's been on America's roads for almost a century is on the brink of collapse
with 30,000 jobs at risk, report says
https://www.businessinsider.com/yellow-corp-shutdown-would-lay-off-30-000-teamsters-2023-7
S&P 500,
Nasdaq notch modest gains Monday, rise for the fifth straight month: Live
updates
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/30/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
The world’s most
powerful countries have benefited from large work forces for decades. But as people
retire, a shift in the distribution of working-age and older populations is
about to change everything.
Let's Bring Back
the Child Tax Credit Expansion: Although it ended prematurely, the expanded
credit was effective because it came out of a lineage connected to poor and
dispossessed people, organizing for our right to fare well.
https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/child-tax-credit-expansion
How Striking
Hollywood Creators and Hotel Housekeepers Face the Same Obstacles
With
consolidation and industry diversification, corporate studio and hotel owners
have more money to wait out strikes.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/how-striking-hollywood-creators
Nasdaq drops more
than 2% in worst day since February as Fitch downgrade ignites selloff: Live
updates
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/01/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
Russia strikes
Ukraine's Danube port, driving up global grain prices
DeJoy Won’t Go
Electric Despite Calls for ‘Dramatic Change’: Louis DeJoy is focused on
short-term cost-cutting rather than long-term smart solutions for USPS’s
future. His approach, to dig his heels in, is dangerous.
https://www.laprogressive.com/political-issues/dejoy-wont-go-electric
Gary Maring’s
"Seeking the Common Good".
Maring thinks that the common good is achieved where “everyone has
access to the basic necessities of life.”
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/seeking-the-common-good
Health Insurance
Top-Down Monopoly on Health Care: Running a company that sells health insurance
is a great gig. Even better when that company becomes involved in almost every
facet of the health care industry.
https://www.laprogressive.com/healthcare-issues/health-insurance-top-down-monopoly
Bangladesh
grapples with record deadly outbreak of dengue fever
Don’t Expect
Biden to Get Credit for the Economy Anytime Soon: Ask Clinton or Obama.
Americans need to see their economic fortunes rise over a long period before
they start thanking the president.
My Ten-Point Plan
for Taylor Swift: Local 11 hopes that persuading Swift to respect workers’
picket lines will pressure the hotels to settle their dispute.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/my-10-point-plan-for-taylor-swift
American Working
People Undervalued - Working People Fighting Back: The initiative,
perseverance, courage lie with the workers seeking a better life for themselves
and their families. From them comes a more equitable society.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/american-working-people-undervalued
Unions Make the
Personal, Political: Taking the Fight to Public Opinion. Recognizing their deep pockets, the thinking
goes that if the unions can’t financially outlast the studios, they might be
able to shame them into a better deal.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/unions-make-personal-political
Tenant Harassment
by Landlords: New Amendment May Provide Real Protection, Faces Opposition
Tenant lawyers in
Los Angeles say that they will not take on tenant harassment cases — because
even when they win, there is no guarantee that they will be paid.
https://www.laprogressive.com/homelessness/tenant-harassment
5th Circuit
blocks new rules aiming to expand student debt relief for defrauded borrowers
Gay, bisexual men
can now donate blood under Red Cross new inclusive screening process
Make College
Affordable Again
https://www.populist.com/29.13.Editorial.html
Grassroots Action
Is Shoving States Into Action on Child Care
Political
Perverts: Pro-Lifers Who’re Anti-Child Care
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/political-perverts-pro-lifers-whore#details
Support Your
Local Dairies
https://www.populist.com/29.13.McMillen.html
Dispatches: BIDEN
ACTS TO LIMIT UNEXPECTED HEALTH COSTS; A GREAT JOBS REPORT AND VINDICATION OF
BIDENOMICS; INFLATION REDUCTION ACT IS TURNING U.S. INTO RENEWABLE ENERGY
SUPERPOWER; BIDEN’S LEGISLATIVE WINS A BOON FOR BATTLEGROUND DEMS; CORPORATE
PROFITS SURGED TO $1 TRILLION A YEAR AS WORKING PEOPLE SUFFER; TRUMP JUST MADE
THE CASE FOR EXPANDING THE SUPREME COURT; FLORIDA LAW HAS SCHOOLS SCARED TO
TEACH SHAKESPEARE; and ABOUT THOSE ‘MIRACLE’ READING SCORES IN MISSISSIPPI.
https://www.populist.com/29.13.Dispatches.html
Froma Harrop:
Biden's economy is boffo
Wounding Mission
Accomplished
https://www.populist.com/29.13.GNichol.html
American Workers
Demand Julie Su’s Confirmation
https://www.populist.com/29.13.Conway.html
Want to Reclaim
the Spirit of 1776? Reduce Inequality.
In both 1776 and the mid-20th century, our most financially fortunate
found themselves in relatively equal societies, and shared a sense of
responsibility to the greater good.
https://www.populist.com/29.13.Pizzigati.html
Will Katherine
Tai Prevail Over the Corporate Undertow?
The U.S. trade representative is one of Biden’s most inspired appointees.
She faces fierce resistance as she tries to carry out her president’s trade
agenda.
https://prospect.org/economy/2023-06-27-katherine-tai-trade-corporate-undertow/
The Titan and the
Titanic: Two tales of Capitalist hubris
https://www.alternet.org/the-titan-and-the-titanic/
Big Pharma’s
Money Talks
https://www.populist.com/29.13.Uretsky.html
Bad Term at
BlackRock
https://www.populist.com/29.13.Anderson.html
Class, Capitalism
and Democrats
https://www.populist.com/29.13.OLeary.html
Poverty is a
Choice America Makes
https://www.populist.com/29.13.Winkes.html
The Paris
Olympics Are Developing a Familiar Stench: A recent raid shows that the Olympic
corruption follies aren’t going anywhere.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/paris-olympics-corruption/
Study Shows
Marijuana Is ‘Significantly Associated’ With Reduced Use Of Unregulated Opioids
Efrat Dotan, MD,
Chief, Division of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology
https://www.foxchase.org/efrat-dotan
Sanjay S. Reddy,
MD, FACS, Department of Surgical Oncology
https://www.foxchase.org/sanjay-reddy
Amazon Workers
Want UPS Gains: Wage gains at UPS after recent collective bargaining talks have
Amazon workers demanding more
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/amazon-workers-want-ups-gains
‘More work for
less money’: Protests at LAX, City Hall as thousands walk off the job
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-08/los-angeles-city-workers-strike-scene-lax
Federal Worker
Safety Official Says Marijuana Prohibition Makes His Agency’s Job ‘Complicated’
Top Federal Health Agency Says Marijuana Should Be Moved
To Schedule III In Historic Recommendation To DEA
Top Federal
Health Official Confirms At Exactly 4:20 That His Department Is Recommending
Marijuana Rescheduling
Stay Hydrated,
They Say -- Unless You're a Construction Worker
Blood Batteries
Power Our Phones
https://www.populist.com/29.14.Lingo.html
Froma Harrop: Is
Elon Musk's problem simply loneliness?
What Decades of
Social Work Taught Me About Poverty: Not one person I’ve ever met wants to be
poor, sick, disabled, struggling, or on the receiving end of public assistance
programs.
https://www.populist.com/29.14.Sitarsky.html
Young People
Can’t Sit on the Sidelines on Social Security: Young workers struggling to save
amid high rents and student debt will pay the biggest price for cuts. Here’s
how to prevent them.
https://www.populist.com/29.14.Devaan.html
Cultivating the
Next Crop of America’s Farmers: America’s farmers are aging. To avoid a crisis,
we need to lower the economic barriers of entry for young farmers.
https://www.populist.com/29.14.Browne.html
Cooling core
inflation eases pressure for Fed rate hikes
It’s Not That
Hard to Solve Homelessness
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/07/11/its-not-that-hard-to-solve-homelessness/
The Private
Equity Takeover of Hospice Care: Half of all Americans now die in hospice care.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/healthcare-medicare-illness-privatization/
Are GOP Governors
Killing Their Citizens to Protect Billionaires?
Rightwing billionaires (who pay an average income tax of 3.4 percent)
think the world is made up of “makers” and “takers." So what if 45,000 Americans
die every year because of this callous attitude?
https://hartmannreport.com/p/are-gop-governors-killing-their-citizens-6c2
JESSE JACKSON:
It’s Time to Act
https://www.washingtoninformer.com/jesse-jackson-its-time-to-act/
Cal State
University Employees Rally for Better Pay and Benefits
https://www.populist.com/29.14.Sandronsky.html
A New
Colonialism, A New Raw Material: Nurses
https://www.populist.com/29.14.Retsinas.html
AI Can Help Make
Drugs Better
https://www.populist.com/29.14.Uretsky.html
Stealth
Revolution in Health Care
https://www.populist.com/29.14.OLeary.html
Heaven and Earth:
One Hot Strike Summer
https://www.creators.com/read/jamie-stiehm/07/23/heaven-and-earth-one-hot-strike-summer
Take a Minute to
Remember How Far You've Come
US Scientists
Develop New ‘Cancer-Stopping Pill’ That Can ‘Annihilate’ Tumors but Leave
Healthy Cells Unharmed
Smart Ass
Cripple: Playing God. Disabled people are often denied essential medical care
because of assumptions made about our quality of life.
https://progressive.org/magazine/smart-ass-cripple-playing-god-ervin/
Work Won’t Love
You Back: Every Drag Performer Is an Organizer.
Attempts to ban drag are unique in that proponents are not only
attacking a form of expression—drag is also a job.
https://progressive.org/magazine/work-wont-love-you-back-every-drag-performer-organizer-jaffe/
Donald Trump and
Ayn Rand: Chapter 2 of The Common Good
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-common-good-chapter-2-what-good
Labor Report from
PA State Senator Christine M. Tartaglione
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100167281.890.450&gen=1
How Labor
Exploitation and Climate Change Intersect: Neither the corporate media nor our
politicians who are beholden to corporate lobbyists honestly address the common
root causes.
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/labor-exploitation-and-climate-change
Bossless
Companies Democratizing Workplaces: Do corporate CEOs deserve all those
millions? Do we need corporate bosses
pocketing 400% more than the workers?
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/bossless-companies-democratizing-workplaces
SAG-AFTRA Can
Agree on One Thing: It’s Time to Crush the Big Studios. How do you bring a
woefully divided union together? You go on strike.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/sag-aftra-strike-los-angeles/
The Case for More
Strikes: Unions nationwide must take advantage of their leverage and use the
strike weapon more often.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/labor-practice-pickets-strike/
Letters From the
August 21/28, 2023, Issue: Suburban blight… Predatory financing… Dancing to
AIPAC’s tune (web only)… A commitment to liberation (web only)…
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/letters-from-the-august-21-28-2023-issue/
President Biden
Delivers Remarks on the Anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act – August 16,
2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JJPX7fLp6U
Seattle
Public-Facing Workers Need Support: A city can’t function without
infrastructure and the workers who maintain it.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/public-facing-workers
Shoppers Boost
Retail Sales for Fourth Straight Month: Consumers spent more in July on food,
clothing and online
We Have a Health
Care Crisis: Congress Must Address It – August 16, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj4_AzsGYBc
Here's why
Americans can't stop living paycheck to paycheck: Almost three-quarters of
Americans say they aren't financially secure given their current standing
Why Capitalism Is
Leaving the US in Search of More Profit: Capitalists are constantly searching
for lower-wage workers to exploit and since the 1970s, capitalists have had to
leave the US or risk losing their competitive edge over those capitalists who had
left earlier for China and other Asian, South American, and African countries.
https://www.populist.com/29.15.Wolff.html
When You Have No
Boots to Strap
https://www.populist.com/29.15.Rollins.html
Medical Marijuana
Use Linked To Improved Quality Of Life And Better Job Performance For People
With Neurological Disorders, New Study Finds
People Who Use
Marijuana Are Half As Likely To Develop Type 2 Diabetes, New Meta-Analysis
Finds
Rich Men North of
Richmond: Republicans court cultural populism, while Democrats eschew economic
populism. But economic populism is the key.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/rich-men-north-of-richmond?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Economic Hitmen
Cartoon [HD] - 5 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONVcAY2UrQ0&t=110s
Oliver Anthony - Rich Men North Of Richmond – August 9,
2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSA-SY5Hro
Break Down of Hit Song: "Rich Men North of
Richmond" – August 17, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqruGcWrtS4
BLACK LIBERAL REACTS TO Oliver Anthony - Rich Men North
Of Richmond & Virginia REACTION – August 18, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vFB9d4Npj8
BILLY BRAGG
REACTS TO OLIVER ANTHONY WITH AN ALTERNATIVE SONG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ5E1Q17lm0
Another Chance to
Reduce Child Poverty: My story is proof that public programs can help kids
escape poverty. Now lawmakers have a chance to help more kids get out.
https://www.populist.com/29.15.Jacobs.html
Better a Bad Dog
Than a Mad Dog
https://www.populist.com/29.15.Young.html
China’s Faltering
Economy and Its Implications
https://www.populist.com/29.15.Gurtov.html
Banks: The Weak
Spot in a Strong Recovery. The larger
problem is feeble and captured regulation, resulting in multiple
intra–executive branch fights.
https://www.populist.com/29.15.Kuttner.html
California
Academic Workers Are Rising Up
https://www.populist.com/29.15.Sandronsky.html
Five Critical
Lessons From UPS’s Union Workers: The UPS Teamsters’ negotiations with the
world’s largest delivery company offer the American labor movement lessons in
organizing. One in particular: Labor militancy works.
https://buckscountybeacon.com/2023/07/five-critical-lessons-from-upss-union-workers/
Fear of
Flying? The fight for airline passenger
rights—and holding the industry to account.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/fear-of-flying/
Why Bidenomics
will get Joe another term and… Trump
will help, but Bidenomics will be the key
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-remarkable-success-of-bidenomics/comments
Junk Insurance:
One More Legacy from President Trump
https://www.populist.com/29.15.Retsinas.html
Big Conclusions
Drawn from Small Study
https://www.populist.com/29.15.Uretsky.html
USW@Work: Volume
18, Issue 3. FEATURES: Health Care
Workers Build Power; UNION YES AT BLUE BIRD: Workers at
Georgia Bus Maker Achieve Major Victory; and The Power of Our Union:
Rapid Response Activists Flex Their Muscle on Capitol Hill
https://m.usw.org/news/publications/usw-at-work/uswwork-volume-18-issue-3
Senator Christine
M. Tartaglione Labor Report: August 25, 2023
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100167315.546.33&gen=1
Mackenzie Scott,
one of the world’s richest women, has given away $14 billion, nearly half her
fortune, in just 3 years
The Life of a
Second Generation Hourly Worker: Family needs and the lack of a safety net add
to a college graduate’s struggle to rise from California’s low-wage economy.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/second-generation-hourly-worker
Rich Men Have
Always Exploited Laborers: The working class has always been exploited. This
viral video about Rich Men is an expression of working-class woe.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/rich-men-exploit-the-working-class
Filipino Unionist
Speaks in LA, Long Beach; Appeals for Labor Solidarity. Under the Philippine Labor Code, it is
illegal to join a union and wages are even lower in the regions outside of
Manila.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/filipino-unionist
The Problem That
Just Won’t Go Away
https://www.populist.com/29.15.Trimble.html
Carli Lloyd’s
attacks on the USWNT are personal — and political
Why These
Leftists Oppose Free Money: A conversation with Daniel Zamora Vargas and Anton
Jäger about why a “basic income” isn’t such a progressive welfare idea.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/global-history-basic-income-jager-vargas/
Jewish Women Have
a Long History of Organizing for Labor Rights: Fran Drescher is just the latest
example of the pivotal role Jewish women have played in the union struggle.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/fran-drescher-labor-rights/
Is Bidenomics
Ready for the Campaign Trail? The
president is touting the strength of the economy in his reelection campaign.
But there’s no guarantee voters will bite.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/bidenomics-101/
An American
Crisis: The ongoing housing crisis in Portland, Ore., has desensitized us to
the real people who have been affected.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/photos-portland-homelessness/
Letters From the
September 4/11, 2023, Issue: The right to be heard… It’s going to get hotter…
Don’t cross the picket line (web only)…
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/letters-from-the-september-4-11-2023-issue/
Tens of Millions:
The persistence of American poverty.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/poverty-by-america-matthew-desmond/
HHS sends
recommendation to DEA on rescheduling marijuana
Senator Christine
M. Tartaglione Labor Report: September 1, 2023
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100167331.706.58&gen=1
7 Days Paid Sick
Leave Essential for Workers, Public Health, Employers: To protect essential
workers, improve public health, and address the COVID threat and future
pandemics, seven days of paid sick leave is an indispensable tool.
https://www.laprogressive.com/pandemic/7-days-paid-sick-leave
US labor movement
celebrates new regulation to counter union-busting: NLRB framework means
companies committing illegal acts during unionization efforts will be forced to
bargain immediately
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/02/union-nlrb-decision-delays-busting
Trump’s Final
Numbers: Statistical indicators of President Trump's four years in office.
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/
Rural Tennessee
County Uses Opioid Settlement Funds to Collect Highway Litter
https://barnraisingmedia.com/rural-county-does-not-use-opioid-settlement-funds-for-treatment/
Doing the Work:
Unions, wealth inequality, and leveling the playing field
https://marytrump.substack.com/p/doing-the-work?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Starbucks Stalls
Union Negotiations Because It Can: Weak labor laws allow the coffee giant to
avoid contract talks.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/starbucks-stalls-union-negotiations
North Dakota's Local Banks Flourish with State-Owned
Bank: North Dakota’s local banks are very safe. The state- owned Bank of North
Dakota acts as a “mini-Fed”, helping with liquidity, capitalization, and
regulation.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/north-dakotas-local-banks-flourish
Why Aren't Voters
Buying Bidenomics? It’s hard to see what
Biden or the Fed or anyone else can do in order to promote a sunnier view of
the economy.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/voters-buying-bidenomics
From Scarcity to
Abundance in Narrative: Toward a Better Understanding
Summer of Labor
Solidarity: Call For Boycott. In a
summer of labor solidarity, the hotel workers’ calls for boycott may get a
favorable reception. Ultimately, It’s about who is getting called out — and
why.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/summer-of-labor-solidarity
A Reality Check:
Economic Growth in G7 Versus BRICS: We are confronted with a combination of
denials and pretenses that are caused by the conjoined decline of U.S.
capitalism and its global empire.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/g7-versus-brics
Social isolation
contributes to brain atrophy and cognitive decline in older adults, study
suggests
Northern
Virginia’s Data Center Industry Is Booming. But Is It Sustainble?
https://dcist.com/story/23/09/01/northern-virginia-data-center-report/
The True Cost of
the “Free” Market
https://time.com/6258540/true-cost-of-the-free-market/
Potential Auto
Strike Key for Establishing a People’s Economy: Meeting UAW’s demands would be
a win-win for the climate and for workers’ rights. So, what’s stopping the Big
Three from acquiescing?
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/potential-auto-strike
Higher
Education’s "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and Why a Children’s
Book Is Important
Once a social
institution held in high esteem, higher education today is a non-profit
corporation engaged in a hyper-propelled money chase.
https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers
Marijuana:
Deschedule Not Reschedule: Reclassifying cannabis from Schedule I to a lower
classification won’t bridge widening gap between state and federal marijuana
laws.
https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-the-justice-system/marijuana-deschedule-not-reschedule
How the War on
Poverty Stalled: The study of poverty has flourished in recent decades. Why
haven’t the lives of the poor improved?
https://newrepublic.com/article/174677/war-poverty-stalled
Health Care
Companies Are Using Debt to Trap Nurses on the Job: Many caregivers are paying
a high price for fleeing jobs they thought were unsafe or intolerable.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/nurse-debt-trap-training-repayment-agreement/
Nationalization
Is a Great American Tradition: The U.S. government has at various times taken
control of radio, railroads, coal mines and banks. Today there are movements
afoot to nationalize Amazon, SpaceX, transit and more.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/big-idea-nationalization-public-good-twitter-amazon-spacex-tyson
How Goldilocks
Came to the U.S. Economy
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/opinion/inflation-unemployment-phillips-recession.html
Socialism
Fear-mongering is Bananas | Robert Reich – September 12, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq02yuY4wDQ
Economic Update:
Profit & Inequality: Two Driving Forces of Capitalism – September 12, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJOmKAa2Aks
Global
Capitalism: A Resurging US Labor Movement – September 13, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg4B2sFl2q0
LIVE: Addressing
the Child Care Crisis – September 13, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgGLAxLFWGA
NIH awards $50.3
million for “multi-omics” research on human health and disease: New research
consortium will develop innovative strategies for clinical studies involving
ancestrally diverse populations.
New behavioral
system mapping shows key consumer behaviors needed to achieve a circular
economy
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-behavioral-key-consumer-behaviors-circular.html
Intellectual
Property: Private Appropriation of Knowledge by Capitalism. The private appropriation of knowledge as
intellectual property under capitalism chains the power of the collective to
create new knowledge and benefit people.
How Inequality
Was Redefined as “Poverty”—Letting Capitalism Off the Hook. In the 1960s, policy shifted from calling for
the redistribution of wealth to enforcing an ideology of personal
responsibility.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/inequality-poverty-unemployment-johnson/
The Women of
America’s Heartland: Monica Potts’s book The Forgotten Girls is a document of
the effects of poverty, sexism, and, of course, the rapacious capitalism that
has abandoned communities across America.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/rural-decline-women-monica-potts/
On
Gentrification, We Don’t Know What We’re Talking About: Rather than understand
gentrification as a systemic issue, the term has simply become an insult people
throw around.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gentrification-rhetorical-weapon-systemic-issue/
We Have the
Solution to Child Poverty. Republicans Are Blocking It. The expansion of the child tax credits under
the American Rescue Plan halved child poverty. When the policy ended, child
poverty shot back up.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/child-tax-credit-poverty/
Confessions of a
McKinsey Whistleblower: Inside the soul-crushing, morally bankrupt, top-secret
world of our most powerful consulting firm.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mckinsey-whistleblower-confessions/
Can You Keep
Breastfeeding When You Work 30,000 Feet in the Air? Flight attendants desperately need legal
protection to ensure their right to pump on the job—but airline industry
lobbying cut them out of a law that will provide just that for millions of
workers.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/breastfeeding-pump-act-flight-attendants/
Xenotransplantation
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/xenotransplantation/
UAW workers
launch unprecedented strike against all Big Three automakers
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/15/business/auto-workers-strike/index.html
The American
people are sick and tired of corporate greed. – September 19, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLcB7i3GGIU
Can We Stop the
GOP’s Big Pharma Rip-Off? For today’s
bought-off GOP (and a handful of bought-off “problem solver” Democrats), as
long as Republicans on the Supreme Court keep the corrupt payola machine
running, there simply is no bottom…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/can-we-stop-the-gops-big-pharma-rip-d14
No American Dream
Without Paid Sick Leave and Low-Cost Child Care: America gives a lot of lip
service to the American Dream, but we haven’t led the world in meeting human
needs since the Reagan Revolution.
https://www.laprogressive.com/healthcare-issues/no-american-dream
‘Disgusting’:
Bernie Sanders reacts to comments from millionaire CEO, applauds unions –
September 20, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VVqi8vzmr4
Autoworkers
Staged Their First Big Strike in the 1930s. Here’s How They Won.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/uaw-autoworkers-strike-1930s-great-depression/
"Cha-Ching!"
Lina Khan Attacks Private Equity in Health Care. FTC Chair Lina Khan is getting more
aggressive, targeting individual Amazon executives, and seeking to stop a
brazen scheme to monopolize health care in Texas. Private equity is big mad.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cha-ching-lina-khan-attacks-private
Navy veteran in
Maryland is second patient to undergo pig heart transplant. Lawrence Faucette, ineligible for traditional
heart transplant, faced near-certain death from heart failure
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/pig-heart-transplant-lawrence-faucette-maryland/45268548#
Marjorie Kelly on
Wealth Supremacy. Wealth Supremacy like
white supremacy is pervasive in the United States but most of us haven't
awakened to the toll it takes
https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues-videos/marjorie-kelly-on-wealth-supremacy
Give Way to Union
Demands, the Company Reaps the Profits.
With corporations squeezing profits, merely pointing out the mutually
beneficial rewards of meeting union demands isn’t enough to sway shareholders
and allies.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/give-way-to-union-demands
Trump's Outreach
to Labor a Ploy to Get Votes. Trump’s
outreach to labor likely will prove to be nothing more than an empty gesture
designed to extract votes ahead of an election, no follow up forthcoming.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/trumps-outreach-to-labor
Why Are Your
Medical Bills So High? Look At Your
Latest Hospital Merger. Hospital mergers
and creeping consolidation have proven traumatic and costly for countless
Americans, and they are hard to curtail
https://populist.com/29.17.Rosenthal.html
Give Bidenomics
Credit
https://populist.com/29.17.Editorial.html
Yes, We Can Stop
Drug Price Gouging! Here’s How!
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/yes-we-can-stop-drug-price-gouging#details
Consumer Alert:
Your Phone Company Wants Into Your Bank Account!
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/consumer-alert-your-phone-company#details
Jesse James Now
Wears Guccis
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/jesse-james-now-wears-guccis#details
Truth: Mexicans
Don’t Set Your Pay. They Scoop Corn.
https://populist.com/29.17.ArtCullen.html
New, long overdue
efforts to reform federal commodity checkoffs
Funyuns and Flu
Shots? Gas Station Company Ventures Into Urgent Care. Private equity firms have been investing in
urgent care’s consumer-friendly niche for over a decade. Now QuikTrip, a
convenience store chain in the Midwest, South and West, is getting into the
walk-in health trade.
https://populist.com/29.17.Sable-Smith.html
The Power of a
First Contract
https://populist.com/29.17.Conway.html
The Economy:
Steady as She Goes. The Fed needs to
understand that this economy defies its models. It should begin to cut rates,
and get ready for a whole other kind of inflation driven by climate change.
https://populist.com/29.17.Kuttner.html
Don’t Blame
Workers for Poor Service — Blame Our CEOs.
New data shows big retailers have the cash to hire more workers and pay
them well. They just spend it on stocks and CEOs instead.
https://populist.com/29.17.Allen.html
Housing: How Do
We Protect One of the Primary Essentials of Life? Nobody in America should be without a home,
and for society to work, housing costs must track incomes in a way that makes
housing both available and affordable…
https://populist.com/29.17.Hartmann.html
Where Did Our
Public Toilets Go? Why the state of a
country’s civilization can be judged by its public facilities.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/urban-planning-public-services-socialism/
JESSE JACKSON: A
Job for All
https://www.washingtoninformer.com/jesse-jackson-a-job-for-all/
In California,
Corporate Interests Fight Housing Solutions
https://populist.com/29.17.Sandronsky.html
States as
Countinghouses
https://populist.com/29.17.Retsinas.html
Fixing the
Economy
https://populist.com/29.17.Anderson.html
Greedonomics at
the Supermarket
https://populist.com/29.17.OLeary.html
The Lost Art (and
Joy) of Taxing the Rich: By ending the practice of taxing the those with the
most, we have witnessed an incredibly intense concentration of wealth that has
recreated the same sort of top-heavy economic imbalances that ushered in the
Great Depression almost a century ago.
https://populist.com/29.17.Pizzigati.html
The Daunting
Physics of Bidenomics
https://rall.com/2023/09/05/the-daunting-physics-of-bidenomics
Today, for the
first time in American history, a President stood on a picket line defending
workers. – September 26, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnyQQDxFNYI
Economic Update:
Private Profits vs Public Treasure with Eleanor Goldfield – September 26, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzysFEBjJnE
The Risks of AI
and What We Can Do - Public Citizen
https://www.citizen.org/news/the-risks-of-ai-and-what-we-can-do/
New Public
Citizen Analysis Finds Continued Major Differences Among States in Rates of
Serious Physician Disciplinary Actions - Public Citizen
Civics for
Democracy | Learning for Justice
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/fall-2023/civics-for-democracy
The Kids Are All
Right | Learning for Justice
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/fall-2023/the-kids-are-all-right
Fighting for
Inclusive Schools | Learning for Justice
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/fall-2023/fighting-for-inclusive-schools
Building
Resilience Against Manipulative Disinformation | Learning for Justice
A Time of
Transformation and Possibility | Learning for Justice
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/fall-2023/a-time-of-transformation-and-possibility
Paving the Way to
a Vibrant Multiracial Democracy | Learning for Justice
A Call for
Anti-Bias Education | Learning for Justice
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/fall-2023/a-call-for-anti-bias-education
Exclusion Is
Unconstitutional | Learning for Justice
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/fall-2023/exclusion-is-unconstitutional
Parents and
Caregivers for Inclusive Education | Learning for Justice
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/fall-2023/parents-and-caregivers-for-inclusive-education
Educating for
Democracy | Learning for Justice
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/fall-2023/educating-for-democracy
The Promise of
Inclusive Education | Learning for Justice
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/fall-2023/the-promise-of-inclusive-education
Why Civics Needs
Social Justice Education | Learning for Justice
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/fall-2023/why-civics-needs-social-justice-education
What Is Our
Collective Responsibility When We Uncover Honest History? | Learning for
Justice
When Milton
Friedman Met Pinochet: Chicago economists had free rein in Chile. The country
is still recovering.
https://newrepublic.com/article/172441/milton-friedman-met-pinochet
Welcome to
College—and a Lifetime of Debt: College is unaffordable for millions. It’s time
to rethink higher education.
https://newrepublic.com/article/175277/college-debt-biden-rethink-higher-education
How Big Tech Is
Ruining the Dream of AI: Artificial intelligence once promised to make us
healthier and wealthier. Now, we’re faced with either gimmicky chatbots or
total annihilation.
https://newrepublic.com/article/175357/big-tech-ruining-dream-ai
Ketchup With
Those Fries? Sure—as Long as It’s Anti-Woke: Those Bud Light protests just
scratched the surface. The right wing is constructing an entire parallel
economy, from its own coffee to its own banks.
https://newrepublic.com/article/175370/anti-woke-bud-light-right-wing-culture-wars
The Ludicrous,
Depressing Appeal of the Crypto Guy: How Sam Bankman-Fried and other
unscrupulous CEOs managed to swindle so many people
https://newrepublic.com/article/175335/crypto-ceo-appeal-sam-bankman-fried
The Conservative
Who Turned Against Corporate America: Sohrab Ahmari makes the case against big
business. But how convincing is his commitment to help workers?
https://newrepublic.com/article/175354/sohrab-ahmari-conservative-against-corporate-america
Autoworkers—And
All of Us—Deserve a Much Shorter Workweek: A 20-hour workweek is ours for the
taking.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/20-hour-workweek-alex-han-united-auto-workers-uaw
Walgreens
walkout: Your pharmacy might be closed next week
Walgreens pharmacists stage walkout just weeks after
similar action by CVS staffers
Candy factory
didn’t evacuate concerned workers before Pennsylvania explosion that killed 7,
OSHA finds
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/06/us/pennsylvania-candy-factory-explosion-osha/index.html
Economic Update:
Corporate Greed VS Labor: The Struggle Intensifies – October 9, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTgaFwhuq0Q
Workers at Mack
Trucks reject contract and join the thousands of UAW picketers already on
strike
Claudia Dale
Goldin (born May 14, 1946) is an American economic historian and labor
economist who is currently the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard
University. In October 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in
Economic Sciences "for having advanced our understanding of women's labour
market outcomes".[2] She is the first woman to win the award solo.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Goldin
I Found a Vape
Pen at My Son’s School. Finding Out What Was Inside Was a Lot Harder.
Come along on my
confounding ride into the wild west of unregulated pot.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/vape-pen-thc-synthetics-china/
They were 10 and
14 when Alaska sent them out of state for psychiatric treatment. Now they’re
telling their stories.
Over-the-Counter
Mucus Secretion Drugs: Do They Really Work?
https://copd.net/clinical/mucus-secretion-drugs
Reports of
antisemitic incidents in U.S. spike after attack on Israel, Anti-Defamation
League says
Economic Update:
Today's Agents of Change: Strikes, Unionization & Labor Militancy – October
16, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyTIWUTL2G4
What Does
"Wealth" Mean to You? | Aisha Nyandoro | TED – October 17, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPlQGy-9hSI
Biden's Key to
Winning in 2024? Go After The Forces That Rigged Our Economy | Robert Reich –
October 17, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIUE6Y4pMpA
Analgesic use
after COVID-19 vaccination does not negatively affect antibody responses
Common flu
vaccine myths debunked: What you need to know this flu season
Fox Chase Cancer
Center invested in a startup that is developing drugs that use radioactive
molecules to diagnose and treat cancer.
The company, founded by the Mayo Clinic, develops radiopharmaceuticals
to treat tumors with more precision.
Ask Prof Wolff
Live - Oct 18, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ0ZQj41ZCw
Too much red meat
is linked to a 50% increase in Type 2 diabetes risk
Fed Chair Powell:
Slower economic growth may be needed to conquer stubbornly high inflation
It's a Poverty
Emergency and We Must Act: Lives cut short from poverty and low-wealth is a
moral indictment of a society that is abandoning millions amid abundance.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/moral-march-against-poverty
Everything to
know about Columbus' agreement to wipe out $335 million in medical debt. City Council reached an agreement with four
area hospitals to wipe out medical debt for those who qualify.
Federal Reserve
Bank Says States With Legal Marijuana See 'Broadly Distributed' Economic Boost
But Also Bump In 'Social Costs' - Marijuana Moment
Economic Update:
American Families Today Are Crisis Ridden – October 23, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVQHLHCckEM
UAW union just
ordered 6,800 workers to strike a massive Ram truck facility
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/23/business/uaw-stellantis-strike/index.html
Chevron agrees to
buy Hess for $53 billion
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/23/investing/chevron-hess/index.html
Labor Shows Its
Grit
https://populist.com/29.18.Edit.html
How things work:
Big pharma price gouging
Labor Day is over
— but Labor's Day is just starting
https://www.alternet.org/labor-movement/
How the
Right-Wing is Trying to Turn Public Education Into Corporate Obedience Schools
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/how-the-right-wing-is-trying-to-turn#details
Storm Lake Gets
Sucked Dry So the World Gets Cheap Meat
https://populist.com/29.18.ArtCullen.html
Poverty Just
Jumped — And It Was No Accident. I’ve
lived and studied poverty most of my life. But you don’t have to be an expert
to see why it’s spiking after lawmakers let antipoverty programs expire.
https://populist.com/29.18.McVey.html
Another Big GOP
Lie: ‘Economy’s a Wreck’
https://populist.com/29.18.Young.html
Ask Prof Wolff
Live - October 25. 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__5-Ld4XDMY
Capitalism Hits
Home: U.S. Empire Falls. Families Fail. Why?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaD1VQhauXs
The Banality of
Price Fixing. Software-enabled price
fixing schemes are pervasive in the economy, and are likely driving high
prices. Why is it so hard to challenge these conspiracies under antitrust law?
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-banality-of-price-fixing
US economy grew
at blistering pace in 3rd quarter. U.S.
GDP grew at a 4.9% annualized rate over three months ending in September.
Overworked and
Undervalued: Nurses, Patients, and the Hospital Staffing Crisis – October 27,
2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P6yQqMjgoc
How Will Rural
Americans Fare During Medicaid Unwinding? Experts Fear They’re on Their Own
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/rural-americans-medicaid-unwinding-navigators-chip/
UAW Strike Gives
Us New Hope for the Working Class.
Unionized workers are showing the rest of us that the rich don’t always
have to get richer — at everyone else’s expense.
https://populist.com/29.18.Pizzigati.html
Empowering the
Caregivers
https://populist.com/29.18.Conway.html
Wall Street Bet
Big on Used-Car Loans for Years. Now a Crisis May Be Looming. The used-car market’s hot streak may be
ending as borrowers struggle to make payments and regulators say some auto
lenders are “setting up consumers to fail.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/wall-street-bet-big-on-used-car-loans-now-crisis-may-be-looming
Labor’s Militant
Creativity: The UAW builds on a tactic—selective strikes—pioneered 30 years ago
by the Flight Attendants.
https://populist.com/29.18.Kuttner.html
End Wealth
Supremacy. 15 years after the collapse
of Lehman Brothers, Wall Street is as predatory as ever. But a more democratic
economy could be rising all around us.
https://populist.com/29.18.Kelly.html
Will Billionaires
Build a New Utopian City—to Replace What They Ruined? Silicon Valley’s wealthy elites have been
secretly buying up land in one of California’s poorest counties to build a new
city from the ground up.
https://www.laprogressive.com/california-political-issues/new-utopian-city
UAW auto workers
will get a fair deal only If they fight for It
Surfing the
Strike Wave
https://populist.com/29.18.Kalet.html
Abortion and The
Myopia of States’ Rights’ Enthusiasts
https://populist.com/29.18.Retsinas.html
Houses for the
Homeless
https://populist.com/29.18.Uretsky.html
Bogus
‘Edutainment’ May Be Coming to a Classroom Near You. A far-right propaganda network is churning
out subpar, silly, and inaccurate school curricula. Here’s how to fight back
for our children’s future.
https://populist.com/29.18.Myrick.html
Economic Growth
in G7 Versus BRICS: A Reality Check
https://www.newsclick.in/economic-growth-g7-versus-brics-reality-check
Stiehm: Two
strikes and an out: A tale of three towns
It’s the Cream
Cheese, Stupid
https://populist.com/29.18.Friedman.html
Corporate
Criminal Behavior Almost Exposé Proof
https://nader.org/2023/09/15/corporate-criminal-behavior-almost-expose-proof/
Deep Fake A.I.
Ads Might Kill Us All
https://rall.com/2023/09/11/deep-fake-a-i-ads-might-kill-us-all
Why Parents Must
Help Kids Navigate The Online Gaming World
Federal Agencies
Fund New Marijuana Research Center To Overcome Study Barriers Imposed By
Prohibition
A Baby Boomer
Puts His Generation on Notice. It’s time
for us to stop obsessing about wealth, get back to our activist roots, and
redefine retirement.
https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a45249933/baby-boomers-activism-retirement/
5 things to know
about a stunning week for the economy
Smart Ass
Cripple: Don’t Sleep on the Fight to Protect Medicaid. Conservatives have been trying for years to
cut the guts out of Medicaid,
but
they know they have
to
be sneaky
about it.
Work Won't Love
You Back: Forget About the Fandom;
Focus
on the Movement. The summer of 2023 is
over, but it was a big one for organized labor. Social media users dubbed it another
“hot labor summer,” as picket lines sprang up across the country.
https://progressive.org/magazine/forget-about-the-fandom-jaffe-20230926/
Private Equity’s
Green Façade
Is Being Funded by Your
Pension. The growth potential of
decarbonization efforts is a double-edged sword for municipalities.
https://progressive.org/magazine/private-equitys-green-fa%C3%A7ade-baratta-bieber-20231016/
Edge of Sports:
Don’t Even Think About It. Like the
villain in a horror movie rising from the dead, the old name is resurfacing.
https://progressive.org/magazine/don%E2%80%99t-even-think-about-it-zirin-20231009/
The WGA Wins Its
Strike, but California Workers Face Uncertainty: The Hollywood writers’ union
scores an impressive win, while Governor Newsom sells out strikers on other
fronts.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/wga-wins-strike-but-california-workers-face-uncertainty/
In Defense of
Homeownership. It’s been blamed for
everything from NIMBYism to urban sprawl. So why do I still want in?
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/homeownership-renting-landlords-nimby/
Too Many
Economists Thought This Was Impossible.
The increase in the number of people working has helped tamp down
inflation and has shown the importance of aiming for full employment.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/labor-participation-inflation-unemployment/
Autoworkers—And
All of Us—Deserve a Much Shorter Workweek.
A 20-hour workweek is ours for the taking.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/20-hour-workweek-alex-han-united-auto-workers-uaw
What Mobile
Clinics in Dollar General Parking Lots Say About Health Care in Rural
America. A mobile medical services
company has partnered with Dollar General to bring medical care to rural
residents in Tennessee, where there is a shortage of local physicians.
https://populist.com/29.19.Tribble.html
Let’s Get Real:
Billionaires Are Nuts!
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/lets-get-real-billionaires-are-nuts#details
A Thundering Herd
of Bankers Robbing Oklahoma City Taxpayers
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/a-thundering-herd-of-bankers-robbing#details
In Defense of
Scrap Culture
https://populist.com/29.19.Rollins.html
Debt Before
Dishonor
https://populist.com/29.19.McMillen.html
Dispatches: UAW
WINS PROTECTION FOR GM BATTERY PLANT WORKERS iN MAJOR CONCESSION. MEMBERS
STRIKE AT MACK TRUCK FACILITIES AFTER REJECTING DEAL; MEDIA WORKS HARD ON
SPINNING GOOD JOBS NUMBERS INTO BAD ECONOMIC NEWS; TEXAS ATT’Y GENERAL FILES
CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS AGAINST IMPEACHMENT MANAGERS; TRUMP BOASTS OF SUPPORT FROM
HANNIBAL LECTER AT CAMPAIGN RALLY IN LATEST DISPLAY OF MENTAL SLIPPAGE; GUNS
ARE NOW THE LEADING CAUSE OF ACCIDENTAL DEATH AMONG AMERICAN KIDS; RFK JR.’S
SIBLINGS DENOUNCE INDEPENDENT RUN, CALL IT ‘PERILOUS FOR OUR COUNTRY.’: and LIZ
CHENEY OUTLINES JIM JORDAN’S ROLE IN JAN. 6 INSURRECTION.
https://populist.com/29.19.Dispatches.html
Froma Harrop:
Bring back locked mental facilities
Give Me a Home
Where the Buffalo Roam
https://populist.com/29.19.ArtCullen.html
Fake Meat is
Mostly a Fake-Out For Now
https://populist.com/29.19.Guebert.html
GENE LYONS:
Silencing scientists, doctors in the name of 'freedom'
The Price of
Amazon’s ‘Prime’ Business Model Is Our Bodies.
The billion-dollar company profits off pushing workers like me to our
physical limits — only to ignore us when we’re hurt on the job.
https://populist.com/29.19.Kohr.html
Time for a
General Strike on Dollar General. Dollar
General profits from paying poverty wages and selling unsafe food to poor
people. It feeds off the very inequality it’s accelerating.
https://populist.com/29.19.Pizzigati.html
A Wake Up Call on
Poverty. Hardship is far more widespread
than official numbers reflect. But we’ve also seen firsthand how to address it.
https://populist.com/29.19.Barnes.html
Fighting Killer
Dust
https://populist.com/29.19.Conway.html
The Inside Story
of How Wall Street Fleeced GM Autoworkers and Taxpayers. Stock buybacks have become the main goal in
life for corporate executives and activist stock sellers. And this sickness is
spreading.
https://populist.com/29.19.Leopold.html
Mary Sanchez:
What Taylor Swift can do for football
https://www.scribd.com/article/674553485/Mary-Sanchez-What-Taylor-Swift-Can-Do-For-Football
The EU’s Tough
New Rules for Tech. Will they survive an
intense and preposterous lobbying campaign by the US platform giants to brand
them as discriminatory against American companies?
https://populist.com/29.19.Kuttner.html
Kids Shouldn’t
Have to Pay for School Lunches: If education is free at the point of use, why
aren’t school meals?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/kids-shouldnt-have-to-pay-for-school-lunches/
Public education
is vital to a democracy, by Jesse Jackson
https://richmondfreepress.com/news/2023/oct/12/public-education-vital-democracy-jesse-jackson/
Sweet Charity: A
Hospital’s Take on the Virtue
https://populist.com/29.19.Retsinas.html
Does a College
Education Pay Off?
https://populist.com/29.19.Uretsky.html
Labor’s Moment
https://populist.com/29.19.OLeary.html
Taking to the
Streets to Get Homeless Into Houses. Interviewing housing activist Jovana
Fajardo
https://populist.com/29.19.Sandronsky.html
Good News – Big
Opportunities on the Horizon
https://nader.org/2023/09/29/good-news-big-opportunities-on-the-horizon/
How DeSantis Is
Using Sports to Hijack a Florida College.
The far-right extremists in charge of New College are recruiting
baseball players to overhaul the ideology of the student body.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/new-college-sarasota-florida-desantis/
Banned books show
how terrified parents really are about sex education
Economic Update:
What Socialism Needs to Succeed – October 31, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOReweZI92I
FDA moves closer
to sickle cell cure that uses gene editing.
If approved by the FDA, it would be the first medication on the market
that uses the groundbreaking gene-editing tool CRISPR.
Ask Prof Wolff
Live - November 1, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4dL4NB3SP4
UAW President Is
Ready to Take On Tesla and Beat Elon Musk
More Ohioans
turning to permanent contraception, amid abortion uncertainty
BIG by Matt
Stoller. Labor Unions Are Industrial
Policy. Last week, the United Auto
Workers reached a deal with Stellantis to re-open an idled Belvidere Assembly
Plant. "We made them invest," said transformational UAW President
Shawn Fain.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/labor-unions-are-industrial-policy
Economic Update:
Social & Labor Movements Claim Real Victories – November 6, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a67gjG-KaFI
We need to lower
the cost of prescription drugs and we need major NIH reform. – November 7, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-pquEdQfZc&t=3s
Can We Stop the
Republican War on Public Schools? There
is no more powerful urge humans can experience than to protect and defend our
children. For most people it beats hunger, sex, and money…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/can-we-stop-the-republican-war-on
Ask Prof Wolff
Live - November 8, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUo2U4dp4vY
Global
Capitalism: Socialism in Today's World: The 4 Kinds - November 8, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NcPW_1knLo
US credit card
balances see largest yearly leap on record
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/07/economy/household-debt-credit-card-delinquencies-q3/index.html
Letters From the
November 13/20, 2023, Issue. The
economics of freedom… Oppenheimer: red or pink?…
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/letters-from-the-november-13-20-2023-issue/
The problem isn’t
inflation. It’s prices. What goes up may
not come down. Like, ever.
https://www.vox.com/money/2023/11/8/23951098/economy-inflation-prices-job-market-sticker-shock
Study:
Inequitable school funding leaves behind children living in poverty and in
rural areas
https://radio.wpsu.org/2023-11-09/inequitable-school-funding-penn-state-study
Last week - New
partners joined the union in Redmond, WA and Midwest City, OK. And just a week
before #RedCupRebellion, Starbucks announced new benefits to "reinvigorate
partner culture." But they still fall way short of what partners actually deserve
and need. And, like previous times Starbucks is withholding these benefits from
organizing stores. That’s illegal, and is an example of the Unfair Labor
Practices (ULP) we’re going on strike to protest Nov 16.
https://mailchi.mp/dd3e6b8e25a3/is-starbucks-chocolate-a-dirty-trick-or-a-clean-treat-13933206
Economic Update:
Inequality Undermines Health & Healthcare in the U.S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k359Io6SmQA
Speaker Johnson
moves on two-step stopgap to avoid shutdown
https://thehill.com/homenews/4305611-speaker-johnson-moves-on-two-step-stopgap-to-avoid-shutdown/
Starbucks Workers
United: Red Cup Rebellion. On 11/16,
Starbucks workers are going on strike and asking customers and allies to hold
solidarity actions outside of non-union Starbucks stores to demand Starbucks
respect union rights.
https://starbucksworkersunited.controlshift.app/calendars/red-cup-rebellion
Unions Standing
Up Against Corporate Greed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieG5dXDub44
Student Debt
Relief
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf1CVmHHwjA
Ask Prof Wolff
Live - November 15, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huqldOV238U
Trusting Teachers
to Teach: Voters in the Pennridge community got tired of their school board
wasting their tax dollars on costly lawsuits over book banning and censorship.
https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/trusting-teachers-to-teach
Capitalism Hits
Home: What Are Some Life Supports For America's Failing Isolated Nuclear
Families? – November 16, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN5YEl-rdHo
General Motors
becomes 1st of Detroit automakers to seal deal with unionized workers
Sea Change: How a
New Economics Went Mainstream
https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/sea-change/
Ours Was the
Shining Future
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/217260/ours-was-the-shining-future-by-david-leonhardt/
Economists
Ignored Inequality for Years. Now They Can’t Stop Talking About It. A flurry of new books highlights broad
disagreements over how to address the problem
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/books/review/inequality-economy-books.html
Pennsylvania
House Approves Senate-Passed Bill To Let Medical Marijuana Growers Sell
Directly To Patients
The Contemptible
Thievery of Gentrification
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/the-contemptible-thievery-of-gentrification#details
Trucking Industry
Wails About Its Labor Shortage. Here’s a Solution.
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/trucking-industry-wails-about-its#details
Try This in a
Small Town. We don’t need more fear,
anger, or violence. We need public investment that helps hard working people
get by.
https://populist.com/29.20.Adams.html
Putting an End to
Divide and Conquer
https://populist.com/29.20.McCall.html
UAW Wins Fight
for Just Transition. What the United Auto Workers won from the \manufacturers
and why it matters so much.
https://populist.com/29.20.Leopold.html
Global
Capitalists or National Champions? As
long as production is domestic, does it matter whether a company creating jobs
for US workers is American, German, or Japanese?
https://populist.com/29.20.Kuttner.html
How California’s
Fast-Food Workers Won $20 an Hour
https://www.citywatchla.com/state-watch/27808-how-californias-fast-food-workers-won-20-an-hour
Nurses Fight the
Power
https://populist.com/29.20.Kalet.html
Let’s Trash Junk
Fees. Biden is cracking down on
deceptive fees that cost American consumers tens of billions of dollars a year.
https://populist.com/29.20.Sanderson.html
The ‘Am I Dying’
Test, plus a few others for Free-Market Enthusiasts
https://populist.com/29.20.Retsinas.html
Trouble at the
Neighborhood Pharmacy
https://populist.com/29.20.Uretsky.html
In California, a
Tale of Two Pharma Bills
https://populist.com/29.20.Sandronsky.html
The
Centrist-Corporative Nexus in Action
https://populist.com/29.20.OLeary.html
Medicare
Enrollees Can Switch Coverage Now. Here’s What’s New and What to Consider.
https://populist.com/29.20.Appleby.html
Inequality and
Lotteries
https://populist.com/29.20.Joseph.html
Rural Hospitals
Feel the Pinch as Medicare Advantage Plans Grow. Privatized Medicare plans have become dubious
payers for many large and small hospitals, which report the insurers are often
slow to pay or don’t pay.
https://populist.com/29.21.Tribble.html
Chap Ambrose Vs. Elon Musk: I’m Betting on Chap
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/chap-ambrose-vs-elon-musk-im-betting#details
Sports Betting in
Ohio: All Bets are Still On
https://populist.com/29.21.Rollins.html
Froma Harrop:
Montana turning into feudal estates
Listening to
Rural Working Families
https://populist.com/29.21.ArtCullen.html
Thou Shalt Not
Impede Gun Hobbyists’ Fun
https://populist.com/29.21.Young.html
COVID-19 Funding
Halted Rural Hospital Closures Across Texas, Until Now. La Grange, Texas, residents worked for months
to try to save the 65-bed hospital and asked the city to step in with a loan,
but it wasn’t enough.
https://populist.com/29.21.Salhootra.html
The Most
Pro-Union President in History Has Scored Another Big Win, in Case Anyone Cares
https://populist.com/29.21.Polman.html
UAW Wins for
Workers and the Environment — and Knocks Down a Favorite Trump Talking Point
https://populist.com/29.21.Clawson.html
Pathway to the
Middle Class
https://populist.com/29.21.McCall.html
Is a ‘Mayday!’
Now Looming for Our Billionaire Class?
The disaster the global super rich fear most may now actually
materialize — in 2028, with US auto workers leading the way.
https://populist.com/29.21.Pizzigati.html
Why is Biden
Cracking Down on Stock Buybacks in Just One Industry? The administration is using semiconductor
subsidies as a lever for discouraging CEO pay-inflating stock buybacks in that
industry. All companies receiving federal funds should face the same
restrictions.
https://populist.com/29.21.SAnderson.html
Debunking the
Latest Attack on Social Security.
Warmed-over arguments claim that the old have it too good at the expense
of the young. But the real division in America isn’t generation—it’s class.
https://populist.com/29.21.Kuttner.html
Universal Basic
Income: If it works for billionaires' children, why not the poor? America’s oligarchs have always known that
their warnings about making people ‘dependent on government’ and ‘lazy’ were a
scam…
https://populist.com/29.21.Hartmann.html
Does UAW Strike
Win Against Big Three Mean Pendulum Swinging Towards Labor Power? If the victory ripples across the auto
industry and encourages wage increases in other industries, it will also be a
victory for the American middle class. But the Federal Reserve is not yet done
attacking the working class.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/uaw-strike-win
Pick the Right
Medicare Before You Need It
https://populist.com/29.21.Uretsky.html
Pfizer Grows by
Merging with Seagen
https://populist.com/29.21.Sandronsky.html
4 more free COVID
tests will be available to each household ahead of the holidays. The winter season is expected to bring a
resurgence of the virus.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/4-free-covid-tests-household-ahead-holidays/story
Creative Builders
Get Rural Housing Done
https://populist.com/29.21.Marston.html
Economic Update:
When Labor Movements Rise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1onVVgX7e4
USW Mourns Loss
of Conway: Steelorkers' President Spent 45 Years Fighting for Justice for Workers
https://m.usw.org/news/publications/usw-at-work/uswwork-volume-18-issue-4
David McCall
takes the helm at USW
The Droll
Capitalist Parable of Cabbage Patch Kids.
A new documentary, “Billion Dollar Babies,” shows how a product of
Appalachian folk art drew the blueprint for all holiday toy crazes to come.
Cannabis Use Linked
to Epigenetic Changes, Scientists Reveal
https://www.sciencealert.com/cannabis-use-linked-to-epigenetic-changes-scientists-reveal
Court orders Pa.
health department to release doctor data for medical marijuana certifications
https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2023/11/medical-marijuana-doctor-data-ordered-released/
America’s public
schools are on their last legs: The proportion of students attending a school
with ‘chronic absenteeism’ has doubled since pre-pandemic times
A Warning from
1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert Reich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnd0eSuxu84
Embracing a
Circular Economy: Protecting Our Planet, Saving Money, and Creating Jobs
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/embracing-circular-economy-protecting-b7tyf/
High Gas Prices
Are Donald Trump’s Fault
https://cepr.net/high-gas-prices-are-donald-trumps-fault/
If Democrats Ran
Red States Fewer People Would Die. It
shouldn’t surprise us that a political party that swears its first allegiance
to billionaires and giant multinational corporations would choose money and
profits over health and life...
https://hartmannreport.com/p/if-democrats-ran-red-states-fewer
Where Did
America’s Middle Class Come From? The
Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream
https://hartmannreport.com/p/where-did-americas-middle-class-come
Beijing hospitals
overwhelmed with post-Covid surge in respiratory illnesses among children
Judge says
evidence shows Tesla and Elon Musk knew about flawed autopilot system
What the Gifted
Owe: "The Talented Tenth" asks what, if anything, the most privileged
among us owe their community.
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/stage/what-the-gifted-owe
Old Money
https://www.dailychatter.com/stories/old-money/
Making a Stink
https://www.dailychatter.com/stories/making-a-stink/
Economic Update:
American's Self Image VS Reality – November 27, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQhmKIgxoF8
Fetterman Says
Pennsylvania Is Getting ‘Lapped’ On Marijuana Legalization By Nearby States
Because GOP Opposes ‘Common Sense’ Policy
2022 Economic
Census – End of Data Collection
About 1 in 5
Parents Relied on a Relative for Child Care
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/11/child-care.html
Rise in U.S. life
expectancy is ‘good news,’ but gains aren’t enough to wipe out COVID losses
What makes nurses
vulnerable to burnout and how it impacts the care they provide
Dow ends
Wednesday near flat, but the major averages remain on track for big November
gains: Live updates
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/28/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
The Chip Powering
the A.I. Revolution. Nvidia’s C.E.O. bet
it all on a new kind of chip. Now that the company is one of the biggest
companies in the world, what will he do next?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/04/how-jensen-huangs-nvidia-is-powering-the-ai-revolution
How Moral Can
A.I. Really Be? A year after OpenAI
released ChatGPT, the chatbot is surprisingly good at parroting human values.
It may be as ethical as it’s going to get.
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/how-moral-can-ai-really-be
Poverty, by
America
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675683/poverty-by-america-by-matthew-desmond/
Ask Prof Wolff
Live - November 29, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TN8v0fcJ_A
Voters Reject the
Illiberal Bigotry of Moms 4 Liberty
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/voters-reject-the-illiberal-bigotry
The Case for
Ambulance Chasing Lawyers. Big business
has been going after plaintiff lawyers since the 1980s. Why? 90% of antitrust
cases come from private attorneys, restructuring everything from real estate to
college sports to big tech.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-case-for-ambulance-chasing-lawyers
Mysterious woman
tells school board that Scholastic book sparked porn addiction
https://popular.info/p/mysterious-woman-tells-school-board
New Director's
Blog: National Native American Heritage Month: Celebrating Tribal Identity with
Data
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USCENSUS/bulletins/37d8945
Options If You Can't Pay the Property Tax on Your
Home. If you're struggling to pay the
property taxes on your home, you could be at risk of losing the property to a
foreclosure or tax sale.
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/options-if-you-can-t-pay-the-property-tax-your-home.html
What to Do When You Can't Pay Your Property Taxes. Guidance for older Americans on fixed incomes
struggling with escalating property tax bills
https://www.nextavenue.org/what-to-do-when-you-cant-pay-your-property-taxes/
Autoworkers at
Tesla, BMW and more move to join UAW, union says. The campaigns involve employees at 13
non-union automakers, UAW said.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/autoworkers-tesla-bmw-move-to-join-uaw-union/story?id=105253895
Beyond Trump: Why
Is American Capitalism So Rotten? If you
want to understand where American capitalism is now and what you might do to
help move it in a more humane direction, you need to look under the hood.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/american-capitalism-so-rotten
The GOP Showed
Again How Anti-Worker It Really Is. At congressional hearings where they think
only their big donors are watching, they blurt out the truth.
https://newrepublic.com/article/177246/gop-showed-anti-worker-labor-unions
Economic Update:
The U.S. Military Machine & What It Costs – December 4, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh99KphKz7Y
Robert Reich
utterly EXPOSES Corrupt Schemes in MUST-SEE Interview | PoliticsGirl – December
6, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JafTcWCHWcM
The UAW Has Won a
Historic Victory. So What Comes Next? The
union’s triumph was a huge step forward in the quest to build a bigger and
bolder labor movement.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/uaw-strike-victory-analysis/
Going Viral. Influence and the rise of digital celebrity.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/taylor-lorenz-extremely-online/
Make the Economy
Scream: The Chicago Boys and the tragedy of the Chilean coup.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/chicago-boys-chile-neoliberalism/
Autoworkers—And
All of Us—Deserve a Much Shorter Workweek.
A 20-hour workweek is ours for the taking.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/20-hour-workweek-alex-han-united-auto-workers-uaw
Workers Are Dying
From the Heat: Why Is It so Hard to Protect Them? No federal heat standard exists and
lobbyists, corporate interests and those with fiercely anti-regulatory agendas
have been vocal and active in keeping it that way.
You Deserve a
4-Day Workweek. It’s time for Americans
to claw their lives back from work.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/4-day-workweek-unions/
Hard Times. The radical art of the Depression years.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/art-for-millions-depression/
Corridor
Identification and Development Program
https://railroads.dot.gov/corridor-ID-program
Capitalism Hits
Home: Addiction, Suicide, and Psych Drugs - Life Is Painful In Today's USA (1
of 2) – December 8, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwQHaGOGHBc
Can America Wake
Up from the “Free Market Magic” Lies?
America — and the Democratic Party — have arrived at one of our nation’s
history’s great crossroads. Hopefully, we’ll make it through…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/can-america-wake-up-from-the-free-d5e
US wage growth,
once an inflation risk, may be the prop a soft landing needs
It's one of the
biggest experiments in fighting global poverty. Now the results are in
Sen. Robert
Menendez, facing bribery charges, stumps bank CEOs by asking how much their
firms paid in settlements for allegedly ripping off consumers
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sen-robert-menendez-facing-bribery-213617840.html
No Contract, No
Coffee! Pledge To Act In Solidarity With Starbucks Workers United
https://crm.broadstripes.com/ctf/SJID0H
New report
unsurprisingly shows that profiteers have raised prices well above the rise in
costs
From Synapse to
Silicon. GW researchers are on the
forefront of a revolution in computer hardware innovation—designing and
fabricating computer chips that take inspiration from the human brain.
https://researchmagazine.gwu.edu/synapse-silicon
Fostering
Diversity in Economics, Chinemelu Okafor
created the Research In Color Foundation to aid aspiring economists of color.
https://magazine.gwu.edu/fostering-diversity-economics
A Place For My
Stuff
https://genius.com/George-carlin-a-place-for-my-stuff-lyrics
The Corporate
Sabotage of America’s Future
https://www.citizen.org/the-corporate-sabotage-of-americas-future/
Corporate
Prosecutions Remain Near Record Lows in Biden’s Justice Department
White House
March-In Plans Must Go Further to Challenge Big Pharma’s Monopoly Power
Facing Financial
Ruin as Costs Soar for Elder Care
The Billionaires
Behind School Privatization
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/the-billionaires-behind-school-privatization
Astonishing: A
Trailer Park Story With a Happy Ending! Jim Hightower on Nov 15, 2023
https://www.arcamax.com/politics/fromtheleft/jimhightower/s-2963480
Humanities
humanize our society. So ‘kill ‘em,’ say right wingers.
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/the-humanities-humanize-our-society
New Zealand’s
first C-130J emerges from paint shop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCDkLzjTwEI
Scientists make
'huge' $540 billion discovery at the bottom of a giant lake
https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/lithium-discovery-salton-lake-california
The Disappearance
of the American Dream. How our political
economy has led to an unfair distribution of income and wealth
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/the-disappearance-of-the-american-dream
Economic Update:
Politics, Economics & Chocolate: Capitalism's Flaws & Failures –
December 12, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWBCVBpthKc
Panera founder
says employees aren't motivated by the idea of making money for shareholders:
'Nobody cares' - Dec 11, 2023
Why Biden’s Good
Economic News Hasn’t Helped Him Politically—So Far. The economy is on an excellent track right
now—incredibly low unemployment, declining inflation, and stunning productivity
growth—but the president is still coping with income growth.
The Trouble with
Polling Third-Parties. Sure, third-party
candidates have decided any number of contests—including presidential races—but
experts are stymied by gauging how these potential spoilers will do come Election
Day.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/12/11/the-trouble-with-polling-third-parties/
Canceling Liz
Magill Will Be Bad News for Free Speech.
Ousting the University of Pennsylvania president doesn’t solve the real
problem: unnecessary speech restrictions applied hypocritically.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/12/11/canceling-liz-magill-will-be-bad-news-for-free-speech/
All the
Carcinogens We Cannot See. We routinely
test for chemicals that cause mutations. What about the dark matter of
carcinogens—substances that don’t create cancer cells but rouse them from their
slumber? - December 11, 2023
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/18/all-the-carcinogens-we-cannot-see
Ask Prof Wolff
Live - December 13, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYMhR1fXWl4
California is on
pace to have fewest annual deaths in four years, from all causes. COVID deaths are one third of what they were
last year, through Oct. 31.
Federal
Regulators seek to force Starbucks to reopen 23 stores
Federal
Rescheduling Of Marijuana Could Lead To Cascade Of State-Level Changes
LIVE: What is
Fueling the Diabetes Epidemic in America? – December 14, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sTwWfETPtU
Capitalism Hits
Home: Addiction, Suicide, and Psych Drugs - Life Is Painful In Today's USA (2
of 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIGqUFus9uY
Pennsylvania
Governor Signs Bill To Let Medical Marijuana Growers Sell Directly To Patients,
While Also Allowing Dispensaries To Cultivate
Owners of
Sullivan Tire give 100% company ownership to employees
Freedom and Power
(Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 4).
Why so many Americans feel powerless, and some are turning to Trump’s
neofascism.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/freedom-and-power-why-american-capitalism
Homelessness in
the U.S. hit a record high last year as pandemic aid ran out
https://www.npr.org/homelessness-affordable-housing-crisis-rent-assistance
Yesterday was the
anniversary of the Boston Tea Party: it happened exactly 250 years ago. And
once again there’s a growing movement in America to push back against
monopolistic corporate power. So, here’s an edited excerpt from my book Unequal
Protection: How Corporations Became “People”…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-boston-tea-party
Federal
regulators accused Starbucks of illegally closing 23 stores to squelch or
discourage union organizing.
https://us17.campaign-archive.com/?e=8fd44287f5&u=124bf9f01107a84c26f1f5568&id=cbc1e26ad5
Economic Update:
Facing The Human Rights Crisis – December 18, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HffBMNhhadc
More than half of
U.S. high school students will take a personal finance class before graduation,
following the passage of a new Pennsylvania law – December 16, 2023
Too Many People
with Too Few Resources Fuel War
https://populist.com/29.22.McMillen.html
Food and Peace
https://populist.com/29.22.ArtCullen.html
I Help Seniors
Get Health Care. Shouldn’t I Be Able to Afford My Own? President Biden needs to stand up for federal
call center workers like my colleagues and me.
https://populist.com/29.22.Jemenez.html
Jobs Today, Jobs
Tomorrow
https://populist.com/29.22.McCall.html
The UAW’s Game
Changer: The Right to Strike Over Mass Layoffs.
This historic victory could have significant benefits for all working
people
https://populist.com/29.22.Leopold.html
How to Make
America More Affordable. Regulation and
public investment are a better response to high prices than more interest rate
hikes.
https://populist.com/29.22.Baydoun.html
The Next Insulin
Scandal. A generic cold medicine
available in Europe also turns out to have benefits for Parkinson’s. Biden
could prevent the usual effort to patent it and jack up the price
https://populist.com/29.22.Kuttner.html
Remembering the
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/remembering-the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire/ar-AA1hY3Rk
Seeing Through
the Economic Bait and Switch
https://populist.com/29.22.Kolhatkar.html
New Report Says
EU Destroyed $4.3 Bn Worth of Wuhan Virus Vaccines | Vantage with Palki Sharma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p59b1u11PtE
Seeing Through
the Economic Bait and Switch
https://populist.com/29.22.Kolhatkar.html
The Case of Home
Dialysis, or When Money Supports Inertia
https://populist.com/29.22.Retsinas.html
Private employers
hire 113,000 new workers in October; pay growth slows
https://populist.com/29.22.Sandronsky.html
The Media
Monopoly Crisis. Our new special issue
takes on the out-of-control consolidation that is squeezing out independent
voices and controlling what we read.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/media-consolidation-monopoly-big-5/
In Turbulent
Times, Look for the Helpers. It’s been a
rough year. If you can lend a hand, these causes need—and deserve—your
assistance.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/holiday-donations-2024/
Lina Khan’s
Anti-Monopoly Power. Beginning in the
1970s, the Federal Trade Commission gave up on its mission to protect consumers
and competition. Then Khan took charge of the agency, and turned it on its
head.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/lina-khan-ftc-monopoly/
Local News Has
Been Destroyed. Here’s How We Can Revive It.
A plan to build back better.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/local-news-revival-plan/
The Definitive
Guide to Starting Your Own Media Company.
How to throw off the corporate shackles and launch an independent news
outlet.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/how-to-start-your-own-media-company/
UPDATE: School
board voters fight back
https://popular.info/p/update-school-board-voters-fight
President Biden
Delivers Remarks at the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onhP5OiWJyk
Nevada’s health
care industry faring well; health care consumers, not so much
Health Insurer
Financial Performance in 2021
https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/health-insurer-financial-performance/
A ‘momentous
victory’: Advocates celebrate anniversary of Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
Nursing homes
invest in campaigns, reap millions in taxpayer money
Complaints pile
up as Iowa ranks 49th among states in nursing home inspectors. Iowa’s use of privately employed inspectors
questioned by U.S. Senate committee staff
White House says
sale of U.S. Steel to foreign company deserves ‘serious scrutiny’
States, Biden
administration push efforts to aid renters, keep people housed
Using AI, MIT
researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates. These compounds can kill
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium that causes
deadly infections.
https://news.mit.edu/2023/using-ai-mit-researchers-identify-antibiotic-candidates-1220
Area homeless
people spend less time on the street. A
hundred homeless people in the Bay Area and Los Angeles received the payments,
no questions asked.
Santa Clara
County to give $1,200 monthly payments to homeless students finishing high
school
‘No strings
attached’: Oakland families to get $500 a month in ‘guaranteed income’
The Cultivator
Archive, Category:Newsletter Archive
https://www.cornucopia.org/category/newsletter-archive/
Kevin O'Leary
STUNS FOX host with MUST-SEE answer on the BIDEN BOOM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZiG_HhRDYE
Reaganomics
Ensured American Leisure for the Few, Not the Many. The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big
Business Destroyed the American Dream
https://hartmannreport.com/p/reaganomics-ensured-american-leisure
Why Stores Are
Removing Self Checkout Stands
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