News from LDH: Economics and Corruption related links 010317

Still falling short on hours and pay: Part-time work becoming new normal

http://www.epi.org/publication/still-falling-short-on-hours-and-pay-part-time-work-becoming-new-normal/?mc_cid=b9f35f7283&mc_eid=55c14bf053

A real agenda for working people: What Trump would do if he were serious about creating jobs, raising wages, and fixing our rigged economy

http://www.epi.org/workers-agenda/?mc_cid=b9f35f7283&mc_eid=55c14bf053

Andrew Puzder fails every test for a Labor Secretary

http://www.epi.org/blog/andrew-puzder-fails-every-test-for-a-labor-secretary/?mc_cid=b9f35f7283&mc_eid=55c14bf053

Heed union leader’s truth-telling on Trump/Carrier deal and judge on policy, not theatrics

http://www.epi.org/blog/heed-union-leaders-truth-telling-on-trumpcarrier-deal-and-judge-on-policy-not-theatrics/?mc_cid=b9f35f7283&mc_eid=55c14bf053

A public investment agenda that delivers the goods for American workers needs to be long-lived, broad, and subject to democratic oversight

http://www.epi.org/publication/a-public-investment-agenda-that-delivers-the-goods-for-american-workers-needs-to-be-long-lived-broad-and-subject-to-democratic-oversight/?mc_cid=b9f35f7283&mc_eid=55c14bf053

Employment fell because of the Great Recession, not the minimum wage: Study claiming the minimum wage harmed low-wage workers fails conventional tests

http://www.epi.org/publication/employment-fell-because-of-the-great-recession-not-the-minimum-wage-study-claiming-the-minimum-wage-harmed-low-wage-workers-fails-conventional-tests/?mc_cid=b9f35f7283&mc_eid=55c14bf053

How to Kill the Middle Class: Strangling public-sector unions in Wisconsin has shrunk teachers’ pay and benefits. Who’s next?

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/12/unions-wisconsin/509798/?mc_cid=b9f35f7283&mc_eid=55c14bf053

Donald Trump’s Cabinet Selections Signal Deregulation Moves Are Coming

http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-cabinet-picks-signal-deregulation-moves-are-coming-1481243006?tesla=y&mod=vocus&mc_cid=b9f35f7283&mc_eid=55c14bf053

Traders scheme to cash in on Trump tweets

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-tweets-traders-scheme-232534?ncid=newsltushpmgnews

Corporate Welfare Won’t Create Jobs

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/opinion/corporate-welfare-wont-create-jobs.html?link_id=0&can_id=cc9983302d3639a75c478fdcfd8f4861&source=email-must-read-new-york-times-op-ed&email_referrer=must-read-new-york-times-op-ed&email_subject=must-read-new-york-times-op-ed

TSCL Pushes For Emergency COLA

http://seniorsleague.org/0-3-cola-lowest-ever-paid/

Small bump for Social Security benefits next year

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/success/kiplinger/tca-small-bump-for-social-security-benefits-next-year-20161108-story.html

Join the Effort to Pass an Emergency COLA

http://seniorsleague.org/legislative-update-december-2016/

The real reason the GOP is gung-ho on repealing Obamacare: It would give the rich a huge tax cut

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-obamacare-tax-cut-20161216-story.html

With today’s rate hike, Fed signals they will tolerate excess unemployment

http://www.epi.org/press/with-todays-rate-hike-fed-signals-they-will-tolerate-excess-unemployment/?mc_cid=bad5f3ef5c&mc_eid=55c14bf053

How Investing In Preschool Beats The Stock Market, Hands Down

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/12/12/504867570/how-investing-in-preschool-beats-the-stock-market-hands-down?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20161218&utm_campaign=bestofnpr&utm_term=nprnews

The Obama Legacy: Place-Based Poverty

https://talkpoverty.org/2016/12/14/obama-legacy-place-based-poverty/

This Immigrant Doctor Is Reimagining Health in the American City

http://www.takepart.com/feature/2016/12/15/baltimore-public-health-commissioner?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2016-12-15-Daily

Management theory is becoming a compendium of dead ideas: What Martin Luther did to the Catholic church needs to be done to business gurus

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21711909-what-martin-luther-did-catholic-church-needs-be-done-business-gurus-management?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/20161215n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/NA/8374158/n

Michigan unemployment agency made 20,000 false fraud accusations – report

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/18/michigan-unemployment-agency-fraud-accusations?ncid=newsltushpmgnews

Trump’s Trade Agenda Would ‘Turn Back the Clock to Another Age’: Embracing bilateral deals and new tariffs, the incoming president casts a zero-sum view on world trade.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/12/22/trumps-trade-agenda-would-turn-back-the-clock-to-another-age/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=Flashpoints

Tea Leaves Forecast Assault on Working People

http://www.populist.com/23.01.djohnson.html

What Trumponomics Means for Women

http://otherwords.org/what-trumponomics-means-women/

Teamster Aims to Organize Communities Across Iowa

http://www.populist.com/23.01.artcullen.html

Ike’s Rich vs. Trump’s Rich: No Contest

https://ourfuture.org/20161207/ikes-rich-vs-trumps-rich-no-contest

Who Voted for Wall Street? Trump railed against Wall Street bankers on the campaign trail. Now they're joining his administration.

http://otherwords.org/who-voted-for-wall-street/

Will Trump Bring the Robot Apocalypse?