Saturday, October 17, 2020

Economics and Corruption and Healthcare and Education related links 101720


A Different Kind of College Ranking: Students are looking to hold schools accountable for doing good. We’ve got the metrics they need.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/september-october-2020/introduction-a-different-kind-of-college-ranking-11/

 

How to Save Higher Education: A New Deal for America’s sinking colleges.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/september-october-2020/how-to-save-higher-education/

 

Higher Ed’s Most Successful Failure: Why a proven reform to boost community college graduation rates can’t get traction.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/september-october-2020/higher-eds-most-successful-failure/

 

Why Apprenticeships Should Go Soft: A novel job training program fills the real skills gap.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/september-october-2020/why-apprenticeships-should-go-soft/

 

America’s Best Bang for the Buck Colleges: Our one-of-a-kind list of schools that help non-wealthy students attain marketable degrees at affordable prices.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/september-october-2020/americas-best-bang-for-the-buck-colleges-4/

 

Everybody In, Nobody Out

https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/everybody-in-nobody-out/

 

‘I don’t trust him’: How Trump Abandoned Workers When They Needed Him the Most

https://www.populist.com/26.16.conway.html

 

INSIGHT: The Simple Fix For Corporate Income Tax—Tax Stock Returns

https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/insight-the-simple-fix-for-corporate-income-tax-tax-stock-returns

 

Every Day Is Like Survival

https://www.populist.com/26.16.seggel.html

 

Teaching in a Pandemic: An Interview with Mercedes K. Schneider

https://www.populist.com/26.16.sandronsky.html

 

On the Cusp of a Sex Ed Revolution: Texas has its first opportunity in more than two decades to address gaps in its approach to sex ed.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/brownsville-texas-board-of-education-sex-ed-revolution-teen-pregnancy-lgbtq

 

Elon Musk Trades Insults With Robert Reich Over Tesla Pay Cuts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-09/elon-musk-trades-insults-with-robert-reich-over-tesla-pay-cuts?sref=0KUfhQHv&fbclid=IwAR3v_e4qWzYeyEg9C05T15I6h4wHKVTWgk8MP5RO5qBQ4ybezBGNXtV8hz4

 

Are We Seeing The Beginning Of A Global Food Crisis? Professor Richard Wolff Joins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVQ5HC47e4o

 

U.S. Reliance on China-Made Drugs and Supplies Spurs ‘Buy American’ Efforts

https://www.moaa.org/content/publications-and-media/news-articles/2020-news-articles/advocacy/u.s.-reliance-on-china-made-drugs-and-supplies-spurs-buy-american-efforts/

 

Exclusive: As Energy Secretary, Rick Perry Mixed Money and Politics in Ukraine. The Deals Could Be Worth Billions

https://time.com/5887230/rick-perry-deals-energy-ukraine/

 

Face Masks Can Prove Tricky for Those With Eyeglasses: Science offers solutions for when your specs fog up

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2020/eyewear-face-masks.html?cmp=SNO-ICM-FB-HLTH&socialid=3674304838

 

Why Fed Officials Are Begging for More Stimulus

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/why-fed-officials-are-begging-for-more-stimulus/ar-BB18ZjCc?ocid=sf

 

Trump’s National Labor Relations Board Is Sabotaging Its Own Mission: The federal agency that’s supposed to protect union rights is instead championing the interests of bosses.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-nlrb-labor/

 

House of Cards: Can the American university be saved?

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gig-academy-meritocracy-trap-universities-crisis/

 

The Forking Paths: C. Pam Zhang’s reenvisioned western.

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/cpam-zhang-how-much-hills-gold-review/

 

A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44890068-a-collective-bargain

 

The Fed Puts Its Independence on the Line: The central bank is on a one-way path to a larger role in our government and economy. Wall Street is thrilled, Main Street not so much.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fed-puts-its-independence-on-the-line-11599498437?reflink=share_mobilewebshare

 

Air safety bill prompted by 737 Max flaws pulled before vote: Bipartisan co-sponsors say they're still in agreement, but some committee members raised new concerns

https://www.rollcall.com/2020/09/16/air-safety-bill-prompted-by-737-max-flaws-pulled-before-vote/?fbclid=IwAR1EqG10hev60V7l8jTKU8X-NKIZBanoxDErZiAERHpkY9ij9qsdJX8oj1I

 

Capitol Ink | Sinking feeling

https://www.rollcall.com/2020/09/16/capitol-ink-sinking-feeling/?fbclid=IwAR3Iy3D6PpDECrP1oB91kSHSgwy-eniqmq3jBlFvTePfKYnY2g7LOMGQEWk

 

Where do we draw the line between life and death?

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/where-do-we-draw-line-between-life-death

 

The oldest known grass beds from 200,000 years ago included insect repellents: The ancient bed remnants include fossilized grass, bug-repelling ash and aromatic leaves

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/oldest-grass-beds-insect-repellent

 

New guidance on brain death could ease debate over when life ends: This clarity may help identify when the brain has stopped working, completely and irrevocably

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-guidance-brain-death-debate-over-when-life-ends

 

Commodity of Doom: Elegies for the cigarette

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/commodity-of-doom-marzoni

 

‘Jobless recovery’: Hiring resumes as layoffs stay high

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Jobless-recovery-Hiring-resumes-as-layoffs-15574364.php?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headlines&utm_campaign=sfc_businessreport&sid=5aa85dd5e3a98c41b4418bba

 

To Provide Public Alternative to 'Predatory' Wall Street Banks, Sanders and Gillibrand Unveil Postal Banking Act: "No one in America should have to pay a 400% interest rate on a $375 loan from a payday lender."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/09/17/provide-public-alternative-predatory-wall-street-banks-sanders-and-gillibrand-unveil?fbclid=IwAR2-qUxiwMSSxBJRcCCkpkbd4pjfKm_3SQuyoarjE-Cb0oyu3dLlnlDCzSg

 

Trump Voters Freak Out About Trump Tax Hike - Part 2 [old news- dating back to 2019]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M3zAwM2rEE&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0PYqrLAKmjChsS4J534x1h1g6C_YXj_xQoWG2hlFjezYRumfQzqq4J7ck

 

Economic Update: How We Get Beyond Capitalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9BNi6I53p0

 

The Social Progress Index offers a rich framework for measuring the multiple dimensions of social progress, benchmarking success, and catalyzing greater human wellbeing.

https://www.socialprogress.org/index/global/results

 

Jim Hightower: The Dow Jones v. the Doug Jones

https://magicvalley.com/opinion/columnists/jim-hightower-the-dow-jones-v-the-doug-jones/article_2514dd66-d0bf-556f-9edd-2766b48a3f06.html

 

We Need More Than Disaster Recovery — We Need Green Jobs: Across the South, many workers rely on industries whose pollution causes devastating storms. Let’s rebuild with sustainable jobs.

https://www.populist.com/26.17.tidwell.html

 

Organizing Labor in the Pandemic South

https://www.populist.com/26.17.atkins.html

 

The Comeback of Manufacturing Jobs: MAGA Land and the Real World

https://cepr.net/the-comeback-of-manufacturing-jobs-maga-land-and-the-real-world/

 

Spending on Prescription Drugs: Lies My President Told Me #3,475,652

https://cepr.net/spending-on-prescription-drugs-lies-my-president-told-me-3475652/

 

Heartland Tenants Who Beat the Odds: With an eviction crisis looming, take heart from these Minnesota renters who bought their buildings out from under a negligent landlord.

https://www.populist.com/26.17.janzer.html

 

Within Healthcare USA, Risk and Reward Have Never Been More Out of Kilter: Nurses are losing lives and jobs while execs rake in million after million.

https://www.populist.com/26.17.pizzigati.html

 

Professional Athletes Are Showing America Just How Powerful Labor Really Is

https://www.edgeofsports.com/2020-08-27-1551/index.html

 

What’s at Stake for the Labor Movement on Election Day? Everything.  Unions hope a Biden presidency will reverse decades of anti-worker policies.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/labor-workers-rights-biden-trump-2020-election-unions

 

What Does a “Safe Return” to School Look Like? Ask Teacher Unions.  Powerful elites are willing to sacrifice the lives and futures of millions to feed their own profits. Teachers are fighting back.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/what-does-a-safe-return-to-school-look-like-ask-teacher-unions

 

All the Options for Schooling Are Bad—But We Have to Choose Safety: On parents’ impossible decision.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/all-the-options-for-schooling-are-bad-but-we-have-to-choose-safety

 

Tenants Just Won a Nationwide Eviction Ban. They're Still Fighting to Cancel Rent.  President Trump’s surprise eviction moratorium is an election hail-mary. But to stave off a disastrous housing crisis, organizers say Democrats—including Joe Biden—must embrace bolder measures.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/eviction-cliff-crisis-cdc-moratorium-trump-biden-2020

 

Trump’s False Claims of Rampant Voter Fraud Draw From a Well-worn Racist Playbook: Republicans have tried to suppress turnout among voters who are poor, disabled or people of color for many years.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-gops-old-refrain-voter-fraud

 

Why did Mayor Kenney disable a tool for fighting blight in the name of ‘public safety’?

https://whyy.org/articles/why-philly-residents-are-mad-you-cant-search-city-property-owners-by-name-anymore/?mc_cid=100149a160&mc_eid=5d942a4ef8

 

Inside Big Pharma’s Stealth War on Drug Price Watchdog: Reuters Special Report

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2020/09/11/582136.htm?utm_content=coronavirus-recession-medical-trends-smoke-in-the-air-health-workers-loneliness-at-work-changes-from-covid&utm_campaign=workers-comp&utm_source=insurancejournal&utm_medium=newsletter

 

The End of the University: The pandemic should force America to remake higher education.

https://newrepublic.com/article/159233/coronavirus-pandemic-collapse-college-universities

 

From I to We: Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett’s vision for a new civic community

https://newrepublic.com/article/159276/the-upswing-book-review-robert-putnam-shaylyn-romney-garrett

 

Miranda July Takes on the Rigged System: In her new film, “Kajillionaire,” a family tries to slip free of capitalism.

https://newrepublic.com/article/159294/miranda-july-kajillionaire-film-review-capitalism-rigged

 

Job security, finances strongly related to increased anxiety during pandemic

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200924135325.htm

 

Boris Johnson is trashing Britain's reputation. Labour cannot stand by: Breaking international law will have disastrous consequences for the UK. The moment demands more than tactical silence

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/11/boris-johnson-britain-reputation-labour-international-law-uk

 

Conservative grandees call on Justice Secretary Robert Buckland to resign over Prime Minister's threat to break international law: It comes amid a searing row over the Internal Markets Bill, which would override parts of the UK’s Withdrawal Agreement with the European Union

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/robert-buckland-call-to-resign-brexit-bill-a4544446.html

 

Brexit deal breaches will harm hope of trade deal, Brussels chief warns Boris Johnson

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-brexit-deal-ursula-von-der-leyen-a4548586.html

 

Amazon to Hire 100,000 in U.S. and Canada: New full- and part-time positions will pay at least $15 an hour

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-hire-100-000-in-u-s-and-canada-11600071208

 

Vaccine maker got $1 billion from taxpayers. Now it’s boosting drug prices

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-09-14/drug-maker-got-1-billion-from-taxpayers-boosting-prices

 

Congress lacks urgency for more economic stimulus

https://www.axios.com/covid-stimulus-ppp-skinny-bill-386e4d89-2093-41ef-b28c-3c44b0611999.html

 

Worker-Focused Pandemic Relief Was a Success: But as Congress and the administration consider next steps, the fear of welfarism is colliding with sound policy and the principle of fairness.

https://thebulwark.com/worker-focused-pandemic-relief-was-a-success/

 

This week in Trumponomics: Washington is done helping

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/this-week-in-trumponomics-washington-is-done-helping-191712607.html

 

How’s the Coronavirus Economy? Great or Awful, Depending on Whom You Ask. Some people are paying off credit cards and padding savings. Others are going hungry or worried about eviction. Here’s how that divergence happened.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hows-the-coronavirus-economy-great-or-awful-depending-on-whom-you-ask-11599039003

 

How Citi's new CEO managed her work/life balance

https://www.axios.com/how-citis-new-ceo-managed-her-worklife-balance-bc69a92c-2d0f-455c-a8ec-3279ab97ed8b.html

 

The 57 people the Justice Department charged with trying to steal $175 million in coronavirus relief funds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/10/ppp-fraud-charges/

 

‘We were shocked’: RAND study uncovers massive income shift to the top 1%.  The median worker should be making as much as $102,000 annually—if some $2.5 trillion wasn’t being “reverse distributed” every year away from the working class.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90550015/we-were-shocked-rand-study-uncovers-massive-income-shift-to-the-top-1

 

Pennsylvania women and people of color are bearing the brunt of the recession, report shows

https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania-women-black-hispanic-unemployment-rate-coronavirus-government-shutdown-20200902.html

 

Trump Took Credit for Making Insulin “So Cheap It’s Like Water.” Tell That to People Paying for It.  “The sticker price for a three-month supply of the insulin I take is over $7,500.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/trump-took-credit-for-making-insulin-so-cheap-its-like-water-tell-that-to-people-paying-for-it/?fbclid=IwAR2NDRqr-BTSpefew_zFv6qbHOnk8Xc4Qqm1NU2rlvjDoKjM7XwOu7pa-Po

 

31.4% spring slide for a US economy likely to shrink in 2020

https://apnews.com/article/dwight-eisenhower-gross-domestic-product-archive-economy-42b79397f8f796ce61486a98346142bd?fbclid=IwAR3tsgjp--KLvYWsljHvV4hDPKpCDK0NWL6T6fJtYUrRy9k5pCEj0eGHNFU

 

American, United move ahead with more than 32,000 furloughs, but will recall workers if coronavirus aid deal reached

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/30/american-airlines-moves-ahead-with-19000-furloughs-but-will-recall-workers-if-cornoavirus-aid-deal-reached.html?fbclid=IwAR1yEwXMJRFEhRlOi8igKCJYUj8mVMaAZ_Uv04nIh60FeolPWuZsOkP_plk

 

New data show rich people hold more stocks than ever

https://qz.com/1910555/new-data-show-rich-people-hold-more-stocks-than-ever/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=daily-brief&utm_content=9858708

 

6 Places to Get Low-Cost or Free Mammograms — Even Without Insurance

https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/save-money/places-to-get-low-cost-or-free-mammograms/?aff_id=86&aff_sub3=20200930&aff_unique2=ITR-c2ca6b0b-8f85-4fad-8228-9fcc4a6565c0&utm_medium=email&utm_source=daily&utm_campaign=daily20201001&utm_content=savemoney&sms

 

Capitalism Hits Home: US COVID Response Destroys Education, Sets Women Back Decades

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOFZf71ODiY

 

Economic Update: Capitalism's Anxiety About the State

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie6IY-GuXDI

 

Russian State Media: U.S. Versus Russia in COVID-19 Vaccine Race

https://www.fpri.org/fie/russian-media-vaccine-us-sputnik-v/?utm_source=FPRI+E-Mails&utm_campaign=231b7fd67e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_05_02_10_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e8d0f13be2-231b7fd67e-179162711

 

Open Data Philly posts troubling new data on illegal tobacco sales to minors in Philadelphia

https://www.phila.gov/2020-10-08-open-data-philly-posts-troubling-new-data-on-illegal-tobacco-sales-to-minors-in-philadelphia/?fbclid=IwAR0vr49eiJDwBdGPLoYOZPO9iYcCZ4yJ0Ji0JeJuCqVEP9JdCb0aLaytJpI

 

Americans are finally saving more money - at exactly the wrong time

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/10/10/business/americans-are-saving-too-much-now-why-that-might-be-bad-economy/?s_campaign=breakingnews%3Anewsletter&fbclid=IwAR3EWja4UF41BaXkJooyzUO9ynXRYdSc6kfMKt1HEFF1zF-tsSoeeRhVQn0

 

'Shameless Stunt': Trump Reportedly Attempting to Raid Medicare Trust Fund to Pay for Drug Discount Cards With His Name on Them.  "There it is: Trump wants to steal billions from Medicare to pay for an illegal voter bribery scheme weeks before the election."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/09/shameless-stunt-trump-reportedly-attempting-raid-medicare-trust-fund-pay-drug?fbclid=IwAR1XwMMD3QMHUHr6pHJm9HGEViX4P7y12XWcOLDk-re8gzymjmutf7mSkr8

 

6 Places to Get Low-Cost or Free Mammograms — Even Without Insurance

https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/save-money/places-to-get-low-cost-or-free-mammograms/?aff_id=86&aff_sub3=20200930&aff_unique2=ITR-c2ca6b0b-8f85-4fad-8228-9fcc4a6565c0&utm_medium=email&utm_source=daily&utm_campaign=daily20201001&utm_content=savemoney&sms

 

Insurance Coverage for the Cost of Diabetes Education Classes

https://www.dummies.com/health/diseases/diabetes/insurance-coverage-cost-diabetes-education-classes/

 

Tax records show 200 entities funneled money to Trump properties while reaping benefits from White House: NYT

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/520549-tax-records-show-200-companies-groups-and-foreign-governments?fbclid=IwAR1tTL_4ZbYEDlj7ab_hlMZ5nwW09TSok13JJvZomM3tY672HRDu0weo324#.X4N3J1mo6M4.facebook

 

Sugar Can Make Symptoms of This Disease Worse, Study Finds: The results could lead to more dietary guidance for those with the disease, and for everyone regarding fructose.

https://www.eatthis.com/fructose-inflammatory-bowel-disease/?utm_source=nsltr&utm_medium=email&utm_content=fructose-inflammatory-bowel-disease&utm_campaign=etntNewsletter

 

Biden ‘blue wave’ would boost economy, says Goldman Sachs chief economist

https://fortune.com/2020/10/05/biden-win-2020-us-economy-goldman-sachs-predictions-blue-wave-democrats/

 

AskProfWolff: A Critique of Robert Reich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNRyDa79ygA

 

Economic Update: New U.S. Labor Militancy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0NbVh4GLIk

 

Prof. Richard Wolff: the Sickness is the System

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kew5vagDP2M

 

People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent

https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324004219

 

Nearly nine of 10 workers want to keep work-from-home option: survey

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-wfh-survey-idUSKBN26Z0S5?taid=5f86b715def8510001a353b6&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter&fbclid=IwAR2AdumEAhsjQaU136RELCg7G4S7XWrYHJ0d0Y7j1l54uT1eN36Auq_FLGE

 

Annual California Employment Law Update: New Laws for 2021 Provide COVID-19 Protections and Expand Family Leave

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/annual-california-employment-law-update-new-laws-2021-provide-covid-19-protections

 

RESTAURANT WORKERS ARE BUILDING SOLIDARITY AMID THE PANDEMIC

https://popularresistance.org/restaurant-workers-are-building-solidarity-amid-the-pandemic/

 

Meet the Warehouse Worker Who Took On Amazon Over Inhumane Conditions and Harassment

https://www.workplacefairness.org/blog/2020/10/05/meet-the-warehouse-worker-who-took-on-amazon-over-inhumane-conditions-and-harassment/

 

Meet the Warehouse Worker Who Took On Amazon Over Inhumane Conditions and Harassment

Hibaq Mohamed organized her community in a fight against Amazon, protesting working conditions at a fulfillment center with one of the highest rates of injury.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/amazon-profile-hibaq-mohammed

 

What a Just Transition Would Actually Mean for Workers: If there can be a Superfund for toxic dirt, there should be one for workers.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/a-just-transition

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