Worcester hospital announces plans to hire permanent
replacement nurses amid strike
If Democracy Is Dying, Why Are
Democrats So Complacent? Democrats are
unwilling to match their language of urgency with a strategy even remotely
proportional to it.
The Weak, Unconvincing Case
Against Vaping: Has our collective concern over teen vaping led us to ignore
the lives of millions and millions of smokers?
America's REAL injustice: The
plight of the poor hedge fund billionaires
Democrats Must Take Charge of
the Debate About Abortion: The danger of allowing right-wing extremists to
silence the pro-choice majority is becoming clearer than ever.
How Anti-Abortion Activists’
“Reckless Dream” Made It to the Supreme Court: In 2011, the first “fetal
heartbeat” bill was introduced in Ohio. The tactic was seen as too extreme to
ban abortion effectively, but a decade later it may pay off.
The Unique Dangers of the
Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear a Mississippi Abortion Case
The most pressing question now
may be not whether Roe and Casey can survive but how reproductive rights can be
sustained without them.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/07/the-unique-dangers-of-the-supreme-courts-decision-to-hear-a-mississippi-abortion-case?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_053021&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5f108bc3a1573c18f411ce44&cndid=61660189&hasha=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496&hashb=d66eda798d13296a4f50fdc8f2311240bd954c47&hashc=b797ec0058e74865fbe009ec53ab7d2888433ec403939f5df0581e6b656d5101&esrc=subscribe-page&mbid=CRMNYR012019&utm_term=TNY_Daily
What’s Really Fueling The U.S.
Labor Shortage | The Mehdi Hasan Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwV4wNzwawQ
The America of Tomorrow Could
Use a 20th-Century Welfare State
Workers would be earning $10
more per hour if their wages had kept up with the increase in productivity
For too long, ordinary Americans
have missed out on the gains of a growing economy. This wasn’t an accident.
The economic recovery is getting
messy. Just ask working women.
Rebel, Activist, Feminist &
Mother: Farmworker Organizer Dolores Huerta Profiled in New Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28-bRl56KJk
Amazon Wants to Eat Health Care
Next: The tech giant may be opening its own pharmacies, and Google wants to
mine patient data. The goal is not to fix a broken system but to exploit it.
Let's talk about gas prices,
Biden, and Trump....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6-nS69W1wU
Economic Update: Labor &
Capitalism's Rise & Fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Giyrnsxcyaw
Ask Prof Wolff: Marx's Flaws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U10SiCYw2U
Ten Years Ago: Unemployment
[10th Anniversary of Economic Update with Richard Wolff]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXApFcaruHQ
Ask Prof Wolff: Media Bias &
Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B02cq6kFEA
The Possibility of Biden
Becoming like FDR - Richard Wolff [Global Capitalism]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH0BJ4433j0
Life after Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXYK7XqndXY
Capitalism is broken. The
relentless pursuit of more has delivered climate catastrophe, social inequality
and financial instability—and left us ill prepared for life in a global
pandemic. Weaving together philosophical reflection, economic insight and
social vision, Tim Jackson’s passionate and provocative book dares us to
imagine a world beyond capitalism—a place where relationship and meaning take
precedence over profits and power. Post Growth is both a manifesto for system
change and an invitation to rekindle a deeper conversation about the nature of
the human condition.
https://timjackson.org.uk/ecological-economics/postgrowth-book/
Post Growth by Tim Jackson
review – life after capitalism: The ecological economist adds to his message
that relentless economic expansion is killing the planet with a set of more
philosophical reflections. But does ‘post growth’ offer as many answers as the
Green New Deal?
What Price Is Right? Both government regulators and private
companies regularly assign a monetary value to human lives. A new book argues
that the price is too low, and can entrench inequalitie
Capitalism Feeds Struggle and
Inequality
Does America Really Need Another
Oil Pipeline?
Do Republicans Really Want More
Poverty and Crime?
Memorial Day: More Than a Picnic
Donor Class Calls the Shots
Facebook plans to bury users who
regularly share misinformation: Get ready to see less from the worst people
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/26/22455076/facebook-misinformation-individual-users-hiding-posts
You Don’t Have to Root for
Melinda Gates: Rather than choose sides in this P.R. war of plutocrat divorcés,
we should scrutinize whether billionaire philanthropy really works.
Vietnam Detects New Highly
Transmissible Coronavirus Variant
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/05/vietnam-highly-transmissible-coronavirus-variant.html
How to Repair the American Mind: Skeptical Inquirer on
Fixing Our Cognitive Crisis
How to Repair the American Mind:
Solving America’s Cognitive Crisis
Down with Science—but Why?
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2021/04/down-with-science-but-why/
CONGRESSMAN BOYLE INTRODUCES THE
CLEAN MONEY ACT
https://boyle.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-boyle-introduces-clean-money-act
BOYLE, WARREN, JAYAPAL INTRODUCE
ULTRA-MILLIONAIRE TAX ON FORTUNES OVER $50 MILLION
Biden’s Shameful, Conservative
Stance Against Legal Pot in D.C.: His outdated view of marijuana legalization is
blinding him to the will of the District’s voters.
Biden’s Infrastructure Week Is
Turning Into a Joke, Too: The Trump era’s most infamous metaphor takes on a new
meaning as “bipartisan” negotiations drag on.
Oligarch of the Month: Bill
Gates. Gates was a lovable nerd who was
out to save the world. Now, he’s a tech supervillain who wants to protect
profits over public health.
Paid leave is incredibly popular
— even with Republicans: Democrats, Republicans, and independents
overwhelmingly support federal paid leave policies.
https://www.vox.com/2021/6/7/22380427/poll-paid-leave-popular-democrats-republicans-covid-19
Many More Americans Would Be
Vaccinated if Our Health Care System Wasn’t So Terrifying: People don’t trust
an industry known for bureaucratic traps and surprise billing to save them from
the pandemic.
060121 Socialism or Capitalism?
Arthur Brooks and Richard Wolff Debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FwT6qMLjeg
060321 Wolff Responds:
Explaining Biden's Economic Plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPaGWfFdh2A
060421 Ask Prof Wolff: Founding
Fathers, Capitalism vs. Socialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ENNDKlCtDE
060421 Prof Richard Wolff: Thank
Capitalist Ideology For The World Suddenly Running Low On Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6zq1OFkVXo
060521 The US’ Position as the
Dominant Capitalist Power Is Changing - Richard Wolff [Global Capitalism]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1kt7dsN7K8
060521 Professor Richard Wolff
talks to Jackie and RJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhzV5hIsQ74
060721 Economic Update: A
"Living Wage"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GefK8ZdsPBU&t=3s
Solomon's Schools-to-Work bill
on way to creating local career pathways all across PA
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: The
Politics of Austerity of the 70s & 80s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeyXiH7dTtQ
That $5 Uber Ride, $8 Burrito,
and the Brutal Costs of “Cheap”: Wage increases and other rising expenses are
being “passed on” to the consumer, we’re told. But we’re looking in all the
wrong places for the true costs of how we live.
“Populist” Conservatives Rush to
the Defense of Megarich Tax Dodgers: For all the talk of the GOP’s new
working-class focus, it’s as eager as ever to serve the interests of plutocrats
at the expense of everyone else.
Philly Council bill limiting
landlords’ use of eviction records advances
https://whyy.org/articles/philly-council-bill-limiting-landlords-use-of-eviction-records-advances/
We Regret to Inform You That
Workers Are Not Suddenly Winning: Wages and job openings are up. Here’s why
they won’t stay that way.
The Sleazy Story of How Biogen’s
New Alzheimer’s Snake Oil Got Approved: The FDA should be our toughest
regulatory body, but the pharmaceutical lobby has torn it to shreds.
+You: Advocating for home
affordability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6XWurT7G60
Robot chemist offers insight
into the origins of life
When the Government Supported
Writers: The Federal Writers’ Project created jobs, built trust, and
invigorated American literature. We should try it again.
The End of Friedmanomics: The
famed economist’s theories were embraced by Beltway power brokers in both
parties. Finally, a Democratic president is turning the page on a legacy of
ruin.
The IRS Could Be a Force for
Social Good: Republicans rigged the IRS in favor of the rich. Biden can revive
the agency to serve the rest of us.
House Lawmakers Release
Anti-Monopoly Agenda for “A Stronger Online Economy: Opportunity, Innovation,
Choice”. Bipartisan legislation will restore competition to digital marketplace
and rein in largest tech platforms
Why Don’t We Pay Family
Caregivers What They’re Owed? Millions
of people in the United States provide essential care for children, aging
parents, or loved ones with disabilities. It shouldn’t be this hard to make it
work.
Let’s Tax Dead People: The only
sure things in life are death and taxes. Joe Biden has a plan to bring them
together to benefit all Americans.
How much is too much? Yes, every billionaire is a policy failure.
But more than that, every billionaire is a failure of our own moral
imagination.
June 21st is Child Tax Credit
Awareness Day: Help us spread the word about the largest child tax credit ever
https://blogs.va.gov/VAntage/90345/june-21st-child-tax-credit-awareness-day/
What Made Gilded Age Politics So
Acrimonious? Fearful of increasing
participation, elites of the era attempted to rein in democracy.
Brett Kavanaugh may have set the
stage for upending the NCAA model
The NCAA Is Screwed: The Supreme
Court’s unanimous decision in NCAA v. Alston has put the end of the
organization’s exploitation of college athletes in sight.
Opinion: COVID showed ‘housing
is healthcare.’ Let’s build on the lesson.
The pandemic underscored problems in how the health system serves
homeless populations — it’s time to fix them.
The Rise and Fall of an Herbal
Viagra Scammer: An internet huckster got rich selling a sex enhancement
supplement named Stiff Nights. Then the FDA sampled his wares.
The Darker Story Just Outside
the Lens of Framing Britney Spears: The documentary and #FreeBritney movement
treat the pop star’s conservatorship as strange and exceptional. The truth is
much more troubling.
#FreeBritney
Is Damn Right: The law has failed Britney Spears and likely many others—young,
old, often female. Now it’s time to change it.
Capital Defeats Labor at the
Supreme Court, 6–3: The Roberts court deals a blow to California farmworkers’
ability to organize, in a ruling that may have dire implications for unions and
regulators.
Like Airbnb, but for Flophouses:
A Georgia start-up aims to become the Airbnb for temporary shared housing. It
calls it a solution to the housing crisis. Former tenants tell a different
story.
The Millionaires Who Want to
Abolish Extreme Wealth: In an unequal economy, even some of the winners are
unhappy.
Today Is Child Tax Credit
Awareness Day — Here’s What You Need to Know to Claim Your Credit
The real crisis for American
democracy is our cowardly inability to tax the rich | Will Bunch
A leak of IRS records shows the
super-rich like Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett pay hardly any taxes. Put a fork
in America if we don't do something.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/bezos-musk-buffett-dont-pay-any-taxes-20210627.html
The Swashbuckling Lawyer Who’s
Taking on the Sackler Family: Thanks to one judge, members of the family that
made billions from OxyContin could escape justice for their role in the opioid
epidemic. Mike Quinn may be the best hope of holding them to account.
Walmart to offer own low-cost
brand of insulin
MORE THAN $425 MILLION PROMISED
FOR RENTAL ASSISTANCE DIDN’T MAKE IT TO TENANTS OR THEIR LANDLORDS
A good teacher can teach any
subject as long as they have high-quality resources. Teacher Institute for
Evolutionary Science (TIES) provides middle school and elementary teachers the
tools they need to effectively teach evolution and answer its critics based on
new Next Generation Science Standards.
Effective Teaching of Critical
Thinking with Ray Hall | Skeptic's Toolbox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEFnhx-pzYU
Tools for Non-Confrontational
Discussions with Anthony Magnabosco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORPxtoBDFI4
Five Ways to Inoculate Against
Viral Nonsense: Practical Lessons from the Science of Mental Immunity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to9xJq9oEWo&t=1s
Why Psychology Matters
https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/why-psychology-matters/
Ask Prof Wolff: Private Profit
Systems Are NOT Permanent 061121
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I3qPaEIjMs
Wolff Responds: Forced Labor US
Style 061221
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKEc2Hx4oMI
Economic Update: The Center
Cannot Hold 061421
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pce4gMx2h4
US Major Parties in Impossible
Situations and Losing their Hold - Richard Wolff 061521
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBmG_OGV53I
Ask Prof Wolff: Reform vs.
Revolution 061621
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXH1XgzEZ8E
Prof. Wolff: What Will it Take
to Tackle the Climate Crisis? 061721
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elOi6cljx0I
Marxism After Marx: Richard
Wolff 061721
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33fxAsUiHMo
Ask Prof Wolff: What is the
Surplus Value of a Secretary? 061821
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K4fO98KOKo
Economic Update: Insurgent
Working Class & Organization 062121
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7d-l8_eedI
The Effects of Trump's Tariffs
on China - Richard Wolff 062221
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blv6LGzZZqo
The Economy is Growing and Failing
At The Same Time: Professor Richard Wolff Explains 062221
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTxKD-hts6M
Wolff Responds: There is NO
"Labor Shortage" 062221
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyjuQy2vrC4
Ask Prof Wolff: Corporatism vs.
Capitalism 062321
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIAmzgdB40w
Ask Prof Wolff: Copyrights &
Capitalism, A Critique 062521
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj_bSC6PCPs
Ten Years Ago: European Debt
Crisis [10th Anniversary of Economic Update with Richard Wolff] 062621
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xes6EnON54
Wolff Responds: Miami
Catastrophe & Capitalist Incentives 062821
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB0vZbD9jPs
Economic Update: How Capitalism
Shapes Our Food 062821
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlaOTJxB52w
Capitalism Incentivized Vaccines
over Lockdowns & Profits Over People - Prof Wolff 062821
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivLzzltRxQI
Changing the Food System Through
Activism- Mark Bittman 062821
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW3WN3e3cWI
Ask Prof Wolff: Marxism and
Prostitution 063021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEdTAiNk0s0
WAGES ARE RISING AGAIN — FOR
SOME MORE THAN OTHERS
JOIN US: LIVE DISCUSSION ON
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND RACE IN KANSAS CITY
6 questions with Liz Essley
Whyte from the Center for Public Integrity
What the Rich Don’t Want to
Admit About the Poor
How Many Students Are Living in
Poverty? The Number Is Likely Wrong
U.S. Added 850,000 Jobs in June
Labor Rebound: Increase in jobs was the strongest since last August, as more
Americans joined the labor force
https://www.wsj.com/articles/june-jobs-report-unemployment-rate-2021-11625176511
Ransomware Attack Affecting
Likely Thousands of Targets Drags On: REvil is said to have focused on Kaseya
VSA, a software used by large companies and technology-service providers to
manage and distribute updates
Charter Schools Aren’t the
Answer, but Community Schools Could Be: If our mission is to make sure all
children receive a great education, then community schools—which offer services
like free healthcare and meals—might be our best bet.
When Teachers Practice Mutual
Aid, the Whole School Thrives: Last year, with the government failing to
provide meaningful COVID-19 aid, teachers stepped up by caring for each other
and their students.
In a Divided Country, Communal
Living Redefines Togetherness: The traditional home is under renovation. Can
people find meaning in groups?
Hundreds of US companies hit by
‘colossal’ cyberattack before July 4th
https://nypost.com/2021/07/03/hundreds-of-us-companies-hit-by-colossal-cyberattack/
Making the Child Tax Credit
Permanent Would be a Boost to the Economy, According to Some Experts
The Civil Rights Icon Who Saw
Freedom in Farming: Fannie Lou Hamer viewed co-ops as the foundation of
political power.
An Herbal Viagra Scam and the
Hard Truth About the Dietary Supplement Industry: A prolific seller of
“all-natural” sexual enhancement pills was shut down by the FDA. So why can you
still buy Stiff Nights all over the place?
Oil prices surge after OPEC+
calls off talks
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/05/investing/opec-meeting-canceled-oil-production/index.html
World shares cling near record
highs
https://www.reuters.com/business/global-markets-wrapup-4-2021-07-05/
Facebook, Twitter, Google
Threaten to Quit Hong Kong Over Proposed Data Laws: Industry group representing
companies says proposed anti-doxing rules could put staff based locally at risk
of criminal charges
Blood Donation Need Still
Critical: The American Red Cross currently has a severe shortage alert in
regards to lifesaving blood products. Hospital demand continues to outpace
donations, so the Red Cross strongly urges healthy, eligible individuals who
are feeling well to give blood, platelets, or plasma to help maintain a
sufficient supply for those battling COVID-19, cancers, other infections, or
trauma victims. Those who donate July 7-31, 2021, will receive a $10 Amazon
gift card via email and be automatically entered for a chance to win gas for a
year. Please schedule an appointment using the Red Cross Blood Donor app,
visiting RedCrossBlood.org, or calling 1.800.RED.CROSS (1.800.733.2767).
https://www.redcrossblood.org/local-homepage/events/chance-to-win-gas-for-a-year-.html
Don’t Erase Disability From the
#FreeBritney Movement: Britney Spears’s abusive conservatorship must be viewed
from a disability rights perspective.
Private-Equity ‘Vampires’ Run
Into a Wall of Worker Resistance: The sudden plan to close a plant in
Janesville, Wisconsin, has led union workers to launch a major campaign as they
fight for their jobs.
Every kid in Pa. has the right
to a school year ‘do over.’ But if families want that, they have to act fast.
“Virtual just did not work, he
didn’t really have a kindergarten year — he lost a year of school,” said parent
Heidi Allen.
Stimulus Package Update Offers
Free Health Insurance Through The End of the Year
Against Remote Work: After
decades of being about to catch on, remote work may have finally arrived for
good. But at what cost to our privacy and sanity?
The Silent Lessons of A Quiet
Place Part II: Deafness has become a hot subject in moviemaking, but one with a
tense relationship to the world deaf people actually live in.
Why it's not always our fault if
we choose unhealthy foods
The Broken Promise of Retirement:
If the US does nothing to fix its retirement system, 2.6 million formerly
middle-class workers will be plunged into poverty by 2022.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/07/01/broken-promise-of-retirement/
Food that boosts gut microbes
could be a new way to help malnourished kids: Malnourished children fed the new
food did better than those who got traditional supplements
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/gut-microbe-food-malnourished-children
After 40 years of AIDS, here’s
why we still don’t have an HIV vaccine: The complex biology of HIV makes the
virus a tough target to tackle
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/aids-hiv-vaccine-anniversary-immunity-antibodies
‘Capitalism without competition
is exploitation,’ says Biden as he signs order – live
Trauma Informed Care Interview
on KER Cast
https://healthasahumanright.wordpress.com/2020/12/17/trauma-informed-care-interview-on-ker-cast/
EV deal shows 'Lithium Valley'
could be for real
Biden launches assault on
monopolies: The sweeping executive order takes aim at concentrated markets in
industries including agriculture, airlines, broadband and banking — and
includes efforts to lower drug prices and protect privacy.
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