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Home Sellers Are Slashing Prices in Pandemic Boomtowns: Redfin found that 70% of homes for sale in Boise, Idaho, had their price cut in July, the highest share of 97 metros.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-22/cheap-homes-house-prices-are-being-slashed-in-former-pandemic-boomtowns

Ford cutting 3,000 corporate jobs as part of its shift to EVs

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/22/cars/ford-job-cuts/index.html

Brain-zapping cap appears to boost memory for at least 1 month, early research finds: Researchers say the technology could one day be used at home and enhance memory function in people at risk for dementia.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/brain-zapping-cap-appears-boost-memory-least-1-month-early-research-fi-rcna43949

What President Biden's decision on student loans means for your family - Aug 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Kt5MyRkfM

What you can do to prevent a monkeypox infection: The best prevention plan with what we know so far.

https://www.popsci.com/diy/how-does-monkeypox-spread/

What to know about polio boosters, oral vaccines, and your medical history records: The polio vaccine you got as a kid should still be working.

https://www.popsci.com/health/polio-vaccine-booster-questions/

Community Catalyst has a new strategic plan.

https://communitycatalystvision.org/

Biden announces student loan forgiveness plan - Aug 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQhjSxMqt4M

Joe Biden’s $10,000 Student Debt Cancellation Is a Huge Win—but It’s Not Enough: It’s time to make higher education a true public good, with free-college legislation.

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/biden-student-debt-cancellation-loans/&utm_source=one-signal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2022-08-24

What makes power hungry bosses tick? And what can be done about it?

https://phys.org/news/2022-08-power-hungry-bosses.html

Biden’s Student Debt Relief Program Is Excellent, but Student Loans Suck to Begin With: Bernie Sanders got this right: We’ll have to make college free, or close to it.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167531/biden-student-debt-relief-excellent-loans-suck

No, the Inflation Reduction Act Did Not “Overturn” West Virginia v. EPA: The new piece of legislation is not the final word on greenhouse gas regulation. The Supreme Court has seen to that.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167520/inflation-reduction-act-overturn-west-virginia-epa

Outrage of the Month: Big Pharma’s “Unsustainable, Unjustified and Unfair” Business and Pricing Practices

https://www.citizen.org/article/outrage-of-the-month-big-pharmas-unsustainable-unjustified-and-unfair-business-and-pricing-practices/

Since 1971, Public Citizen has helped make the country healthier, safer and more democratic. Here are some of the victories we have won for consumers, justice and democracy.

https://www.citizen.org/victories/

Amazon’s Global Quest to Crush Unions: The online conglomerate is finally facing union drives in the U.S., but it has decades of experience quashing them in Europe.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167263/amazons-global-quest-crush-unions

Common antidepressant shows no benefits, higher risk of death for dementia patients

https://studyfinds.org/common-antidepressant-dementia/

MedWatch: The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program

https://www.fda.gov/safety/medwatch-fda-safety-information-and-adverse-event-reporting-program

Cities After... The Growing Suburban Divide: COVID-19 Boomtowns and the Future of Sprawl - Pt. 1 - Aug 19, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-_quI3pBcg

Cities After... Andrew Ross on the Growing Suburban Divide - Pt. 2 - Aug 20, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xX8zNEap7E

Cities After...The Growing Suburban Divide: Contradictions in the Future of Sprawl - Pt. 3 - Aug 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e67RdNevOc

Cities After...Josep Bohigas on the Growing Suburban Divide: An International Perspective - Pt. 4 - Aug 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQP62rQEMRY

Technology in a Class Society - Anti-Capitalist Chronicles with David Harvey - Aug 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm7gEBjcxac

Centrists Don’t Like Biden’s Student Loan Plan. So Why Don’t They Do Something About It? Moderates don’t actually have any ideas to address the student loan crisis.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167547/student-loans-centrist-higher-education

Buckminster Fuller’s Greatest Invention: His vision of a tech-optimized future inspired a generation. But his true talent was for burnishing his own image

https://newrepublic.com/article/167229/buckminster-fullers-greatest-invention

Six Stops on the National Security Tour: Rethinking Warfare Economies

https://www.routledge.com/Six-Stops-on-the-National-Security-Tour-Rethinking-Warfare-Economies/Pemberton/p/book/9780367257675

Republicans Opposing Student-Loan Relief Are Forgetting the Biblical Tradition of Debt Forgiveness

https://time.com/6208577/student-loan-forgiveness-republicans-christianity-bible/

The Real Heroes Behind Biden’s Student Debt Announcement: Though not nearly enough, the president’s move is a good one—and is the result of a decade-plus of activism by thousands of brave Americans.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167539/activists-student-debt-biden-plan

Prof Michael Hudson | How BANKING Became EVIL - Aug 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjyYrC0LpNY

Cities After...Laura Raicovich on Oligarchy and Dark Money: Museums, Art and Culture - Pt. 2 - Aug 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQqWXig2krQ

Cities After...Oligarchy and the Dark Side of Urbanization: Infrastructure and Public Spaces - Pt. 3 - Aug 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DjOIFgXSzI

Cities After...Miodrag Mitrašinović on Public Space, Oligarchy and Urbanization - Pt. 4 - Aug 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql64_lIK_4s

Cities After...Climate Change Series: The Circular Economy - Pt. 4 - Sep 13, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=849qmkiND10

Rare earths crunch? Why we need them and who has them | Business Beyond - May 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL4YXCKrJJ4

Biden’s Student Debt Relief Program Is Excellent, but Student Loans Suck to Begin With. Bernie Sanders got this right: We’ll have to make college free, or close to it.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167531/biden-student-debt-relief-excellent-loans-suck

Insurance Companies Are WORSE Than Wall Street! w/Michael Hudson - Aug 28, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOJfOy7CNrM

What kind of impact will student loan relief have on US economy? - Aug 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQEdzGwxlN8

Prof Michael Hudson | New York's RENT SCAM - Aug 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jey042-JPQ

Minneapolis Teachers Tragically End Seniority for Diversity — Paul Prescod - Aug 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE0WfmWD5Kg

Student Debt Is Evil & A Crime Against Our Nation: Since the Reagan Revolution, student debt has crippled three generations of young Americans, totaling a $1.8 trillion drag on our economy that benefits nobody except GOP-supporting banksters

https://hartmannreport.com/p/student-debt-is-evil-and-a-crime?fbclid=IwAR0YHCdEVVS2NN4OCX-Vx8BO0INxnclCibBwc1GRdIMkPDE4ZtV4zn-XsuE

All Things Co-op: Our Ecological Imperative - Premiere Started Aug 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEuk4rB8Nrg

Can the Conservative Legal Movement Stop Biden’s Student Loan Relief Plans? A lot of the administration’s plans have perished at the hands of the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc. But killing this debt-forgiveness program will be tricky.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167574/conservative-judiciary-student-loan-forgiveness

Capitalism Hits Home: Trauma & Survival Mechanisms - Premiere Started Sep 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa-snNV2q3o

Cities After...Grassroots Special: Lessons for Collective Action - La PAH’s Fight for Housing Rights - Sep 1, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeDozSZdIk8

Cities After...Urban Ecology, Dialectical Thinking, and Climate Change - Pt. 1 - Sep 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7DQ2BKZF7M

Cities After...Urban Ecology, Dialectical Thinking, and Climate Change: Electric Vehicles - Pt. 2 - Sep 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfSt5-UGnaE

Biden announces plans to give pay raises to federal employees in 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/31/biden-pay-raise-federal-2023/

The Real Reason Teachers are Quitting | Robert Reich - Aug 31, 2022

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

Many people opted to put their professional dreams on hold after enduring the stresses brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. We asked people who quit their jobs during the “Great Resignation” how it helped them reconnect with their loved ones.

https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?abVariantId=0&campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20220901&instance_id=70732&nl=updates-from-the-newsroom&productCode=UFN&regi_id=168579403&segment_id=102934&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2F15d98158-24f2-550a-a736-6e0469bb3d7c&user_id=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496

Q2 2022 CORPORATE PROFITEERING FINDINGS

https://groundworkcollaborative.org/resource/q2-2022-corporate-profiteering-findings/

What would it look like if we started paying for unpaid labor? It’s not a coincidence that women do, on average, double the amount of unpaid labor as men, and that millions of women have left to workforce in the last two years. So how can we solve the problem?

https://www.fastcompany.com/90725985/what-would-it-look-like-if-we-started-paying-for-unpaid-labor

Why people in State College and rural north-central Pa. don’t have easy access to in-person abortion services

https://www.spotlightpa.org/statecollege/2022/08/state-college-abortion-providers-access-centre-county/

Designed to Deceive: a Study of the Crisis Pregnancy Center Industry in Nine States

https://alliancestateadvocates.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/107/Alliance-CPC-Study-Designed-to-Deceive.pdf?link_id=39&can_id=1d0923a39dd9395ca5e7b571495ca9ab&source=email-the-broadsheet-and-the-lyco-progressive-3&email_referrer=email_1648913&email_subject=the-broadsheet-and-the-lyco-progressive

Man who voted for Trump twice has surprising opinion about Biden's move - Sep 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad8qiugFZgE

Lynn Parramore on Healthcare & The United States of Death - Premiered Sep 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itb6qCWuBDs

A Healthy Jobs Report Leaves Republicans Scrambling and Biden Smiling: After creating 1.1 million jobs since May, the economy has now recovered all the jobs lost to the pandemic.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/a-healthy-jobs-report-leaves-republicans-scrambling-and-biden-smiling

There’s Never Been a Better Time to Be a Scammy Nonprofit: The IRS has lost its ability to investigate tax-exempt organizations. What will that mean for our political system?

https://newrepublic.com/article/167244/theres-never-better-time-scammy-nonprofit

The U.S. diet is deadly. Here are 7 ideas to get Americans eating healthier

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/08/31/1120004717/the-u-s-diet-is-deadly-here-are-7-ideas-to-get-americans-eating-healthier

I Helped Coin the Phrase “Middle-Out Economics.” Biden Is Making It a Reality. There’s a lot left to do, but the administration’s four big bills—Covid relief, infrastructure, CHIPs, and the Inflation Reduction Act—are a stirring refutation of trickle-down economics.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167506/biden-middle-out-economics

The Surprisingly Disappointing Reign of Marty Walsh, Biden’s Labor Secretary: He’s a nice guy, and the unions like him. But he doesn’t have much of an agenda, and doesn’t seem to want one.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167657/labor-marty-walsh-unions-biden

Bed Bath & Beyond executive jumped to his death from high-rise apartment balcony, law enforcement source tells CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/04/business/cfo-bed-bath-beyond-jumps-off-nyc-tower/index.html

Bed Bath & Beyond executive jumped to his death from high-rise apartment balcony, law enforcement source tells CNN

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bed-bath-and-beyond-executive-jumped-to-his-death-from-high-rise-apartment-balcony-law-enforcement-source-tells-cnn/ar-AA11sE5C?li=BBnbfcL

Breakthrough new technique destroys cancer using sound waves

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/breakthrough-new-technique-destroys-cancer-using-sound-waves/ar-AA11wHNW

Biden Administration Releases Plan for $50 Billion Investment in Chips: The Commerce Department issued guidelines for companies angling to receive federal funding aimed at bolstering the domestic semiconductor industry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/business/economy/biden-tech-chips.html

FLYING HIGH Inside incredible triple decker SKY WHALE airliner that could carry 755 passengers & is bigger than a Boeing 747

https://www.the-sun.com/tech/6106366/inside-sky-whale-biggest-plane-boeing/

A Second Major Renewal of the American Middle Class Coming? If Democrats can pull it off again, four or five generations after FDR did, it may well signal a second repudiation of Republican trickle-down style economics.

https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/american-middle-class-renewal?utm_source=LA+Progressive+NEW&utm_campaign=707634fef3-LAP+News+-+20+April+17+PC_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_61288e16ef-707634fef3-286987487&mc_cid=707634fef3&mc_eid=dd9216c814

Putting Publicly Funded, Non-Profit, National Health Care on the Ballot: Is it possible that the people of these rural communities, under the stress of a broken health care system, can spark a movement to fix health care for the nation?

https://www.laprogressive.com/healthcare-issues/publicly-funded-non-profit-national-health-care?utm_source=LA+Progressive+NEW&utm_campaign=707634fef3-LAP+News+-+20+April+17+PC_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_61288e16ef-707634fef3-286987487&mc_cid=707634fef3&mc_eid=dd9216c814

Disabled households twice as likely to be struggling with cost of living crisis

https://phys.org/news/2022-09-disabled-households-struggling-crisis.html

State senator emphasizes intent of new Pennsylvania license plate rule

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/state-senator-emphasizes-intent-pennsylvania-155744257.html

Why China Can't make Chips! - Sep 7, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKURE05_RPI

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Facing the Stick of Dynamite in the Ukraine-Russian Conflict - Premiered Sep 8, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K22lgb6ctXU

Dr Anthony Fauci—Communicating Science in a Polarized Era - Sep 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D9ACCy3BB4

WATCH: What is quiet quitting? - Sep 9, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xyr42Sm-CE

Senator Christine M. Tartaglione Labor Report: September 9, 2022

https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100168216.1173.549&gen=1

Train in Vain: Why the government’s workforce training system includes the worst colleges and excludes the best.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/08/28/workforce-training-provider-lists/

Amazon’s Health Care Ambitions: The colossus plans to acquire One Medical and put itself at the center of high-end health care.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/09/08/amazons-health-care-ambitions/

“Players Realize Now: They’re Workers”: Why Baseball Minor Leaguers Voted to Unionize. The surge in U.S. labor organizing now includes minor league baseball players, who are agitating for higher pay and better protections on and off the field.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/minor-league-baseball-mlb-mlba-union-labor

Nonprofit Workers Shouldn’t Be Turned Away Because Unions Are at “Capacity”: It’s time for parent unions to think creatively about new organizing.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/nonprofit-workers-union-labor-nlrb

Can Feminism Survive Class Polarization? In 1999, Barbara Ehrenreich reflected on how the widening of the wealth gap thwarted the original goals of the feminist movement.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/doing-it-for-ourselves

Make Workers’ Rights Constitutional: State Ballot Proposal Offers New Path for Labor: Robert Jenkins left rural Mississippi in the 1940s. He took a union job and worked his way up to crane operator, enabling him to break into the middle class.

https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/make-workers-rights-constitutional

Why Biden Failed to Raise the Federal Minimum Wage: Few things would help women and minority workers more than a $15 minimum wage, simply because women and minorities have more of the jobs that don’t pay well.

https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/raise-the-federal-minimum-wage

New York finds poliovirus samples in 5 counties, sparking state of emergency

https://theweek.com/vaccines/1016554/ny-finds-poliovirus-samples-in-5-counties-sparking-state-of-emergency

How To Help a Loved One Transition Into a Nursing Home

https://katiecouric.com/health/how-to-prepare-someone-for-nursing-home/

A New Drug Could Change the Lives of ALS Patients Around the Country

https://katiecouric.com/health/als-treatment-amx0035-brian-wallach/

Free the Internet: A handful of companies control the web. It doesn’t have to be that way.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167597/free-internet-deprivatize-web

Will Lehman is nominated to run for UAW president

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/07/27/ndny-j27.html

UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman responds to questions from workers

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/09/05/aose-s05.html

“A vote for anyone else is a vote for more inequality in our workplace”: Toledo Jeep supplemental employee backs Will Lehman’s campaign for UAW president

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/09/06/lett-s06.html

The Fed’s Aggressive Rate Hikes Will Hurt Poor Nations Facing Climate Catastrophe: Americans will feel the pain of skyrocketing rates, but so will indebted countries of the global south that are already struggling to withstand global warming–fueled disasters.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167702/feds-rate-hike-hurt-poor-countries-climate-change

Diane Archer: 10 Ways Private Insurers Hurt Medicare - Premiered Sep 12, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do4bFXhIO9s

Will Europe survive? Only nationalisation can stave off disaster

https://unherd.com/2022/07/the-state-has-been-reawakened/

Monkeypox infections are slowing in the US. Will it last?

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/30/monkeypox-infections-are-slowing-in-the-us-will-it-last/

First California monkeypox death confirmed. Is the outbreak getting more dangerous? Death in Los Angeles County patient with weak immunity

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/12/first-california-monkeypox-death-confirmed-is-the-outbreak-getting-more-dangerous/

Why Isn’t Everybody Rich Yet? The twentieth century promised prosperity and leisure for all. What went wrong?

https://newrepublic.com/article/167610/20th-century-economic-inequality-piketty

The Middle Out: THE RISE OF PROGRESSIVE ECONOMICS AND A RETURN TO SHARED PROSPERITY

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671443/the-middle-out-by-michael-tomasky/

Why Economic Populism Remains the Winning Ticket

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/books/review/the-middle-out-michael-tomasky.html

Depression and low serotonin: studies say the chemical imbalance theory is a myth

https://www.sparrow.science/depression-and-low-serotonin-studies-say-the-chemical-imbalance-theory-is-a-myth/

Tesla deceiving public on ‘Full Self-Driving’ and dangerous ‘Autopilot,’ lawsuit claims: Tesla has claimed driver-assistance technologies are steps toward fully autonomous driving, but hasn't come close to that goal, suit claims.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/14/tesla-deceiving-public-on-full-self-driving-and-dangerous-autopilot-lawsuit-claims/

Bezos Was Wrong, and Biden Was Right: Taxing the Wealthy Will Help Tame Inflation. A new report in The Wall Street Journal unintentionally sheds light on what economists, including Lawrence Summers, have long known: Higher taxes reduce spending.

https://newrepublic.com/article/166695/bezos-biden-taxes-rich-tame-inflation

Inflation is slowing down for the wrong reasons: Everything besides gas is getting more expensive

What the latest numbers mean for consumers and the future of inflation.

https://www.grid.news/story/economy/2022/09/13/inflation-is-slowing-down-for-the-wrong-reasons-everything-besides-gas-is-getting-more-expensive/

The Barn Raiser connects local and national perspectives through a network of writers and contributors who live in and care about rural and small town communities.

https://barnraisingmedia.com/

Capitalism Hits Home: System-Driven Loneliness - Premiered Sep 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x87wgz8tz5U

Strike Settled. Now Let’s Nationalize the Railroads. Did you know that railroads are the most profitable industry sector in America? No, that’s not a good thing.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167758/nationalize-railroads-biden-train-strike

Patagonia Won’t Save the World Without Addressing Some of Its Prior Failures: Yvon Chouinard’s decision to transfer ownership of the company to a trust and nonprofit has received glowing reviews. But the details matter. And Patagonia hasn’t always delivered on its promises of sustainability.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167780/patagonia-wont-save-world-without-addressing-prior-failures

Why the Biden Economy Is Better Than You Think (With Brian Deese): Every week is infrastructure week now. (No, really.)

https://newrepublic.com/article/167766/biden-economy-better-think-with-brian-deese

Educational innovation and design-based research

https://www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-cultural-psychology/education

Peter Zeihan || "The Truth Behind The China's Collapse" - Sep 19, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Uf80gy7qI

Why Aren’t Workers at Unions Eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness? While Biden has taken steps to provide student debt cancellation, union workers are excluded from a key relief program—while workers at anti-labor groups like the Heritage Foundation are covered.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/student-debt-relief-biden-pslf-union-labor

Poverty Is a Public Policy Choice: Pandemic safety net programs kept millions out of poverty in 2021. Cutting them will lead to more unnecessary misery.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/poverty-pandemic-child-tax-credit-unemployment-social-security

Independent Unions Are Great—And Proof of Labor's Broken Institutions: The inspiring wave of independent labor organizing also represents the failure of existing unions.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/independent-unions-labor-amazon-trader-joes-apple-geico

A Left Answer to Inflation: It is time to forsake the Chicago school of economics.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/inflation-federal-reserve-policy-recession-class-war

Why the Biden Economy Is Better Than You Think (With Brian Deese): Every week is infrastructure week now. (No, really.)

https://newrepublic.com/article/167766/biden-economy-better-think-with-brian-deese

Single mom opens up about adopting 4 siblings after fostering 56 kids

https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/family/story/single-mom-opens-adopting-siblings-fostering-56-kids-89813757

The 3 Supplements You Might Actually Need After 50: When it comes to vitamins and minerals, multiple pills aren’t necessary

https://www.aarp.org/health/drugs-supplements/info-2021/supplements-after-50.html

It is STARTING! Woman With Severe Chronic Pain Was Denied Medication for Being ‘Childbearing Age’

https://jezebel.com/woman-with-severe-chronic-pain-was-denied-medication-fo-1849569187

Working Families' Paid Leave: Making Paid Family Leave Work. California took the lead on PFL in 2002, but the U.S. is the only high-income nation that does not have a national paid leave program, according to the LAO.

https://www.laprogressive.com/political-issues/working-families-paid-leave

Why Americans Can't Afford Child Care and Workers Can't Afford to Live: Without public support, workers are quitting, and parents and providers are desperate.

https://www.laprogressive.com/political-issues/afford-child-care

Peter Zeihan Warning: Can't Believe What's Happening - The Russian Oil Exports To China - Sep 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA5FKZPEfDA

[It's Getting Really Serious] "You Have No Idea What's Going To Happen!!"- Peter Zeihan's Warning - Sep 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx234JcEgDI

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Beyond Reorganization of Production - Premiered Sep 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqskSm-Z9Gk

Robert Reich's Full Testimony Regarding Corporate Profits and Inflation to House Oversight Committee - Premiered Sep 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkr8aVnXMHo

"You Have No Idea What Is Coming It's Getting Really Serious"- Peter Zeihan - Sep 22, 2022

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

Clicking ‘dislike’ on YouTube probably doesn’t do much to customize your feed: A new report from Mozilla finds that taking actions such as clicking "Not interested" likely doesn't have the outcome you'd want. Here's how they figured that out.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/youtube-dislike-buttons-not-effective/

What to do when you’re trying not to poop: Don’t hold your poop. But if you must, here’s how to go about it.

https://www.popsci.com/diy/how-to-hold-in-poop/

The Grim Secrets of Private Equity: An industry insider’s sympathetic account is unintentionally revealing of private equity’s worst features.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167819/grim-secrets-private-equity-sachin-khajuria-review

[It's Getting Really Serious] "You Have No Idea What's Going To Happen"- Peter Zeihan's Warning - Sep 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnJ5-FK7ZWE

Pennsylvania school district accused of banning Girls Who Code book series: Pen America says Central York school district banned the books but officials strongly deny it in statement

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/26/pennsylvania-book-ban-girls-who-code

Peter Zeihan's Warning "You Have No Idea What Is Coming It's Getting Really Serious" - Sep 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEaW8VEL7tw

The Danger of Republican Extremism Extends to the Economy: Democrats should press the case against the GOP’s radicalism even further.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167872/democrats-economy-message-midterms-2022

New York Dropped Dead, and Some People Loved It: Jeremiah Moss writes of the early days of the pandemic as a glimpse of the city before gentrification.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167864/new-york-dropped-dead-people-loved-jeremiah-moss-feral-city-review

Steven Thrasher on The Viral Underclass: The Nation spoke with Thrasher about who makes up the viral underclass—the subject of his new book—and what we should do to confront the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/qa-steven-thrasher/

Why I’m Joining the Exodus of Teachers Leaving the Classroom: We all have our reasons for not returning. For me, it is the lack of care for teachers’ and students’ health as we face another year of Covid.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/teachers-school-covid/

How to Kill a Rural Hospital: In Gallup, New Mexico, doctors and community members are rallying to save Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/rmch-gallup-rural-hospital/

The Filter: What is life like for content moderators?

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/hanna-bervoets-remove-this-post/

President Biden’s Debt Relief Is Just the First Step: Now that the president has canceled student debt once, he can do it again.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/biden-student-debt-relief-next-step/

It’s Time for Democrats to Stop Undermining Teachers’ Unions: Unions are key to building multi-racial solidarity and fighting divisive far-right politics.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/teachers-unions-democrats/

Virtue and Vice: The many Adam Smiths.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/adam-smith-reconsidered-paul-sagar/

Kamala Harris Tells The Nation, “This Is the Beginning of the Next Era of the Labor Movement”

In an exclusive interview with The Nation’s John Nichols, the vice president recalls her youth on picket lines and explains why it’s so vital to eliminate barriers to organizing.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/kamala-harris-labor-movement/

Why US Workers Are Better Situated to Confront Economic Turbulence: Europe directed more of its Covid aid to businesses, while the US supported workers. If a recession hits now, Europeans could be in even worse trouble.

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/inflation-us-europe/

We Didn’t Vanquish Polio. What Does That Mean for Covid-19? The world is still reeling from the pandemic, but another scourge we thought we’d eliminated has reemerged.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/polio-vaccines-pandemic-covid/

Days of Their Lives: Steve Brodner’s Living & Dying in America. A personal memorial by the renowned cartoonist.

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/steve-brodner-ed-sorel-living-dying-america/

On Our Last Legs: Due to high costs, many Americans have to ration the medicine and medical equipment they rely on.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/rationing-of-medical-equipment-is-costing-disabled-people-their-lives/

The Dollar Is Strong. Sound Good? It Isn’t. A strong dollar is bad for exports. But no one cares because these days our most favored export is … the dollar.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167902/strong-us-dollar-not-good

Conservatives Found Someone Who’s Been Traumatized by Biden’s Student Debt Plan: A rather odd plaintiff—with some convoluted legal arguments—has emerged to sue the administration over its loan forgiveness proposal.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167900/garrison-student-loan-lawsuit-standing

Capitalism Hits Home: Adoring the Monarchy - Premiered Sep 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D2gGRJR0RE

One Year Later, Friends and Family of Kroger Employee Driven to Suicide Want Justice: The tragic suicide of Evan Seyfried has been linked to targeted bullying and harassment by coworkers and management at Kroger—his loved ones are still seeking answers and justice.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/kroger-employee-driven-to-suicide-justice-podcast

Home Depot Workers Have Filed to Form the First Union at the Retail Behemoth: Home Depot workers tried to get the company to address low pay, lack of training and understaffing. No one listened, so they’re unionizing.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/home-depot-workers-union-labor-independent-nlrb

Why Nurses at This LGBTQ-Affirming Healthcare Provider Are Planning to Strike: Workers at Howard Brown Health in Chicago are set to walk out next week after months of stalled negotiations.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/howard-brown-health-strike-union-labor-chicago-lgbtq

The Republicans Are Coming After Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan: Yesterday, the first legal challenge was filed to kill the measure, but the administration is on solid legal ground.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/09/28/the-republicans-are-coming-after-bidens-student-debt-relief-plan/

The Memphis Post-COVID Community College Blues: In the best of times, poor students struggle against long odds to graduate—and these are not the best of times.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/08/28/swtcc-community-college-remedial-courses/

A Beginner’s Breakdown of the Different Types of Breast Cancer

https://katiecouric.com/health/cancer/different-types-of-breast-cancer/

From My World By Katie Couric

https://katiecouric.com/culture/katie-couric-thank-you-interesting-reads/

Here’s How to Help Florida’s Recovery Efforts in the Wake of Hurricane Ian

https://katiecouric.com/news/national-news/hurricane-ian-how-to-help-donate/

The Best of the Breast: Top Doctors Have a Candid Conversation About Cancer

https://katiecouric.com/kcm-event/katie-couric-live-event-breast-cancer-experts/

Busting The Deficit Myth Featuring Dr. Stephanie Kelton - Sep 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwGLMT5S3D8

A Paradigm Shift in Macroeconomic Finance

https://stephaniekelton.com/

Dr. Stephanie Kelton on substack

https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/

Talking MMT (and more) with New Zealand's Climate Minister

https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/talking-mmt-and-more-with-new-zealands

How Does Reproductive Justice Win? In the fight to defend abortion rights, other feminist issues—like sex education, universal childcare, and maternal mortality—fell by the wayside. What will it take to avoid making the same mistake twice?

https://newrepublic.com/article/167399/how-does-reproductive-justice-sex-education-universal-childcare-food-security-win

House passes stopgap funding measure to avoid federal government shutdown

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/30/house-passes-stopgap-funding-measure-to-avoid-federal-government-shutdown.html

If America Doesn’t Embrace “Buy American” Now, this will be the Chinese Century. Returning manufacturing to our nation is the most important step we can take to balance China’s growing influence and power, both economic, military and political

https://hartmannreport.com/p/if-america-doesnt-embrace-buy-american?utm_source=email

U.S. Department of Education Communicates Vision to Advance Digital Equity for All Learners

New resource supports plans under $2.75 billion Digital Equity Act -- funded by Bipartisan Infrastructure Law -- to resolve inequities highlighted during pandemic

https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-communicates-vision-advance-digital-equity-all-learners

Are Schools Banning Books and Not Teaching History? - Premiered Sep 25, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV6Kt_mcrrM

The Truth & Democracy Podcast is a pro-democracy movement in America. We are a national group empowering our country to resist threats to our democracy, which are: authoritarian regimes, would-be dictators, and totalitarianism.

https://www.truthanddemocracycoalition.com/

Jim Hightower: Pro-golfers dirty themselves by "sportswashing"

https://magicvalley.com/opinion/columnists/jim-hightower-pro-golfers-dirty-themselves-by-sportswashing/article_09a18f9c-14fd-11ed-8c5f-57cc6349de77.html

Jim Hightower: How a clerical error made corporations “people”

https://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/664

It’s Time to Crack Down on Excessive CEO Pay: The pay gap between workers and CEOs at America’s largest low-wage employers is now 670 to 1. That’s obscene.

https://www.populist.com/28.15.SAnderson.html

Trade Adjustment Assistance: Bulwark for Workers at Risk

https://www.populist.com/28.15.Conway.html

The Great Migration Failed to Bridge the Racial Wealth Divide. What’s Next? Real and lasting economic opportunities for Black families will come only through a serious national reckoning on race.

https://www.populist.com/28.15.Muhammad.html

The Semiconductor Bill And The Moderna Billionaires

https://talkmarkets.com/content/economics--politics/the-semiconductor-bill-and-the-moderna-billionaires?post=362421

Sonali Kolhatkar: To Reduce Inflation, Control Corporate Profits

https://buzzflash.com/articles/sonali-kolhatkar-to-reduce-inflation-control-corporate-profits

Democrats Are Losing the Working Class, but You Shouldn’t Blame the Left: The reason people are disenchanted is that this economy doesn’t work for them.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-are-losing-the-working-class-but-you-shouldnt-blame-the-left/

Is the GOP Calling Public Schools "Communist" Just Code for Racism? Do Republicans really think public schools are communist? Or is there something else going on here?

https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-the-gop-calling-public-schools

Robert B. Reich: Why the Fed’s decision is dead wrong

https://tribunecontentagency.com/article/robert-b-reich-why-the-feds-decision-is-dead-wrong/

In California, Making Pay Equity and Transparency the Law

https://www.populist.com/28.15.Sandronsky.html

What Would Pangloss Do in This Not-So-Best of All Worlds?

https://www.populist.com/28.15.Retsinas.html

Taken for a ride: Saudi-led OPEC+ snubs Biden with tiny oil increase, despite arms sales, fist bump

https://www.juancole.com/2022/08/taken-increase-despite.html

Biden Gives Anti-Hunger Advocates Reason for Hope: For the first time in 50 years, the White House held a conference to address the nationwide crises of hunger and food insecurity.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167910/mcgovern-hunger-conference-food-insecurity

Jim Hightower: Why should work be life-sucking?

https://magicvalley.com/opinion/columnists/jim-hightower-why-should-work-be-life-sucking/article_97f27f08-19c2-11ed-a299-5bfcbf7f11ec.html

Denying Workers a Voice at Any Cost

https://www.populist.com/28.16.Conway.html

This American For-Profit Healthcare System Would Just as Soon Kill You as Look at You: To this system, it doesn’t matter whether a person lives or dies as long as it gets paid. That’s why our healthcare costs are so high, even though our life expectancy is so low.

https://www.populist.com/28.16.Eskow.html

The Media Loves the “Terrible Economy” Story

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/08/16/the-media-loves-the-terrible-economy-story/

With This Fast-Food Bill, California Could Help All Essential Workers: Gavin Newsom may have a chance to prove his commitment to the working class.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/california-essential-workers-unions/

How to Fight the New GOP Scheme To Kill Social Security & Medicare: Let’s take the first small step rolling back Reagan’s neoliberalism by making “income” from Social Security, unemployment benefits, and tips tax-free once again!

https://hartmannreport.com/p/how-to-fight-the-new-gop-scheme-to

Capitalism Triumphed in the Cold War, but Not by Making People Better Off: In the wake of economic crises, liberal democracies proved most adept at imposing austerity.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167888/capitalism-triumphed-cold-war-broken-promises-fritz-bartel-review

Charons Unite! A Response to Capitalization of the Styx

https://www.populist.com/28.16.Retsinas.html

Who is Responsible for Inflation?

https://www.populist.com/28.16.Uretsky.html

Biden's Inflation Bill Is (Mostly) Good News for People and the Planet

https://ips-dc.org/bidens-inflation-bill-is-mostly-good-news-for-people-and-the-planet

Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: Teachers used to get apples, now they get grief

https://www.nvdaily.com/nvdaily/bonnie-jean-feldkamp-teachers-used-to-get-apples-now-they-get-grief/article_b2a205f1-6d12-5caa-bfb4-b208a0c804c8.html

Who Pays for Higher Ed?

https://www.populist.com/28.17.Edit.html

Confused By Workers Quitting?

https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/09/22/confused-by-workers-quitting

Work, Sweat, Die: The Price of Really Hot Jobs

https://hightowerlowdown.org/podcast/work-sweat-die-the-price-of-really-hot-jobs-2/

Jim Hightower: A tear-jerker about the housing saga of some rich jerks

https://magicvalley.com/opinion/columnists/jim-hightower-a-tear-jerker-about-the-housing-saga-of-some-rich-jerks/article_f985f916-24bc-11ed-ad79-3312d4c06e08.html

An Ear, a Hand and a Voice: Ninety Days on the Job

https://www.populist.com/28.17.Rollins.html

Rethinking College

https://www.populist.com/28.17.McMillen.html

All hats, no cattle and little chance: Alan Guebert

https://www.farmforum.net/story/news/columnists/2022/08/24/all-hats-no-cattle-and-little-chance-alan-guebert/7885033001/

Biden’s Student Debt Relief is a Big Deal: I borrowed modestly, worked on campus, and still had to skip meals to make loan payments — and I was one of the lucky ones.

https://www.populist.com/28.17.Alperstein.html

Student Debt Is Evil and A Crime Against Our Nation: Since the Reagan Revolution, student debt has crippled three generations of young Americans, totaling a $1.8 trillion drag on our economy that benefits nobody except Republican-supporting banksters

https://www.populist.com/28.17.Hartmann.html

Making Worker Power A Constitutional Right

https://www.populist.com/28.17.Conway.html

Pay Attention to What’s Not Said at the Fed

https://www.populist.com/28.17.Anderson.html

How to Decimate the Corporate Tax-Avoidance Industry

https://cepr.net/how-to-decimate-the-corporate-tax-avoidance-industry/

UPS Risks Major Strike: Refuses to Prioritize Driver’s Safety

https://socialistproject.ca/2022/09/ups-risks-major-strike/

Behind the ‘Economic Policy’ Façade, It’s Class War

https://www.rdwolff.com/behind_the_economic_policy_facade_it_s_class_war

Medicare ‘Advantage’ Scams Trick Seniors

https://www.populist.com/28.17.Retsinas.html

Want More Teachers? Start Valuing Education. Too many lawmakers are happy to dole out subsidies for the rich and corporations while resisting pay increases for educators.

https://www.populist.com/28.17.DeVaan.html

California’s Tough New Fast Food Wage Law Is Exactly What Business Deserves: The private-sector solution—unionization—is usually preferable to regulation. But the business lobby hates unions more than big government.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167934/fast-recovery-act-wage-law

Elon Musk agrees to $44B acquisition of Twitter in hopes of averting trial

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3673893-elon-musk-agrees-to-44b-acquisition-of-twitter-in-hopes-of-averting-trial/

False Choices and Familiar Stories in a California Homeless Encampment: How do you tell the story of the biggest crisis on the West Coast when every typical journalistic avenue seems to have run its course?

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/false-choices-and-familiar-stories-in-a-california-homeless-encampment

Transforming the Public Health Economy to Accelerate Health Equity - An Emerging Transdiscipline

https://www.publichealthliberation.com/

The Poor People’s Campaign: A Public Health and Social Justice Movement

https://www.publichealthliberation.com/ppc

Over the past few years, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has connected with communities across this nation to learn from the struggles being waged. https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/about/our-demands/

Why we're all slaves to BILLIONAIRES now... - Oct 5, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LeF94TcpgM

You Won’t Believe How Crazy CEO Pay Has Gotten Now.Tired: CEO pay is rising faster than share price. Wired: CEO pay is rising faster than the entire stock market.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167971/ceo-pay-excesses-income-inequality

Twitter Will Be an Albatross Around Elon Musk’s Neck: It’s not clear whether the billionaire mogul wants the company to flourish financially or just become subservient to his whims—but it can’t do both.

https://newrepublic.com/article/167977/elon-musk-regret-buying-twitter

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Marx’s Historical Materialism - Oct 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeibJ0S5IrM

If this doesn't wake you up nothing will... - Oct 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E8j80sDG8A

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Hundreds of janitors strike at Facebook campuses across Bay Area amid impending layoffs: San Francisco, Silicon Valley custodial workers say they don’t want to work “grueling shifts,” jeopardizing their health and well being, when layoffs happen

https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/07/hundreds-of-janitors-strike-at-facebook-campuses-across-bay-area-amid-impending-layoffs/

Unemployment rate falls to 3.5% in September, payrolls rise by 263,000 as job market stays strong

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/07/jobs-report-september-2022.html

Labor Report from State Senator Christine M. Tartaglione – October 7, 2022

https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100168324.780.184&gen=1

Federal judge says DeJoy changes to postal service before 2020 election harmed delivery

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3678315-federal-judge-says-dejoy-changes-to-postal-service-before-2020-election-harmed-delivery/