Housing Justice
Advocates Sue Missouri Over Harmful Homelessness Law
https://www.citizen.org/news/housing-justice-advocates-sue-missouri-over-harmful-homelessness-law/
Monkeypox Vaccine
Shortage
https://www.citizen.org/article/monkeypox-vaccine-shortage/
Truth Social’s
Censorship, Terms of Service Defy Free Speech Promises
https://www.citizen.org/news/truth-socials-censorship-terms-of-service-defy-free-speech-promises/
Nursing Homes
Often Do Not Report Private Equity Firms Among Their Owners
Global
Manufacturers Can Ramp Up Low-Cost Monkeypox Vaccine Production, Public Citizen
Report Finds
FDA Must Promptly
Withdraw Approval of Medication for Prevention of Preterm Birth
Three Cities Pass
Medicare for All Resolutions in Past Week
https://www.citizen.org/news/three-cities-pass-medicare-for-all-resolutions-in-past-week/
Rampant Banker
Misconduct in the Absence of Dodd-Frank’s Executive Pay Rule
Homeopathy on
Trial: CFI Suits Against Walmart and CVS on Consumer Fraud Allowed to Proceed
There’s Still One Big Trick for Getting Into an Elite
College
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/01/opinion/school-private-college.html
China lashes out at latest U.S. export controls on chips
https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-china-global-trade-47eed4a9fa1c2f51027ed12cf929ff55
Capitalist Power Shifts: From Britain, to USA, to China -
Global Capitalism with Richard Wolff - Oct 9, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhU-e59tcY
Economic Update: The Economics of Colonialism Pt. 1 - The
British Empire - Premiered Oct 11, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXR9neg9jpM
Ask Prof Wolff: IRAs & Risky Investments - Oct 12,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLiOukmKC8c
Ask Prof Wolff: The Landlord Problem - Oct 14, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5JmeyiacQQ
Economic Update: The Economics of Colonialism Pt. 2 - The
Neo-colonialism Variation - Premiered Oct 17, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dSKFf24UtA
Ask Prof Wolff: Democratic Divisions of Labor - Oct 19,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ7_K55PB0w
Ask Prof Wolff: Economics Nobel Prize - Ben Bernanke -
Oct 21, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKgYY0XRzZA
Could Russia Destroy US Economy? Featuring Richard Wolff
- Oct 21, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpJnRrL0-uw
Economic Update: Means TV - An Anti Capitalist Netflix -
Oct 24, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm7nHQbC4T0
All Things Co-op: Tech Cooperatives and Software
Engineering with Politics Rewired - Oct 25, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8hX4kXNoRk
Ask Prof Wolff: Gandhi, Ambedkar, and India's Freedom
Movement - Oct 26, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBQUiOHanG8
Is Fed Chair Driving Workers Into Poverty? Featuring
Richard Wolff - Oct 26, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tyfIJBnzYU
Ask Prof Wolff LIVE, October 2022 - Full Event Recording
- Oct 27, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smMMDK0T-zo
Ask Prof Wolff: Overdetermination - Freud & Marxist
Philosophy - Oct 28, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP8HiyC3LuY
Economic Update: Ana Kasparian on Today's US Crisis – Oct
31, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bu9dal2rcU
Richard Wolff Interview: Biden Should Copy Nixon and
PUNISH Corporate Price Gougers – Nov 4, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYYJltH5Lw
Ask Prof Wolff: Hitler’s Nazi Party & Democratic
Elections – Nov 4, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go7Bxh_PrCA
Economic Update: Capitalism vs Socialism is NOT Markets
vs Planning – Nov 7, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-jCqjM4Kmc
Ask Prof Wolff: Fed Reserve Blames Inflation on Workers –
Nov 9, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSrOG0YhnL8
Ask Prof Wolff: MAGA Communism – Nov 11, 2022 12 hrs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcqvZ81HPag
Global Capitalism: After the Elections: Now What? – Nov
13, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_sktsqk9v8
Economic Update: Nomi Prins on the Distorted US Financial
System – Nov 14, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii3TEen_LP4
Prof. Richard Wolff: Cutting the Crap About Crypto – Nov
17, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi9YICRSHqo
Ask Prof Wolff: Expanding Economics Curricula – Nov 18,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDJNv75HDds
Economic Update: The Terminal Crises of Global Capitalism
– Nov 21, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXNhS0bMv9I
All Things Co-op: Just Work for All with Joshua Preiss –
Nov 22, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqaCZWrWWoA
Will Housing Prices Collapse? Featuring Richard Wolff –
Nov 23, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3teandCSFI0
Ask Prof Wolff LIVE: We've Heard of Inflation, But What's
Deflation? – Nov 25, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CWj_Cs0B78
Using Marxism to Understand the Ukraine War - Richard
Wolff & David Harvey – Nov 26, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEZP_RzT2Dk
Economic Update: Persuasion vs. Polarization – Nov 28,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44GDgXjvmts
Ask Prof Wolff LIVE: Understanding Fascism – Dec 2, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeZqKO728zo
Inflation, Europe's energy crisis, and the Fed with
Richard Wolff | The Chris Hedges Report – Dec 2, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I43uC1mfHKc
Richard Wolff | How THE RICH Stole Democracy – Dec 2,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qyeHy84GXk
Economic Update: Instability - Capitalism's Constant –
Dec 5, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcBRuWVaAtM
All Things Co-op: Cooperative Socialism with Ben Burgis –
Dec 6, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=138t3XYJ_p0
Ask Prof Wolff LIVE: The Role of the State – Dec 9, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmQ9XRm_C74
Economic Update: Inflation and Labor Shortage – Dec 12,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AbWBYxhutk
Conventional economists hate contradictions - Richard
Wolff & David Harvey – Dec 18, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JllV04jm0tY
Economic Update: What "Capitalism's Decline"
Means (Repeat) – Dec 19, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS-eCnCneyA
Capitalism Drives Global Economic Instability: Economies
around the world were shocked and damaged over the course of 2022.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/capitalism-drives-global-economic-instability
All Things Co-op: NYC's Christmas Tree Cooperative – Dec
20, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMRySh6HBRE
What’s a Pig Butchering Scam? Here’s How to Avoid Falling
Victim to One. Thousands have lost huge
sums after being lured into fraudulent online investment schemes by seemingly
attractive strangers who strike up online conversations with them. Here’s a
guide to spotting the telltale signs.
Democrats Seethe After OPEC Decision to Cut Oil Output:
Some lawmakers are coming to the conclusion that America’s long-standing partnership
with Saudi Arabia might not be worth the pain.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168015/democrats-seethe-opec-oil-cut
The Shame of Modern Corporate Management
https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/09/22/the-shame-of-modern-corporate-management
Drought, War, Inflation and Consumer Disconnect
https://www.populist.com/28.18.Guebert.html
Opportunity Shouldn’t Be About Luck: Cities and states
are experimenting with “baby bonds” to narrow America’s yawning opportunity
divide.
https://www.populist.com/28.18.Karpen.html
Newcomers Will Show Us the American Way
https://www.populist.com/28.18.Young.html
Hey, If the Government Pays for the Research, It Doesn’t
Have to Grant Patent Monopolies
A Global Recession Induced by Central Bankers: Today on
TAP: Tight money spreads from Washington to Frankfurt to the Global South,
needlessly increasing hardship.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/global-recession-induced-by-central-bankers/
Here’s what you need to know about this week’s Social
Security COLA hike: The increase is expected to be the largest in 40 years, and
could offer a financial boost to roughly 70 million beneficiaries.
Why defunding IRS auditors won’t be easy GOP promise to
keep
"China Is Doomed If Russia Loses! China Don't Want
Russia To Lose This War"- Peter Zeihan - Oct 9, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJAjY5wNgeI
"The Epic Collapse Of China Will Stun The Whole
World! & This Will Happen In Few Days"- Peter Zeihan - Oct 10, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-y9wiiRWTk
The truth behind “self-made” billionaires: Billionaires
are not made by rugged individuals. They’re made by policy failures. And a
system that rewards wealth over work.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2022/09/27/the-truth-behind-self-made-billionaires/
A New Misery Index: Meeting the People We are Making
Miserable
https://www.populist.com/28.18.Retsinas.html
My Family and Kaiser Permanente
https://www.populist.com/28.18.Sandronsky.html
In the Good Old Summers Time
https://www.populist.com/28.18.OLeary.html
Close the Medicaid Coverage Gap: Over 2 million Americans
like me are stuck without health care because 12 GOP-ruled states keep refusing
to expand Medicaid.
https://www.populist.com/28.18.Cook.html
Who is Raising Our Children? Liberating Tweens From
Corporate Tentacles
https://nader.org/2022/09/17/who-is-raising-our-children-liberating-tweens-from-corporate-tentacles/
Aiding Temps and All Workers
https://www.populist.com/28.18.Kalet.html
Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: What cannot be duplicated in a
digital space
A Hotline Garment Workers Can Call When They Face
Harassment on the Job: When women who sew clothes for famous brands are
harassed, there is a new place for them to turn.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/lesotho-women-workers-labor-unions-hotline
Starbucks Holds Life-Saving Benefits Over Trans Workers'
Heads. Managers are wielding a new
weapon against unions: gender-affirming healthcare
https://inthesetimes.com/article/starbucks-union-campaign-trans-health-care
CEO pay up 17% as profits, stocks soar; workers fall
behind
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/05/26/economy-ceo-worker-pay-corporate-profit/9941206002/
Most Americans agree that unions get better wages and
working conditions for workers
The Fresh Hell of Depending on Your Employer for Abortion
Access: Some companies say they will cover abortion travel. Here’s what’s wrong
with relying on their benevolence.
Why People Say There's a "Nonprofit Industrial
Complex": Rather than building mass movements, talented organizers get
funneled into staff and admin jobs just to keep the charity running.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/non-profit-corporate-influence-tax-evasion-tax-the-rich
Inside Lockheed Martin’s Sweeping Recruitment on College
Campuses: The engineering degree to defense industry pipeline.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/lockheed-martin-recruiting-military-industrial-complex-student-debt
Corporate Stooges in Blue Collar Clothing: Tensions
between right-wing populists and free-marketers have been bubbling up since the
1970s. Will the populists of today exploit this to their political advantage?
Nobel Prize in economics awarded to trio including Ben
Bernanke for work on financial crises
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/10/economy/nobel-prize-economics-winner-2022/index.html
Stanford scientists grow human brain cells in rats — and
get them to do things: Cross-species experiment offers hope for devastating
brain diseases
How a Stanford chemist nabbed the Nobel
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/05/how-a-stanford-chemist-nabbed-the-nobel/
This Bay Area physicist and pioneer in quantum physics
just won a Nobel Prize
Swede who unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA wins Nobel
Prize in medicine
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/10/03/nobel-win-for-swede-who-unlocked-secrets-of-neanderthal-dna/
Two Sixties’ Radicals Recall Fighting Times in U.S. Labor:
Both Emspak and Melrod have penned candid, illuminating accounts of their past
union and political activism, which will be very useful to younger radicals
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/sixties-radicals-recall-fighting-times-in-u-s-labor
S&P 500 closes lower, notching six days of losses
ahead of key inflation report
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/11/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html
Federal Officials Trade Stock in Companies Their Agencies
Oversee: Hidden records show thousands of senior executive branch employees
owned shares of companies whose fates were directly affected by their
employers’ actions, a Wall Street Journal investigation found
Federal gig worker proposal tanks Uber, Lyft and DoorDash
stocks
https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/11/uber-lyft-doordash-stock-tank-gig-worker-rules/
Social Security Administration announces 8.7 percent COLA
hike, largest in 40 years: Starting in 2023, retirees on Social Security may
see an average increase of $144 in each monthly check.
Biden to Gig Economy: Stop Stealing Wages. The Labor Department’s new rule will reverse
a Trump-era edict and allow more workers to be classified as employees, not
independent contractors. Pay up, Uber.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168120/biden-gig-economy-rule-wage-theft
All Things Co-op: Union Co-ops - An Interview with Worx
Printing - Oct 11, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHAeY9QFFi0
Capitalism Hits Home: Individualism is a Capitalist
Deception - Premiered Oct 12, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vur1Yvj7WGo&t=211s
Why Is Trickle-Down Economics Still a Thing? What’s bizarre about this latest episode of
trickle-down economics is that this gonzo economic theory continues to live on,
notwithstanding its repeated failures.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/trickle-down-economics-still-a-thing
Retail sales flat in September as inflation takes a bite
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-business/ap-retail-sales-flat-in-september-with-inflation-hot/
The Industry Devouring the American Dream: Private
equity’s tentacles reach nearly every aspect of our lives, and it’s making
everything worse.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168144/private-equity-devouring-american-dream
Pannonia Federal Credit Union has merged with American
Heritage Federal Credit Union. Information below is for archival purposes only
and not current.
https://www.creditunionsonline.com/credit-union-7622.html
Chaucer Was Cleared of Rape, but What He May Have Done
Instead Remains Illegal Today: They can’t prosecute you for hiring away
somebody else’s employee, but it’s a breach of contract for the employee if she
violates a noncompete clause.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168172/chaucer-rape-servant-noncompete-illegal
Cities After…Office Spaces as Homes - Pt. 2: Hybrid Work
and Work From Home - Oct 18, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5jtF4IbdoM
Democrats May Have Made the Wrong Bet on Inflation: The
party rode a little bit of midterm luck to get back in the running, but it
might have waited too long to make its case on the economy.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168187/democrats-midterms-2022-inflation-economy
How Can We Fix Inflation? With Economist Steve Hanke |
The Problem With Jon Stewart Podcast - Oct 19, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4MahOuEdVw
USDA announces $1 billion in debt relief for 36,000
farmers
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/usda-announces-1-billion-in-debt-relief-for-36000-farmers
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Metabolic vs. Independent
Relations - Oct 20, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9yHe6Oz7EQ
Peter Zeihan Says Chinese Military Will Rot Without This
Tech, Soon Its Neighbors Will Pounce Over - Oct 20, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knbF4XbCqZ4
Labor Report from State Senator
Christine M. Tartaglione, October 21, 2022
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100168360.1300.13&gen=1
Supreme Court delivers one of two legal wins for Biden’s
student loan forgiveness plan
Rep. Katie Porter EXPOSES How Corporate Greed Is “Biggest
Driver Of Inflation” | Roland Martin - Premiered Oct 21, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkqCk7E4uRs
The Fifth Circuit Just Defunded the (Consumer Protection)
Police: It’s good news for financial predators as a trio of Trump-appointed
judges tees up a chance for the Supreme Court to take the CFPB’s cops off the
beat.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168247/supreme-court-consumer-protection-bureau
Bernie Sanders: 'Republicans
blame Biden for inflation ... really?' - Oct 23, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSYFUJTXo3U
Dean Baker on Inflation Myths -
Premiered Oct 23, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-ZUK0rnOiw
Privacy warning: What Gmail,
Yahoo and Outlook get for providing you a free email account
Health Care Innovations: The Next Big Breakthrough
https://thehill.com/events/3676750-health-care-innovations/
CNN anchor asks Saudi ambassador if the kingdom is siding
with Russia. Hear her response - Oct 25, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb0AgzZ-rRE
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
The State of American Education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECnPZd4k61U&t=938s
2022 Mathematics and Reading Report Cards at Grades 4 and
8
Compared to 2019 (before the pandemic):
Average scores declined in both subjects and grades.
Average scores declined for most states in both subjects
and grades.
Students' confidence in their mathematics and reading
skills declined.
https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/?ref=Tangle-newsletter
Reading and math test scores fell across US during the
pandemic. How did your state fare?
ACT test scores drop to lowest in 30 years in pandemic
slide
Why Schools Need More Teachers of Color—for White
Students: Nonwhite educators can offer new and valuable perspectives for
children of all backgrounds.
Study: Student gains last year narrowed COVID learning
gap
‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable’: How Insurers Exploited
Medicare for Billions. By next year,
half of Medicare beneficiaries will have a private Medicare Advantage plan.
Most large insurers in the program have been accused in court of fraud.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/upshot/medicare-advantage-fraud-allegations.html
The New Medicare Advantage Plot Exposed Featuring Alex
Lawson - Oct 25, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvRPbIcDTEw
11 Money-Sucking Lies Your Brain Tells You About Salary
Negotiation
Behind the surge in workers with disabilities: long COVID
https://www.axios.com/2022/10/26/disabled-workers-long-covid-work-from-home?ref=Tangle-newsletter
People-Side Economics: Fighting Inflation As If Workers’
Lives Matter
People-Side Economics: Steps to Tax Justice and a Green
Economy
https://convergencemag.com/articles/people-side-economics-steps-to-tax-justice-and-a-green-economy/
People-Side Economics: Better Ways to Cut Inflation
https://convergencemag.com/articles/people-side-economics-better-ways-to-cut-inflation/
SSI Recipients Are Getting Their First COLA Increase in
December. Here's Why. Those who receive
Supplemental Security Income will get their COLA pay increase before 2023.
We'll explain.
Washington’s Candy Barons Are a Bunch of Corporate
Ghouls: The most powerful dynasty in the nation’s capital isn’t the Kennedys,
or the Bushes, or the Clintons. It’s the Mars family.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168298/mars-mm-candy-barons-corporate-ghouls
US growth rebounds in third quarter, but shows warnings
signs
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3707513-us-economy-grew-at-2-6-percent-rate-in-third-quarter/
US 30-Year Fixed Mortgage Rate Tops 7%, Hits Highest
Since 2001. MBA’s gauge of applications
falls again to lowest since 1997. Higher
borrowing costs have stifled demand for homes this year.
Liz Theoharis, The Poverty of
the Political Mind
https://tomdispatch.com/the-quality-or-inequality-of-life/
Musk officially closes Twitter deal: reports
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3708424-musk-officially-closes-twitter-deal-reports/
Musk moves quickly to remodel Twitter
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3709902-musk-moves-quickly-to-remodel-twitter/
Elon Musk reportedly ordered company-wide layoffs at
Twitter
Ukraine Is Showing the World How Small Farmers Can Fix
Our Broken Food System: Global hunger is rising amid war, inflation, and a
pandemic—but it’s not because of a lack of food.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168304/food-supply-pandemic-war-ukraine-covid-farming
Warning Signs of Pancreatic Cancer and Advances in
Treatment: Survival rates have risen and there are new treatments, but early
diagnosis is key
Which states tax Social Security benefits?
Capitalism Hits Home: Family - A Feminist, Class Analysis
- Oct 27, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5jbAYLWij4
Who Keeps Up with Inflation? Don’t grow too complacent about Social
Security. Republicans and much of corporate America would like to do away with
it.
https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/who-keeps-up-with-inflation
This Week on Health Care Equity - October 28, 2022
https://www.protectourcare.org/this-week-on-health-care-equity/
Biden predicts student loan forgiveness checks will go
out within two weeks
Labor Report from State Senator Christine M. Tartaglione,
October 28, 2022
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100168380.1420.603&gen=1
Poliovirus found in NY wastewater genetically linked to
case that paralyzed New York man
Childcare Is in Chaos. Private Equity and For-Profit
Chains Are Swooping In. As the industry
consolidates, it runs the risk of putting profits ahead of kids—and setting
back the movement for universal childcare.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168322/child-care-daycare-private-equity-for-profit
May God Save Us From Economists: Over the last
half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where
it has no business intruding. It can be a useful tool for policymaking, but
it’s become the only tool. It’s time for economics to back the hell off.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168049/tyranny-economists-government
The Rising Dollar is Hurting Other Currencies. Central
Banks Are Stepping In. The Federal
Reserve’s interest rate hikes are unsettling global markets and prompting other
central banks to prop up their domestic currencies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/business/strong-dollar-global-economy.html
Flu and RSV hybrid virus studied in a lab for the first
time: Amid a 'triple-demic,' scientists investigate two of the viruses
interactions and co-infections.
https://www.popsci.com/health/flu-rsv-hybrid-virus/
Is it flu or RSV? It can be tough to tell. Both respiratory pathogens are circulating,
but one affects children more commonly.
https://www.popsci.com/health/rsv-flu-symptoms-difference/
‘We are not trying to scare you.’ In California, fentanyl
now behind 1 out every 5 youth deaths.
Fentanyl overdoses are leaving their toll not only in tragically
familiar places like San Francisco’s gritty Tenderloin district but also inside
teenagers’ bedrooms in some of the Bay A…
US Blockades China's Semiconductor Market - Oct 29, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQnzTLRiiA4
Here’s why the Fed’s next big rate hike may be its last
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3712963-heres-why-the-feds-next-big-rate-hike-may-be-its-last/
Watch live: Jerome Powell discusses expected rate
increase
https://thehill.com/homenews/3715414-watch-live-jerome-powell-holds-briefing-following-fed-meetings/
THE DIRTY DIVIDE “Teaser/Trailer”
2020. Shot on location in Skid
Row, Downtown Los Angeles. An unflinching exploration of the tragic results of
structural racism, de-industrialization, the failed war on drugs, and poverty,
in the what has been called the “meanest city in America”. While homelessness
has exploded in Los Angeles—Skid Row is the largest concentration of homeless
in the hemisphere—brilliance and resilience are in full display in this new
documentary.
http://www.paulfreedman.net/the-dirty-divide
Protecting the
Profiteer: Corporations and Trade Groups Opposing Anti-Price Gouging and
Profiteering Bills Blanketed Capitol Hill With Nine Times More Lobbying Power
than the Bills' Supporters
https://www.citizen.org/article/protecting-the-profiteer/
We Can’t Fix
Youth Homelessness Without Better Services: To achieve stable housing and
economic security, young people need comprehensive, career-building support,
not just a minimum wage job.
https://progressive.org/op-eds/we-cant-fix-youth-homelessness-better-services-perry-white-221115/
Corporate Greed
Is Causing Inflation But The Rich Blame Workers? – Nov 16, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ftyB_UHNVc
Ask Prof Wolff:
Global South - Breaking the Cycle of Foreign Debt – Nov 16, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGG-AFlUwqU
The Only Way the
U.S. Can Win the Tech War with China
Anti-Capitalist
Chronicles: Religion's Impact on Politics – Nov 17, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFPcDpkSyiw
Labor Without
Love: How have automation and deindustrialization changed our relationship to
work?
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/sarah-jaffe-aaron-benanav-automation-work/
The Federal
Reserve Attacks American Workers: Notes from Inflation Economics 101.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/inflation-federal-reserve-wages-working-class/
Banning Books Is
a Threat to Public Education: To say nothing of the fact that we don’t value
reading enough in the first place!
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/banned-books-libraries-crt/
We Should Be
Fighting for a World Without Adoption: If poverty, racism, and health care
inequities were properly redressed, adoption would be a last resort.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/adoption-parenting-choice/
Out of Sight: Poet
and critic Meghan O’Rourke charts her struggle with chronic illness.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/meghan-orourke-invisible-kingdom/
The World’s
Biggest Trial of a Four-Day Workweek Shows: It Works. A shorter week allows workers to better take
care of themselves without sacrificing productivity.
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/four-day-work-week/
Meet the
California State Senator Who Wants to Decriminalize Psychedelics: Can Scott
Wiener convince the state that his bill will reduce the “sheer misery” drug use
is causing now?
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/scott-wiener-california-psychedelics/
Letters From the
November 14/21, 2022, Issue: The real labor revival… The platform is the
message…
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/letters-from-the-november-14-21-2022-issue/
Youth voters in
near lock-step support of legalizing marijuana
Single Mothers in
Economic Pain: Where Are the Dads?
https://www.creators.com/read/froma-harrop/09/22/single-mothers-in-economic-pain-where-are-the-dads
Well-fed farmers
find biting hand that feeds them tastes so good
https://www.stormlake.com/articles/well-fed-farmers-find-biting-hand-that-feeds-them-tastes-so-good/
When Free Markets
Hit the Frying Pan, Consumers Often Get Burned
Will Powell, MBS,
and Putin Throw the Entire World Into a Depression?
Author Archive:
Tom Conway. Tom Conway is the
international president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW).
https://independentmediainstitute.org/imi-articles/?author=Tom+Conway
When Red States
Are Dying for Federal Aid
https://www.creators.com/read/joe-conason/09/22/when-red-states-are-dying-for-federal-aid
NYT Spreads Myths
on Inflation
https://cepr.net/nyt-spreads-myths-on-inflation/
The Cost of
Biden’s Student Debt Cancellation. Today
on TAP: At $15 billion a year, it’s a good deal for students and for the
economy, but it only begins reform of how we pay for higher education.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/cost-of-bidens-student-debt-cancellation/
Tech Billionaires
are Actually Dumber Than You Think
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/10/04/tech-billionaires-are-actually-dumber-than-you-think/
The three myths
used by the ultra-wealthy to justify the ultra-wealthy: (Sorry you're so
sensitive, Elon)
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-three-myths-used-by-the-ultra#details
Why Business
Wants a Recession
https://rall.com/2022/09/27/why-business-wants-a-recession
Hiking public
lands shouldn’t require a ladder
https://www.parkrecord.com/opinion/hiking-public-lands-shouldnt-require-a-ladder/
REVIVE THE CHILD
TAX CREDIT. OUR CHILDREN DESERVE NOTHING LESS.
Those monthly payments made the American Dream possible for millions of
families, including mine.
https://otherwords.org/revive-the-child-tax-credit-our-children-deserve-nothing-less/
How Remote Work
Expanded My Professional Options With Chronic Illness
Raising Steady
Kids in Unsteady Times
https://www.populist.com/28.20.Rollins.html
Inflation
Reduction Act Contains Much for Rural Areas to Celebrate
https://www.populist.com/28.20.McMillen.html
Dispatches: TO
KEEP WATER IN THE RIVERS, BIDEN’S PLAN IS CAPITALISM; MAR-A-LAGO DOCUMENTS HELD
SECRETS ABOUT IRANIAN MISSILES AND INTEL OPERATIONS IN CHINA; BIDEN GOES DARK
BRANDON ON MAGA REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY AROUND STUDENT DEBT; ABBOTT BLAMES BETO
FOR BAIL BOND GONE BAD; JUDGE WHO RULED AGAINST CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION
BUREAU TOOK WALL STREET CASH: WATCHDOG; JUDGE’S RULING TAKES TRUMP ONE STEP
CLOSER TO INDICTMENT ON CONSPIRACY CHARGE; NEW REPORT VINDICATES CRITICS OF
2015 REPEAL OF US OIL AND GAS EXPORT BAN;
https://www.populist.com/28.20.Dispatches.html
Ag Policy Was
About Cultural Stability, Not Endless Market Growth
https://www.populist.com/28.20.Guebert.html
Industrial
Policy: Now Comes the Hard Part.
Enacting large-scale bipartisan legislation was a minor miracle. It will
take an even bigger miracle to spend all that money effectively.
https://www.populist.com/28.20.Kuttner.html
Bringing Workers’
Sensibility to Local Government
https://www.populist.com/28.20.Conway.html
Whoever Said
Republicans Fight Inflation Better Than Democrats?
https://www.populist.com/28.20.Geyman.html
Republican
‘Solutions’ Will Make Inflation Worse: If cutting corporate tax rates and
making billionaires wealthier actually fixed inflation, it would have ebeen
fixed ages ago.
https://www.populist.com/28.20.Certo.html
Mary Sanchez: GOP
to student loan debtors — ‘Not on our watch’
https://tribunecontentagency.com/article/mary-sanchez-gop-to-student-loan-debtors-not-on-our-watch/
Inflation,
Inflation, Inflation and Social Security
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/10/19/inflation-inflation-inflation-and-social-security/
What Social
Security Should Really Be Paying to Survive in This Economy: With more debt
ceiling fights baked in, and the Republicans regularly using them to have a go
at cutting Social Security benefits, it’s important to push back hard against
the gutting of this and other social safety nets.
https://www.populist.com/28.20.Kolhatkar.html
Why the Economy
Is the Dominant Issue for Democrats In the Midterms
JESSE JACKSON:
Oppose Kroger and Albertsons Merger
https://www.washingtoninformer.com/jesse-jackson-oppose-kroger-and-albertsons-merger/
Raise Corporate
Taxes, Not Interest Rates: To protect working families, policymakers should
directly address the problem of corporate price gouging.
https://www.populist.com/28.20.Baron.html
To Entitle or Not
to Entitle: A Hamlet Moment for Medicaid
https://www.populist.com/28.20.Retsinas.html
Would-Be Elites
Could Use a Break
https://www.populist.com/28.20.Uretsky.html
Millions Set to
Lose Medicaid, Food Benefits Once Public Health Emergency Ends: “When the
public health emergency ends, many individuals and families will experience the
cumulative impact of losing access to both Medicaid and SNAP,” advocates
warned.
https://www.populist.com/28.20.Johnson.html
The Bifurcated
Economy
https://www.populist.com/28.20.OLeary.html
International
Bankers Operate on a Level of Their Own
https://www.populist.com/28.20.Anderson.html
When No Home is
Affordable, Where Do You Live?
https://www.populist.com/28.20.Marston.html
Medicare for All,
a Timely Prescription
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/10/20/medicare_for_all_a_timely_prescription
Intelligentsia
Workers Vote to Unionize, Fueling the Fire of Coffee Industry Organizing. Workers at the coffee chain have joined
fellow baristas at Starbucks and Colectivo in unionizing their workplaces.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/intelligentsia-union-labor-coffee-chicago-starbucks-colectivo
Monkeypox Is a
Workers' Rights Issue: The outbreak of monkeypox shows that workers need
protections like paid leave and just cause to help protect public health.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/monkeypox-union-labor-lgbtq-paid-leave-cdc-isolation
Black Women Will
Face the Brunt of Abortion Bans. The Solution Is Universal Healthcare. Those who claim to be “pro-life” should also
advocate for a healthcare system that guarantees support for Black mothers and
babies most at-risk due to the overturning of Roe.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/black-women-abortion-ban-roe-louisiana-universal-healthcare
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
In 40 Years of
Labor Reporting, David Moberg Never Gave Up on the Working Class: As a staff
writer for In These Times from its birth in 1976, Moberg secured a unique
position for himself in the small band of the nation’s labor writers.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/40-year-labor-reporter-david-moberg-obit
Fighting the
Bosses: 40 Years of In These Times.
Without a strong labor movement, there is little hope for socialism—let
alone a more humane capitalism.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/fighting-the-bosses
Frustrated With
#GirlBoss Feminism? Look to Eastern European History. In Red Valkyries Kristen Ghodsee interrogates
the false promise of liberal feminism.
FDA approves
first drug that can delay onset of type 1 diabetes: The series of shots is for
patients with stage 2 of type 1 diabetes, and may not work for all recipients.
https://www.popsci.com/health/fda-diabetes-tzield/
Are Paralegals
the Key to Affordable Legal Advice? Our
civil legal system is stacked against poor and middle-class people. Has Utah
figured out the solution?
https://newrepublic.com/article/168960/paralegals-affordable-legal-advice-utah
Biden Extends
Pause on Student Loan Payments: The moratorium on student loan payments will be
extended to June 30, 2023, as courts consider legal challenges to Biden’s debt
relief plan.
https://newrepublic.com/post/169111/biden-extends-pause-student-loan-payments
Policies vs.
Ideologies - All Things Co-op – Nov 23, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6uOug4Ymew
Was This
Professor Fired for Having Tourette Syndrome?
We want to ensure harassment-free climates in schools and workplaces,
and we want to protect the rights of people with disabilities. What happens
when these imperatives collide?
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tourette-syndrome-lowell-handler/
The Experiment:
The life and afterlife of the Paris Commune.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/paris-commune/
Letters From the
November 28/December 5, 2022, Issue: Godard’s intentions… The pain of others…
Let the voters decide… Building power to win (web only)…
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/letters-from-the-november-28-december-5-2022-issue/
A French
Village’s Radical Vision of a Good Life with Alzheimer’s: Every resident of the
Village Landais has dementia—and the autonomy to spend each day however they
please.
Musk says
granting ‘amnesty’ to suspended Twitter accounts
Here’s how to
stay healthy as respiratory illnesses spread this holiday season
Joe Hill Killed
for Singing Labor’s Song
One hundred seven
years ago, the labor troubadour Joe Hill was executed by a Utah firing squad
for a crime he almost certainly didn’t commit. His real crime: singing and
agitating on behalf of the working class.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/joe-hill-killed
Africa’s Great
Lakes Red with Blood as War Rages: Why is nobody paying attention to Rwanda?
Maybe it’s the cobalt, copper, lithium, and rainforest, precious resources
exploited by every large country for years.
https://www.laprogressive.com/africa/africas-great-lakes-red
Addressing Youth
Mental Health, by Youth, for Youth: In fall 2020, the youth council met with
school, city, and county officials to advocate for more resources to address
youth mental health burdens with success.
https://www.laprogressive.com/social-justice/addressing-youth-mental-health
https://www.nytimes.com/explain/2022/11/20/health/medicare-open-enrollment
How Hospice
Became a For-Profit Hustle: It began as a visionary notion—that patients could
die with dignity at home. Now it’s a twenty-two-billion-dollar industry plagued
by exploitation.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/how-hospice-became-a-for-profit-hustle
For America’s
top-ranked CEOs, too much is never enough
This “Medicare”
is No Advantage…Could Cost You Millions Featuring Alex Lawson – Nov 28, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3mK0zb9zzg
‘No path’
forward: Biden calls on Congress to avert rail strike. Many rank and file
railroad workers have fought to have better sick leave policies than those
enshrined in the agreement, and Biden's action represents a significant split
with parts of his labor base.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/28/freight-rail-shutdown-fuel-supply-00070980?cid=apn
“Pro-Labor President”
Backs Down Ahead of Rail Strike: Worried about the economic consequences of a
rail strike, Biden has asked Congress to intervene in a labor dispute.
https://newrepublic.com/article/169177/biden-labor-strike-sanders-warren
Bernie Sanders:
Congress Must Act To Guarantee Paid Sick Leave For Rail Workers – Nov 29, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjAHKSyU0h4
House passes bill
to avert rail strike
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3756478-house-passes-bill-to-avert-rail-strike/
$1,000 a month,
no strings attached. New anti-poverty experiment comes to Silicon Valley. Guaranteed income pilot is part of a Bay
Area-wide trend
Disappearing
America: Feeling the Bern—Part 1: Capitalists defend their rabid anti-socialism
as tough love, harsh, yes, but necessary to ween us from our addiction to
character-weakening, morality-undermining government handouts.
https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/disappearing-america-feeling-the-bern
The Fed’s Inflation
Mistake Continues | Robert Reich – Nov 29, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYC9RMEZjTQ
The Climate
Villains of the Rail Strike: Workers and the planet share common enemies.
Unsurprisingly, the fossil fuel industry wants this strike blocked.
https://newrepublic.com/article/169179/rail-strike-biden-buffet
Full List of
Senators Who Voted Against Giving Rail Workers Paid Sick Leave: 42 Republicans
and one Democrat voted against giving rail workers paid sick leave. Here are
their names.
Anti-Capitalist
Chronicles: Pedagogy of the Emancipated Laborer – Dec 1, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvw3qM5zCy0
Biden signs bill
to avert rail shutdown
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3758748-biden-signs-bill-to-avert-rail-shutdown/
Elon Musk’s
Twitter Is Suspending Liberal Accounts for “Spam”: Several major Twitter
accounts have been suspended or had other issues on the platform.
https://newrepublic.com/post/169234/elon-musk-twitter-suspending-liberal-accounts-spam
Economy adds 263K
jobs in November, unemployment holds steady at 3.7 percent
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3758999-jobs-report-economy-inflation-november-unemployment/
Labor Report from
State Senator Christine M. Tartaglione, November 18, 2022
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100168453.1413.466&gen=1
Labor Report from State Senator Christine M. Tartaglione, December 2,
2022
https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100168495.1243.118&gen=1
Manufactured
Need: What Capitalism Learned from Christianity
https://secularhumanism.org/2022/10/manufactured-need-what-capitalism-learned-from-christianity/
What We Learned
from the Fight for Paid Sick Leave for Rail Workers – Dec 4, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW9yGHPEbCQ
The Senate
Republicans Who Voted for Paid Leave Aren’t Exactly Pro-Labor: Most of them
have worse AFL-CIO lifetime scores than their GOP colleagues.
https://newrepublic.com/article/169287/rubio-hawley-cruz-labor-unions
Buying the
competition
https://popular.info/p/buying-the-competition?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
The Expanded
Child Tax Credit Is Back—Barely: Some Democrats hope to get a revived version
of the popular policy into a government funding package. Here’s what needs to
happen in the coming days for this plan to succeed.
https://newrepublic.com/article/169349/expanded-child-tax-credit-revived
Scientists
finally know why people get more colds and flu in winter
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/06/health/why-winter-colds-flu-wellness/index.html
A More Perfect
Union Day One: Emerging Technologies – Dec 6, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLVpogKOda0
CVS' diabetes
scheme
https://popular.info/p/cvs-diabetes-scheme?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Capitalism Hits
Home: How Disconnection Harms Us – Dec 8, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_4C4ii4EqI
Hit Corporate
America Where It Hertz: The rental car agency is getting away with subjecting
its customers to false arrests and imprisonment. How bad do things have to get
before there are real consequences for bad behavior?
https://newrepublic.com/post/169409/hertz-false-arrest-scandal-corporations
How cities and
states are confronting the mental health crisis: Is involuntarily hospitalizing
people with mental illness a city's 'moral obligation'?
Is it settled?
Vitamins beat cocoa to keep older minds sharp in a study
https://www.sparrow.science/is-it-settled-vitamins-beat-cocoa-to-keep-older-minds-sharp-in-a-study/
U.S. Raised
Interest Rates Worsen Foreign Debt Crises - Global Capitalism with Richard
Wolff – Dec 11, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgNdP6lFTXo
The Government Should
Stop Funding For-Profit Hospice Care: A recent story shows it’s a racket.
Because it’s taxpayer-funded through Medicare, it shouldn’t be too hard to end
it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/169415/government-stop-funding-for-profit-hospice-care
Fusion energy
breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes
https://www.ft.com/content/4b6f0fab-66ef-4e33-adec-cfc345589dc7?shareType=nongift
Thank You, Dr.
Fauci: Withstanding an assault on science
https://steady.substack.com/p/thank-you-dr-fauci?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
How McMansions
Drive LA’s Housing Costs, Homelessness, and Overcrowding: While rising income
inequality leads to overcrowding and homelessness among most Angelenos, the
small percentage of Angelenos with high incomes continue to rent luxury
apartments and buy McMansions.
https://www.laprogressive.com/homelessness/mcmansions-drive-up-las-housing-costs
Sanctions: A
Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy: An Anthology by Social Justice Activists; a
project of the Sanctions Kill Campaign
https://hollywoodprogressive.com/literature/sanctions
Post-Pandemic
Student Struggle: Our Kids Need Tutors: Rather than focus on a comprehensive
tutoring effort to reach every child, the state has spread educational recovery
funds across smaller and targeted programs.
https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/post-pandemic-student-struggle
3 crazy details
from the SEC filing against Sam Bankman-Fried
For a Better
America, We Need to Address Interlocking Injustices.
https://morningconsult.com/opinions/for-a-better-america-we-need-to-address-interlocking-injustices/
Protecting the
Right to Organize Act protects the basic right to join a union
https://edlabor.house.gov/imo/media/doc/PRO%20ACT%20-%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf
Paracetamol risk
during pregnancy? Not how you imagined
https://preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webview/20593/74404995733128251
The secret IRS
files: Trove of never-before-seen records reveal how wealthiest avoid income
tax
How the
ultrawealthy devise ways to not pay their share of taxes
Musk’s Twitter disbands its Trust and Safety advisory
group
Sam
Bankman-Fried’s esteemed Stanford parents face their own reckoning: Joseph
Bankman and Barbara Fried are being investigated on multiple fronts over
whether they were complicit in acts that led to the collapse of their son’s
crypto company.
Sam Bankman-Fried
faces dire prison conditions after being denied bail
The College
Student Tracking Elon’s Jet Had All His Twitter Accounts Suspended: Jack
Sweeney had more than 30 Twitter accounts tracking rich people’s private jets.
They're all suspended, and so is his personal Twitter account.
https://newrepublic.com/post/169532/jack-sweeney-tracking-elon-jet-twitter-accounts-suspended
Anti-Capitalist
Chronicles: Mainstreaming Marxism & Redefining Capitalism – December 15,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzKzTaVCdQU
Ask Prof Wolff
LIVE: Interest Rates Hurt the Same People Inflation Hurts – Dec 16, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGJPIlnsAC0
Twitter suspends
journalists who have been covering Elon Musk and the company: Musk joined a
Twitter Space to say the suspensions were related to new rules banning private
jet trackers. Twitter suspended an account that tweeted the whereabouts of his
plane.
UC Workers in
Richest State in Richest Country Strike For Living Wages – Dec 16, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYyIosVzybs
Dow closes more
than 200 points lower, falls for a second straight week as recession fears grow
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/15/stock-futures-are-down-slightly-as-investors-continue-sell-off.html
Elon Musk is
using the Twitter Files to discredit foes and push conspiracy theories
The ‘free’
market: hogtied, shot, & drowned
https://hightowerlowdown.org/article/the-free-market-hogtied-shot-drowned/
“If We Make It
Through December” - A Reason To Give
https://steady.substack.com/p/if-we-make-it-through-december
Dubious
Challenges to Biden’s Student Debt Order Keep Piling Up at the Supreme Court:
It’s by no means clear that the high court will ultimately spike the
administration’s loan forgiveness plan, but it will have a range of
opportunities.
https://newrepublic.com/article/169531/student-debt-challenges-supreme-court
Fascism Has a
Friend in Car Repossession – Dec 19, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaT1YHSMufg
What would it
take to end homelessness in California? $8 billion a year for 12 years. A new, first-of-its-kind report lays out a
plan — and cost estimate — to end homelessness in California.
Biden
administration plans to cut homelessness 25% by 2025: New data shows an
estimated 582,462 unhoused people in the U.S.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/19/biden-administration-plans-to-cut-homelessness-25-by-2025/
They Own More
Than The Entire Working Class? – Dec 20, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz8XuQfMUvI
After two
difficult Covid winters, the current season of respiratory sickness in the
United States already rivals some of the worst cold and flu seasons on record —
and it started about two months early.
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