Sunday, July 14, 2024

Economics and Corruption and Healthcare and Education related links 071424

 

Richard Wolff on Gaza, Palestine/Israel, Ukraine, and Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Rq3W-oRt4

 

Suffer Young Women.  The World Health Organization puts the United States at 55th worldwide in maternal mortality, just behind Russia.

https://www.laprogressive.com/gender-discrimination/suffer-young-women

 

A life-changing $750 monthly stipend: A “guaranteed income” program studied what happened when a hundred unhoused people were given money. Find out how they spent the Miracle Messages cash and how it transformed their lives.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/12/23/how-750-a-month-helped-bay-area-homeless-people-spend-less-time-on-the-street/

 

From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmq7QqqY4vo

 

What Is Hawala? Money Transfer Without Money Movement

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hawala.asp

 

The Insufferable Bros Who Run Corporate America.  A quiet merger trial between antitrust enforcers and a pharma data giant called IQVIA reveals how bro-style executives control your medical data.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-insufferable-bros-who-run-corporate

 

AS WE LOOK TO 2024, HERE’S WHAT HOPE LOOKS LIKE.  When it felt like the world was falling apart, these movements brought people together to make what seemed impossible, possible.

https://otherwords.org/as-we-look-to-2024-heres-what-hope-looks-like/

 

The Harm of Hiding a Breast Cancer Diagnosis

https://katiecouric.com/health/cancer/breaking-breast-cancer-taboos/

 

The number of serious medical errors in hospitals rose after they were taken over by private equity firms, a study found.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/upshot/hospitals-medical-errors.html

 

Cashiers Among Lowest Paid Retail Workers

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/12/holiday-retail-workers.html

 

Despite billions spent, new data shows almost a third of the nation’s homeless now live in California

The state’s homeless population increased by 6%. Why is the crisis still getting worse?

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/12/28/despite-billions-spent-new-data-shows-almost-a-third-of-the-nations-homeless-now-live-in-california/

 

Once Public Schools are Largely Dead, Here's What Happens Next...  Republicans will then begin lobbying to “reduce spending” by cutting the amount allocated for the vouchers, locking the emerging two-tier status of publicly funded education into place...

https://hartmannreport.com/p/once-public-schools-are-largely-dead-ec4

 

Breaking Down the Basics of Breast Cancer

https://katiecouric.com/health/cancer/understanding-breast-cancer/

 

Help Me Break Through the Noise

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

 

A federal administrative law judge in Colorado has ruled that Starbucks worker and Starbucks Workers United organizer Len Harris was illegally fired for organizing a union. The judge has ordered Starbucks to not only rehire her, but issue back pay and apologize.

https://mailchi.mp/78a74029d9ea/is-starbucks-chocolate-a-dirty-trick-or-a-clean-treat-13940082?e=8fd44287f5

 

The Great Reordering.  There can be no doubt now that an epochal shift is underway in how the economy—in America and across the globe—is governed. The mystery is how a moderate, conventional politician like Joe Biden engineered it.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/10/29/the-great-reordering/

 

Winning the Anti-monopoly Game.  Despite press accounts to the contrary, the Biden administration’s revival of antitrust policy isn’t failing. It’s just getting started.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/10/29/winning-the-anti-monopoly-game/

 

My Parkinson’s Crisis—And Ours.  The still-mysterious disease is spreading wildly, and Washington isn’t doing enough. As a physician and a sufferer, I should know.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/10/29/my-parkinsons-crisis-and-ours/

 

Donald Trump Freed a Convicted Medicare Fraudster. The Justice Department Wants Him Back.

The cautionary tale of nursing home mogul Philip Esformes.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/philip-esformes-trial-morris-medicare-fraud-prosecution-donald-trump-clemency/

 

You Won’t Recognize These Striking Hollywood Workers. And That’s the Point.  Stories from inside the film industry’s gig economy.

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2023/09/hollywood-writers-actors-strike-photos-sag-aftra-wga/

 

The Mirage of “Middle Class”.  The constant refrain of campaign season implies class politics. Does it actually lead to them?

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/middle-class-david-roediger-democratic-messaging-clinton-obama-cold-war-liberalism/

 

In 2024, California employers can no longer punish employees for using marijuana outside work

https://www.yahoo.com/news/2024-california-employers-no-longer-130000769.html

 

​Hidden Risk Factors, Warning Signs of Liver Disease.  Drinking, taking antibiotics, even high blood pressure can tax your liver in potentially dangerous ways

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2021/bad-habits-liver-damage.html

 

The End of Milton Friedman’s Reign.  The Chicago school ruled supreme over economics—until recently.

https://newrepublic.com/article/175932/milton-friedman-chicagonomics-end-reign

 

What’s Going on With the Economy? I Asked Biden’s Top Economic Adviser | Robert Reich – November of 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD9BXqaZCBU

 

In Missouri, Autoworkers Are Fighting for the Future of the Industry.  GM workers, out on their second strike in four years, are done with concessions.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-strike-wentzville-missouri-gm-plant-fain-industry

 

Striking Autoworkers Remember Broken Promises.  Workers at the Big Three agreed to major concessions as part of the auto bailout of 2009. Fourteen years later, with business booming, they’re on strike to demand what they lost—and more.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-strike-ford-gm-stellantis-delphi-bailout-autoworkers-promises

 

In Small Town Appalachia, Locals Battle a Weapons-Grade Uranium Plant.  The company Nuclear Fuel Services wants to process weapons-grade uranium for the U.S. government at a facility in Erwin, Tennessee. Some locals aren’t having it.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/nuclear-pollution-uranium-contamination-unicoi

 

Striking a Chord for Change: The Poor People’s Campaign for Revolution.  In an effort to record their first album of movement songs, the New York State chapter of the Poor People’s Campaign is tapping into an old organizing tradition with hopes of inspiring change.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/ppc-music-for-revolution-activism-poor-peoples-campaign

 

If Democrats Want to Win Elections, They Should Bring Back the Covid Welfare State.  By many measures, Bidenomics is working great—but most Americans are still down on the economy. That’s in large part because the U.S. government let its temporarily generous social safety net unravel.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/biden-democrats-economy-bidenomics-welfare-covid-left

 

Before Shawn Fain, There Was Jerry Tucker

https://www.proquest.com/docview/2888381646/fulltext?sourcetype=Magazines

 

The Fascist Movement’s Biggest Threat: Labor Unions?  An interview with Paul Ortiz on how unions have fought Gov. Ron Desantis’ reactionary rule—and unions as an anti-fascist force.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/united-faculty-of-florida-paul-ortiz-bill-fletcher-ron-desantis

 

Conservatives Want to Destroy Public Schools. Communities are Fighting Back.  “The decision to hate your neighbors and reject your public school isn’t actually the most affordable, practical or preferable path for most people.”

https://inthesetimes.com/article/far-right-public-schools-takeover-south-teachers

 

How the Super Rich Are Killing Social Security | Robert Reich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfZuB7XSFys

 

US employers add surprisingly strong 216,000 jobs in sign of economic strength

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/5/2215539/-US-employers-add-surprisingly-strong-216-000-jobs-in-sign-of-economic-strength

 

U.S. economy adds 216,000 jobs in December, ending 2023 with a bang

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/05/us-jobs-report-december-2023

 

Starbucks Faces New Pressure Over Union Campaign.  Amid a dissident bid for board seats and boycotts by activists, the company has sent mixed signals about its willingness to engage with labor groups.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/business/starbucks-union-workers-boycott.html

 

Study Finds Most Cancer Survivors Who Used Marijuana Reported 'Great Degree Of Symptomatic Improvement' - Marijuana Moment

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/study-finds-most-cancer-survivors-who-used-marijuana-reported-great-degree-of-symptomatic-improvement/

 

Finland Solved Homelessness: Here's How (Spoiler: It's More Than Housing First) – December, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jt_6PBnCJE

 

Statement from President Joe Biden on the December Jobs Report

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/01/05/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-the-december-jobs-report/

 

Statement from National Economic Advisor Lael Brainard on Today’s CHIPS & Science Act Announcement

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/01/04/statement-from-national-economic-advisor-lael-brainard-on-todays-chips-science-act-announcement/

 

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Releases Global Health Security Partnerships Annual Progress Report Demonstrating Results from United States Investments

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/12/30/fact-sheet-biden-%e2%81%a0harris-administration-releases-global-health-security-partnerships-annual-progress-report-demonstrating-results-from-united-states-investments/

 

Payday Report - Missile Factories Struggle to Find Workers as Wars Rage - Costco Apologizes to Employees - Teachers Union Sue to Stop Pro-Transit Measure

https://mailchi.mp/paydayreport.com/missile-factories-struggle-to-find-workers-as-wars-rage-costco-apologizes-to-employees-teachers-union-sue-to-stop-pro-transit-measure?e=fb65b09caf

 

How America is pushing China out of the internet – December, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyoILSNeq8U

 

Why Americans Can’t Keep Their Paychecks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QP9HESt3nc

 

Economic Update: U.S. China Decoupling Myth – January 8, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6oDLv0eVTU

 

China – A 23-year-old girl was hospitalised after complains of multiple body pain. The hospital examination found that she was infected with the cysticercosis.

https://www.captain-planet.net/after-eating-pork-for-10-years-womans-body-riddled-with-parasitic-worms-cysts/

 

The surprising truth about lectins | Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

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

 

AVOID Ginger If You Have THESE Health Problems!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfG-t2fINo4

 

There’s More to Education Than Free Speech,” The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 19, 2023

Hillsdale College Teaches FIRE that Education is More than Free Speech

https://lp.hillsdale.edu/speech/

 

Harvard’s Hamas Confusion, An Elite College Degree is the Fastest Way to Disabuse a Student of the Idea of Truth.” The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 27, 2023

https://lp.hillsdale.edu/wsj-2443095/

 

Starbucks is being sued by a group representing US Consumers who allege that Starbucks is using coffee from farms with human and labor rights violations while touting its ‘ethical’ sourcing.

https://mailchi.mp/7478d5cfb4d1/is-starbucks-chocolate-a-dirty-trick-or-a-clean-treat-13941718?e=8fd44287f5

 

US congressional leaders reach deal top-line spending agreement

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-congressional-leaders-reach-deal-top-line-spending-agreement-2024-01-07/

 

Government as a Monopoly?  The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream – January 7, 2024

https://hartmannreport.com/p/government-as-a-monopoly

 

Racial & Economic Justice Fund

https://breadrosesfund.org/grants-scholarships/racial-economic-justice-fund/

 

How the .01% see US'in's! A single sentence from WD-40's CFO explains how companies are greasing the wheels for disinflation

https://qz.com/a-single-sentence-from-wd-40s-cfo-explains-how-companie-1851156776

 

California's homelessness crisis just can't catch a break.  Recent data dispels a widespread theory for who's to blame

https://theweek.com/business/economy/california-homelessness-crisis

 

Letters to the editor: Locking Up Mental Health Centers is a Step Backwards; Netanyahu Knew Hamas Was Coming; Distorted Israel/Palestine History; & Give Progressives Reasons to Vote Democratic.

https://populist.com/30.01.Letters.html

 

How the oligarchy shrank America’s middle class (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 8)

I saw it happen.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-declining-power-of-the-middle

 

Dispatches: MORE JOBS DROP UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FURTHER; STUDY SHOWS CORPORATE PROFITEERING ‘AMPLIFIED’ GLOBAL INFLATION; IT’S HIGH TIME, AS 6 DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS URGE DEA TO RESCHEDULE MARIJUANA BY YEAR-END; RURAL JOBS GREW IN SEPTEMBER, BUT THEY’RE STILL LAGGING; SENATE REPUBLICANS HAND PUTIN PROPAGANDA VICTORY; CHATTANOOGA VW WORKERS ANNOUNCE PUSH TO JOIN UAW; DEJOY’S USPS LEADERSHIP IS DEADLY; DISARRAY ALERT: HOUSE REPUBLICANS STRUGGLE WITH SLIM MAJORITY AND CHAOS; & REPUBLICANS ADVANCE PLAN FORCING TAXPAYERS TO CLEAN UP BIG OIL’S MESS.

https://populist.com/30.01.Dispatches.html

 

Froma Harrop: What happens if anti-vaxxers just face the consequences?  From the commentary, "Once the vaccine came out, though, excess deaths for Republicans were almost double those for Democrats. Perhaps it's in the right's interest to keep its voters alive."

https://www.wctrib.com/opinion/columns/froma-harrop-what-happens-if-anti-vaxxers-just-face-the-consequences

 

Soybeans’ Big Players Looking to a Bruising Year Ahead

https://populist.com/30.01.Guebert.html

 

The High Cost of Low Holiday Prices.  Give a gift to the starving workers who made your favorite holiday sweater — tell their employers to pay up.

https://populist.com/30.01.Kolhatkar.html

 

The Importance of Home.  For generations, poor people have relied on each other to keep a roof over their heads. But in the world’s wealthiest country, we need more.

https://populist.com/30.01.Ramos.html

 

What The Numbers Now Tell About Biden’s Economy

https://populist.com/30.01.Conason.html

 

Workers Need a Fighting Chance

https://populist.com/30.01.McCall.html

 

Wall Street or the Working Class: The Democrats Must Choose.  They can’t try to have it both ways indefinitely. If they really helped working people meet the economic challenges facing them, the party would lose favor with the barons of finance and their corporate cronies.

https://populist.com/30.01.Leopold.html

 

If Democrats Ran Red States, Fewer People Would Die.  It shouldn’t surprise us that a political party that swears its first allegiance to billionaires and giant multinational corporations would choose money and profits over health and life...

https://populist.com/30.01.hartmann.html

 

Scraping Away the Anti-Worker, Anti-Racial Equity Vestiges of the Reagan Era.  The Biden administration aims to undo contracting policy holdovers from the 1980s to boost public investment benefits for workers and their communities.

https://populist.com/30.01.SAnderson.html

 

America’s anxiety disorder.  How can we best remedy it?

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/americas-stress-crisis

 

Dangerous Ideas Need Stifling

https://populist.com/30.01.Retsinas.html

 

Hey House GOP, Keep Hands Off Social Security and Medicare!  House Speaker Mike Johnson knows how important Social Security is to hard-working Americans, so he has devised an accountability-free way to gut it.

https://populist.com/30.01.Schakowsky.html

 

Private employers hire 103,000 new workers in November; pay growth decelerates

https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_1fb9707a-9499-11ee-b68b-9b4a1134a8ef.html

 

Outrage in Wyoming Erupts Over Public Land Auction

https://populist.com/30.01.Rose.html

 

Finally Sold on Reading Ebooks

https://populist.com/30.01.Patterson.html

 

Inside AI's giant land grab.  Chatbots may live in the cloud, but they're powered by massive concrete boxes — and they're coming to a town near you.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-data-centers-land-grab-google-meta-openai-amazon-2023-12

 

Marx’s Vision of Sustainable Human Development

https://monthlyreview.org/2005/10/01/marxs-vision-of-sustainable-human-development/

 

This week new workers filed to join the union in New Orleans, LA. And workers won their elections in Baton Rouge, LA, Duluth, MN, Los Angeles, CA, Plainfield, IN, Philadelphia, and Strongsville, OH. That’s a whole lot of new partners, becoming partners - welcome and congratulations!

https://mailchi.mp/87132fae4d4c/is-starbucks-chocolate-a-dirty-trick-or-a-clean-treat-13942130?e=8fd44287f5

 

Who is America’s Largest Landowner?

https://landreport.com/land-report-100

 

American Jewish Congress (AJC)

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/american-jewish-congress-ajc

 

Can Democracy Survive the Morbidly Rich?  So, Donald Trump won Iowa. A crazed billionaire who wants to “suspend the constitution“ and claims the right to a murder his political enemies. It doesn’t have to be this way.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/can-democracy-survive-the-morbidly-204

 

City Hall’s Mishandling of L.A.'s Homeless Crisis Not Its Cause.  I doubt that well-run local homeless services would make a qualitative difference. The overall trend of increasing homelessness since 2011 would continue.

https://www.laprogressive.com/homelessness/homeless-crisis

 

Rightwing Billionaires & Trump Want a Nation Where Everything is For Sale.  Republicans are pushing our country: no social safety net, corrupt regulatory and police agencies, politicians and legislation for sale, and absolute immunity for the morbidly rich… - January 8, 2024

https://hartmannreport.com/p/rightwing-billionaires-and-trump-77b

 

Commons vs Private.  The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream – January 14, 2024

https://hartmannreport.com/p/commons-vs-private

 

Economic Update: Corporations vs Democracy – January 16, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh44qQK5av4

 

Banks prepare to take on the Biden administration over billions of dollars in overdraft fees

https://apnews.com/article/banking-overdraft-junk-fees-cfpb-jpmorgan-3842af05c0197cba396a9552eb4b099c

 

"Everyone should have safe, affordable medicines with transparent prices." – Mark Cuban

https://costplusdrugs.com/

 

World’s 20 Happiest Countries in 2023

https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2023/03/20/ranked-the-20-happiest-countries-in-the-world-in-2023/?sh=39bb90b079c2

 

Gaza: Ghastly Window on Global Capitalism's Crisis.  Global corporate and political elites are in a drunkard’s hangover from the world capitalist boom of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/gaza-ghastly-window

 

California Fails to Provide Adequate Healthcare Access to Children and Young Adults.  Among 33 issues of importance to youth on which California was graded, the state received a D- on providing access to healthcare.

https://www.laprogressive.com/california-political-issues/california-fails-to-provide-healthcare-access

 

Anger in Red States Is Rising.  MAGA anger and anger in the red states and rural areas is rising for good reason. We should all be angry.

https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/maga-anger-is-righteous

 

Ask Prof Wolff Live - January 17, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d4ckzB6j5Q

 

Diamonds Are a Crook's Best Friend (with Aja Raden).  What do the new rolling sanctions mean for Russia and for organized crime?

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/diamonds-are-a-crooks-best-friend

 

POWER Grants Help Appalachian Region Focus on Community, Infrastructure, & Education

https://reimagineappalachia.org/power-grants-help-appalachian-region-focus-on-community-infrastructure-education/

 

STATEMENT: Keystone Research Center Lauds UAW Deals with Automakers

https://krc-pbpc.org/research_publication/statement-keystone-research-center-lauds-uaw-deals-with-automakers/

 

ARISE Grants Will Boost Sustainable Manufacturing in Southwest Pennsylvania & Appalachia

https://reimagineappalachia.org/arise-grants-will-boost-manufacturing-in-southwest-pennsylvania-and-beyond/

 

Fair Taxation Can Help Achieve a More Just Pittsburgh Nthando Thandiwe and Stephen Herzenberg1

https://krc-pbpc.org/wp-content/uploads/Pittsburgh-Fair-Taxation-Brief-Final.pdf

 

In 2024, Will PA Finally Forge Ahead, Like Our Neighbors, By Raising Our Minimum Wage?

https://krc-pbpc.org/research_publication/in-2024-will-pa-finally-forge-ahead-like-our-neighbors-by-raising-our-minimum-wage/

 

Federal Climate Infrastructure Funds Spur Job-Creating Investments in PA, OH, WV and KY

https://krc-pbpc.org/research_publication/federal-climate-infrastructure-funds-spur-job-creating-investments-in-pa-oh-wv-and-ky/

 

The Early Returns Show Big Clean Manufacturing Investments in Coal Country

https://krc-pbpc.org/research_publication/the-early-returns-show-big-clean-manufacturing-investments-in-coal-country/

 

Other States Enact Pro-Worker, Pro-Union Laws in 2023 That Pennsylvania Should Consider

https://krc-pbpc.org/research_publication/pro-worker-laws/

 

Why Is Paying for College So Complicated?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/18/business/college-tuition-money.html

 

Sanders targets pharma CEOs to testify in Senate, but some see 'retaliation' for lawsuit against Biden admin. 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sanders-targets-pharma-ceos-testify-before-help-committee

 

Congressional Researchers Detail Limitations Of Marijuana Rescheduling For State Markets And Criminal Justice Reform

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/congressional-researchers-detail-limitations-of-marijuana-rescheduling-for-state-markets-and-criminal-justice-reform/

 

Microsoft says state-backed Russian hackers accessed emails of senior leadership team members – January 19, 2024

https://www.the-journal.com/articles/microsoft-says-state-backed-russian-hackers-accessed-emails-of-senior-leadership-team-members/

 

Late Stage Capitalism's Hostile Architecture.  Jesus would have been arrested for the bread and fish thing and I can’t imagine the multiple laws against the wine/water trick.

https://www.laprogressive.com/homelessness/late-stage-capitalism


Artificial Intelligence Isn't.  A.I. programs can craft images of flowers by comparing millions of flower images. But A.I. programs cannot imbue a flower painting with the beauty that Georgia O’Keefe did.

https://www.laprogressive.com/techie-tips/artificial-intelligence-isnt

 

Libertarians Object.  The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream – January 21, 2024

https://hartmannreport.com/p/libertarians-object

 

The Silent Revolution in American Economics | Robert Reich – January 22, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2x7LFBz8U8

 

Economic Update: As The Empire Crumbles – January 22, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jklp36Ukhfo

 

The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.  As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers—physicians, teachers, professors, and more—are packing their bags.

https://newrepublic.com/article/176854/republican-red-states-brain-drain

 

The Colombian Murder Case That Refuses to Die.  Twenty-two years ago, three union leaders for mine workers employed by an American company were killed. The murders have gone unsolved. But now the Colombian government is prosecuting two company executives for financing the paramilitary group responsible for the killings.

https://newrepublic.com/article/176808/colombian-murder-case-refuses-die

 

Americans Are Finally Starting to Feel Better About the Economy.  Consumer sentiment, among Democrats and Republicans, has jumped sharply in the past two months. That’s encouraging news for Joe Biden.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/americans-are-finally-starting-to-feel-better-about-the-economy

 

A few tech stocks, known collectively as the “Magnificent Seven,” have driven the S&P 500 to a new high.  A line chart showing the percentage changes of the total market value of the combined ‘Magnificent Seven’ stocks, which are Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla, versus the overall S&P 500 from its last low on Oct. 12, 2022. These stocks have vastly outperformed.

Here’s why these stocks have an outsize impact on the market.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/22/business/magnificent-seven-stocks-tech.html

 

Organize or Die.  Unions must use their current momentum to propel new organizing.

https://progressive.org/magazine/organize-or-die-nolan-20231218/

 

Vox Populist: Revolving Doors in Congress; Privatization in Schools.  Words from populist author, public speaker, and radio commentator Jim Hightower.

https://progressive.org/magazine/money-rules-congress-money-rules-schools-hightower-20240104/

 

Edge of Sports: Why the Politics of the Sports World Has Been a Hot Mess.  Since Biden’s election, apathy has reigned. If people want to see a return of the athlete activist, then our attention needs to be on the state of the struggle off the field.

https://progressive.org/magazine/politics-of-the-sports-world-has-been-a-hot-mess-zirin-20240102/

 

Smart Ass Cripple: Fixing Our Broken System of Long-Term Care.  Everyone in need of home and community assistance must be able to get it—without being made to feel like a burden.

https://progressive.org/magazine/fixing-our-broken-system-of-long-term-care-ervin-20231228/

 

Work Won't Love You Back: Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired.  Workers are taking matters into their own hands, reshuffling the structure of the old organizations and inventing new strategies for the workforce of today.

https://progressive.org/magazine/sick-and-tired-of-being-sick-and-tired-jaffe-20231220/

 

Workers want unions, but the latest data point to obstacles in their path.  Private-sector unionization rose by more than a quarter million in 2023, while unionization in state and local governments fell

https://www.epi.org/publication/union-membership-data/

 

Decline of labor unions weakens American democracy

https://www.epi.org/blog/decline-of-labor-unions-weakens-american-democracy/

 

There’s no debate.  Measurable income inequality has skyrocketed in recent decades

https://www.epi.org/blog/theres-no-debate-measurable-income-inequality-has-skyrocketed-in-recent-decades/

 

Taking on Big Pharma's Corporate Greed – January 25, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSz5xoxM5vo

 

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on the economy, election – January 25, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBz3mceAG-M

 

Pennsylvania governor proposes to overhaul the state university system

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/us/politics/pennsylvania-governor-proposes-to-overhaul-the-state-university-system.html

 

Handwriting Boosts Brain Connectivity and Learning – January 26, 2024

https://neurosciencenews.com/handwriting-learning-brain-connectivity-25522/

 

Construction starts on huge lithium project near Salton Sea despite threat of a lawsuit

https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2024/01/25/lawsuit-could-block-massive-project-near-salton-sea/72354176007/

 

Column: The lithium revolution has arrived at California’s Salton Sea

https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2024-01-25/column-the-lithium-revolution-has-arrived-at-californias-salton-sea-boiling-point

 

Sanders ratchets up criticism of drug company CEOs ahead of possible subpoena
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4429392-sanders-ratchets-up-criticism-of-drug-company-ceos-ahead-of-possible-subpoena/

 

Gene therapy shows promise for an inherited form of deafness

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/01/24/1226595039/gene-therapy-shows-promise-for-an-inherited-form-of-deafness

 

Just two northern white rhinos remain. The species’ first IVF pregnancy could save them from extinction

The first successful embryo transfer in a southern white rhino paves way for using technique to save rarer northern cousins

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/24/just-two-northern-white-rhinos-remain-an-ivf-breakthrough-could-save-them-from-extinction-aoe

 

Biden administration plans to slash overdraft fees at big banks: ‘I call it exploitation,’ president says

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/19/biden-administration-plans-to-slash-overdraft-fees-at-big-banks.html

 

Reviving America, One College Town at a Time.  How symbiotic relationships between colleges and their communities have reaped rewards in Erie, Pennsylvania, and Waterville, Maine.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/01/08/reviving-america-one-college-town-at-a-time/

 

The New Political Economy.  The rules of the marketplace, once managed by experts, are increasingly subject to partisan conflict. Good—that’s what the Founders intended. And liberals need to be the vanguard.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/01/08/the-new-political-economy/

 

Everyday High Prices.  How discounting led to inflation, shortages, and inequality.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/01/08/everyday-high-prices/

 

Manufacturing and Liberty.  As Biden strives to break China’s hold on the West, it’s time to relearn America’s no chokepoint strategy.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/01/08/manufacturing-and-liberty/

 

Need a New Economic Vision? Gotcha Covered

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/01/08/need-a-new-economic-vision-gotcha-covered/

 

Medicine at the Mercy of Wall Street.  Investment bankers turn publicly funded pharmaceuticals into privately held gold mines. Reforming the patent system would change that.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/01/08/medicine-at-the-mercy-of-wall-street/

 

Trust Fund U.  In its defense of affirmative action, Harvard has cast itself as a force for social equality. But the Ivy League’s true function is to consolidate the power of the wealthy.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2023/01/08/trust-fund-u/

 

The Rise of the American Oligarchy.  What targeting Russia’s wayward billionaires revealed about our own.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/american-oligarchy-introduction-essay-russia-ukraine-capitalism/

 

A Brief History of Superyachts.  And how they explain the world.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/a-brief-history-of-superyachts/

 

How the US Became the World’s Refuge for Dirty Money.  Who needs the Bahamas anymore when you’ve got Sioux Falls?

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/dirty-money-united-states-bahamas-sioux-falls-financial-crimes/

 

The Dark Side of the $100 Bill.  Benjamins are fueling international crime and corruption. So why are we printing more than ever?

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/100-bill-crime-corruption-treasury-tax-evasion/

 

When Gilded Age Lawmakers Saved America From Plutocracy.  And how Biden’s team is using their playbook to take on Big Tech.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/how-gilded-age-lawmakers-saved-america-from-plutocracy/

 

Philanthropy in America Is Broken.  We taxpayers heavily subsidize ultrawealthy giving. But who really benefits?

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/philanthropy-broken-giving-foundations-democracy/

 

Billionaires’ Giving Pledge: Part Tax Strategy, Part PR Stunt.  Has it made the world a better place? You be the judge.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/giving-pledge-bill-gates-warren-buffett-elon-musk-sbf-philanthropy/

 

How “Woke Capitalism” Became a Right-Wing Obsession.  Vivek Ramaswamy may no longer be running for president. But his anti-ESG legacy has already won.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/woke-capital-vivek-ramaswamy-esg-capitalism-finance/

 

Receipts. Proof. Timelines. Screenshots: Why We Can’t Look Away From Rich People’s Drama.  The uber-wealthy are losing it over the dumbest things—and we’re hooked.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/kardashians-real-housewives-reality-tv-wealth-rich-people/

 

Elon Musk’s Texas Takeover.  How the world’s richest man transformed the Lone Star State into “the modern incarnation of the company town.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/elon-musk-spacex-texas-boca-chica-oligarchy/

 

There Is a Very Good Reason Why Donald Trump Thinks Everything Is Rigged.  In business, he was a master of gaming the system.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/donald-trump-oligarch-in-chief-rigged-business-record/

 

Meet the Silicon Valley CEOs Who Insist That Greed Is Good.  Even if “effective accelerationism” kills us all.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/12/effective-accelerationism/

 

These Billionaires Want to Disrupt Death—and Keep Their Fortunes Forever.  Sci-fi meets Silicon Valley meets the trust industry.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/alcor-cryonics-peter-thiel-billionaires-dynasty-trusts-aging-disease-death-immortality/

 

Economic Update: US Capitalism At The Crossroads – January 29, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAByukA-nIA

 

Disinformation Is the Real Threat to Democracy and Public Health.  Disinformation abounds, and it can kill. Fortunately, it can often be unambiguously identified

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/disinformation-is-the-real-threat-to-democracy-and-public-health/

 

Trump's attorney's last-ditch scheme BLOWS UP in her face – January 30, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52aJVlELvOQ

 

The Right Is Winning Its War on Schools. Using bogus scandals and funding crunches, Republicans across the country are decimating public education.

https://newrepublic.com/article/177563/right-winning-war-schools

 

The Economists Who Found the Richest People of All Time.  Branko Milanovic and Guido Alfani study inequality over the course of human history. The results are not good.

https://newrepublic.com/article/177555/economists-found-richest-people-time

 

America’s Remarkably Resilient Economy.  Spending by consumers and governments keeps powering growth. Can it last?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/gdp-report-consumer-spending-economy-price-index-425deb40

 

Good news on the economy?

https://www.readtangle.com/economic-news-gdp-growth-biden/?ref=tangle-newsletter

 

Is the Vibecession Finally Coming to an End?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/opinion/biden-trump-vibecession-economy.html

 

Preliminary Results for January 2024

http://www.sca.isr.umich.edu/?ref=readtangle.com

 

Why Can't Morbidly Rich Tech CEOs Be Sued or Arrested?  Not only has Section 230 turned the web into a stalking ground for sexual predators, it’s also given Putin cheap & easy access to Americans, an access he’s been using for years to tear us apart...

https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-cant-morbidly-rich-tech-ceos-3dc

 

'Blood on your hands'.  A roundup of the headlines from the US front pages

https://theweek.com/us-todays-newspapers

 

Marianne Williamson on Social Security: Honor The Elders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmzQ1YsG2K8

 

Biden Takes Aim at Grocery Chains Over Food Prices. President Biden has begun to accuse stores of overcharging shoppers, as food costs remain a burden for consumers and a political problem for the president.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/us/politics/biden-food-prices.html

 

The Biden administration made opening offers to drug companies whose products face Medicare price negotiations.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/us/politics/medicare-drug-price-negotiations.html

 

Democrats and the working class

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opinion/biden-trump-democratic-party-future.html

 

A “Goldilocks” economy

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/opinion/biden-trump-economy-goldilocks.html

 

James Madison Warned us the Morbidly Rich Are the Greatest Threat to our Republic.  Madison wasn’t talking about an abstraction or some highfalutin concept. He was talking about how some rich people will inevitably try to seize political power to screw everybody else.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/james-madison-warned-us-the-morbidly-ea8

 

From Route 66 to Anytown, USA.  The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream – February 4, 2024

https://hartmannreport.com/p/from-route-66-to-anytown-usa

 

Economic Update: The US Economy As An Apartheid System – February 5, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dQ58Mt-xfQ

 

Why Air Travel Is So Expensive and Unpleasant; Why Is My Doctor Unionizing?; Want Environmental Progress? Follow The Kids; The Rattiest Right-Wing Congress Critter; A New Road to Farm, Food and Climate Progress; My New Year’s Resolutions for Some Powerful People

https://populist.com/30.02.Hightower.html

 

The Deadly New GOP Plan to Rapidly Privatize Medicare.  Medicare Advantage is not Medicare: it’s private health insurance for seniors that’s largely paid for with our tax dollars. They make their money by routinely denying claims…

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-deadly-new-gop-plan-to-rapidly-be9

 

Think Tipping Is Out of Control? Watch This. | Robert Reich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS71sdrfm8U

 

Airbnb Drives Up Housing Costs for All: Let's Regulate It.  Corporate landlords are buying up homes and converting them into short-term rentals, but some cities are fighting back.

https://www.laprogressive.com/homelessness/airbnb-drives-up-housing-costs

 

Capitalism Hits Home: Positive Changes: Connections & Community Development – February 8, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAeUMRpx1ts

 

Seven companies billed Medicare over $2 billion for catheters that patients never ordered. Doctors and health groups suspect a major scam.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/health/medicare-billing-scam-catheters.html

 

Mutant wolves roaming Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have developed cancer-resilient abilities: study

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mutant-wolves-roaming-chernobyl-exclusion-032300787.html

 

We now have the most detailed description of the human brain ever | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2397366-we-now-have-the-most-detailed-description-of-the-human-brain-ever/

 

Therapy dogs and school wellbeing: A qualitative study - ScienceDirect

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1558787823001107#:~:text=This%20study%20indicates%20that%20therapy,therapy%20dogs%20during%20their%20interactions

 

AI is evolving for its own benefit, not ours | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25934573-800-ai-is-evolving-for-its-own-benefit-not-ours/

 

Unleash your immunity - ScienceDirect

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407923002105

 

How we get high: Unlocking the secrets of the endocannabinoid system | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2394424-how-we-get-high-unlocking-the-secrets-of-the-endocannabinoid-system/

 

How to tell if you have a weak or strong immune system | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734243-100-how-to-tell-if-your-immune-system-is-weak-or-strong/#:~:text=If%20you%20tend%20to%20become,t%20functioning%20as%20they%20should

 

WHAT EFFECT DID LOCKDOWNS HAVE ON CHILDREN'S IMMUNE SYSTEMS? - PMC

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9897809/#:~:text=The%20Irish%20study%20found%20that,by%20the%20age%20of%201

 

How CRISPR therapy could cure everything from cancer to infertility | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25834460-200-how-crispr-therapy-could-cure-everything-from-cancer-to-infertility/

 

ARE THERE SEX DIFFERENCES IN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM? - PMC

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9897808/

 

The food and drink that really can boost your immune system | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734243-600-the-food-and-drink-that-really-can-boost-your-immune-system/

 

The AI immune system that's changing our understanding of human health | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734243-700-the-ai-immune-system-thats-changing-our-understanding-of-human-health/

 

How the immune system changes with age and why | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734243-800-how-the-immune-system-changes-with-age-and-why/

 

SCIENCE & HEALTHNew Study Shows How Marijuana Compounds Like Cannabinoids, Terpenes And Flavonoids Interact For Medical Benefits

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/new-study-shows-how-marijuana-compounds-like-cannabinoids-terpenes-and-flavonoids-interact-for-medical-benefits/

 

A Closer Look at Stress and Cancer Outcomes | Cancer Today

https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/a-closer-look-at-stress-and-cancer-outcomes/#:~:text=Surgical%20oncologist%20Samilia%20Obeng%2DGyasi,with%20higher%20mortality%20in%20cancer.&text=IT'S%20WIDELY%20KNOWN%20that%20chronic%20stress%20takes%20a%20toll%20on%20health

 

CDK4/6 Inhibitors in Early-stage Breast Cancer | Cancer Today

https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/cdk4-6-inhibitors-in-early-stage-breast-cancer/

 

A Less Radical Approach | Cancer Today

https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/a-less-radical-approach/

 

Ultrasound Device Opens Blood-brain Barrier | Cancer Today

https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/ultrasound-device-opens-blood-brain-barrier/

 

Is Immunotherapy Safe in People With HIV? | Cancer Today

https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/is-immunotherapy-safe-in-people-with-hiv/

 

The Reality of Chemo Brain | Cancer Today

https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/the-reality-of-chemo-brain/

 

Falling Short | Cancer Today

https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/falling-short/

 

Taking Action to Support Cancer Research | Cancer Today

https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/taking-action-to-support-cancer-research/

 

Controlling Peripheral Neuropathy | Cancer Today

https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/controlling-peripheral-neuropathy/

 

Moving the Needle on Metastatic Breast Cancer | Cancer Today

https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/moving-the-needle-on-metastatic-breast-cancer/

 

Progress in Rare Cancers | Cancer Today

https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/progress-in-rare-cancers/

 

An Ocean of Opportunity.  A diet that incorporates fatty fish could help reduce your risk for certain cancers.

https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/an-ocean-of-opportunity/

 

Music to the Ears | Cancer Today

https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/music-to-the-ears/

 

How can palliative care and hospice services support a person with cancer? | Cancer Today

https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/how-can-palliative-care-and-hospice-services-support-a-person-with-cancer/

 

Cancer’s Economic Impact | Cancer Today

https://www.cancertodaymag.org/winter-2023-2024/cancers-economic-impact/

 

Economic Update: The U.S. Tax System: Designed For Economic Injustice – February 12, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-GvgQuheUs

 

Pennsylvania Governor Says Lawmakers ‘Don’t Even Have A Choice’ But To Legalize Marijuana As Other States Move Ahead – February 12, 2024

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/pennsylvania-governor-says-lawmakers-dont-even-have-a-choice-but-to-legalize-marijuana-as-other-states-move-ahead/

 

Candy Cartel: How Candy Companies Are Cashing In | Robert Reich – February 13, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMnSU-JlFnQ

 

Smoking impairs the adaptive immune system, even long after the smoker quits.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/smoking-may-compromise-immune-health-even-years-after-quitting/

 

Global Capitalism: Europe 2024: Disunity, Decline, Despair [February 2024] – February 14, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OB4p4_Sr0w

 

Headlights are blinding us. Here’s why it’s mostly an American problem

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/15/cars/headlights-tech-adaptable-high-beams-cars?cid=ios_app

 

State warns of ‘major’ vacancies in agency overseeing services for vulnerable populations

https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/state-warns-major-vacancies-agency-overseeing-services-vulnerable-populations

 

Blood asks Pillen to respond to ‘worsening’ violence, worker safety at Nebraska state psychiatric hospital

https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/blood-asks-pillen-respond-worsening-violence-worker-safety-state-psychiatric-hospital

 

Economic Update: Capitalism and Tax Injustice – February 19, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDNpPob-DJU

 

The Biden administration awarded $1.5 billion to a New York-based chipmaker, GlobalFoundries.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/19/business/economy/biden-administration-1-5-billion-chipmaker-globalfoundries.html

 

Why the Corporate Tax Bracket Should Go Back to 52%.  It’s time to again tax the rich, be they individuals or giant corporations, to restore the American middle class and return our nation to the vitality that, before the Reagan Revolution, was normal...

https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-the-corporate-tax-bracket-should-467

 

‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything.  The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?

https://www.ft.com/content/6fb1602d-a08b-4a8c-bac0-047b7d64aba5

 

Today is the BIGGEST filing in Starbucks Workers United history - join us in welcoming the TWENTY-ONE new stores announcing their organizing efforts together!!!

https://mailchi.mp/fe0e1b86a6d4/is-starbucks-chocolate-a-dirty-trick-or-a-clean-treat-14099002?e=8fd44287f5

 

Biden cancels $1.2B in student loan debt for borrowers on income-driven repayment plan

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/biden-cancels-1-2b-in-student-loan-debt-for-borrowers-on-income-driven-repayment-plan/ar-BB1iDuMc

 

Ask Prof Wolff Live - February 21, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xGbMPa-Wbk

 

The Ins and Outs of Inflammation — and Why It’s So Important to the Aging Process

https://katiecouric.com/health/aging/inflammaging-inflammation-aging/

 

Trickling Down: How the Anti-Tax Movement Hijacked America (with Michael Graetz).  Just as reactionary legal activists slowly and methodically captured the Court, greedy, selfish antitax zealots have slowly and methodically imposed their will on federal tax policy.

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/trickling-down-how-the-anti-tax-movement

 

Artificial Intelligence Solves Problems We Don’t Have

https://jacobin.com/2024/01/artificial-intelligence-solves-problems-we-dont-have

 

Conversations With Friends

https://jacobin.com/2024/01/conversations-with-friends/?ref=mc.news

 

The Silicon-Tongued Devil

https://jacobin.com/2024/01/the-silicon-tongued-devil

 

Automated Intimacy

https://jacobin.com/2024/01/automated-intimacy

 

Detroit Techno’s Dance with Death

https://jacobin.com/2024/01/detroit-technos-dance-with-death

 

FBI issues new warning about QR code scams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU_y85NlSeY

 

The race to develop male birth control.  New contraception is being conceived

https://theweek.com/health/male-birth-control

 

Bidenomics Is Still Working Very Well

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/opinion/biden-economy.html

 

The Political Failure of Bidenomics

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/opinion/bidenomics-working-class.html

 

WEB Dubois; 11/1/1959 "Life in Socialist Lands: China". Address to The Community Church of Boston.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yV5KbAzjVY&t=93s

 

Community Church of Boston

https://www.youtube.com/c/thecommunitychurchofbostonofficial

 

Democrat SHATTERS The GOP's 'Anti-Woke' Stunts – February 25, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOX6-kUaod4

 

How love impacts your health.  Turns out you actually can die of a broken heart

https://theweek.com/health/how-love-impacts-health

 

China's slowing economy, Xi's government tactics leave American investors wary

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-crackdown-on-american-business-leaves-investors-in-us-wary-60-minutes-transcript/

 

Economic Update: Breaking Up With Capitalism – February 26, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eRBl7quf1g

 

Too many older workers are scared to death that they will never be able to retire... – February 26, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KsD8oarmbE

 

Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary ‘Excited’ To Regulate Marijuana Under Governor’s Plan, Saying State Is ‘Really Good At Growing Things’

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/pennsylvania-agriculture-secretary-excited-to-regulate-marijuana-under-governors-plan-saying-state-is-really-good-at-growing-things/

 

Capital One Is Buying Discover Financial for $35 Billion.  The deal combines two of the largest credit-card companies in the U.S.

https://www.wsj.com/finance/capital-one-is-buying-discover-financial-sources-say-a7c43dd2

 

HELP Committee Hearing: The Retirement Crisis in America – February 28, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5dVz9Lyupo

 

Fox Chase Cancer Center Welcomes Charnita Zeigler-Johnson

https://www.foxchase.org/news/2022-10-10-fox-chase-cancer-center-welcomes-charnita-zeigler-johnson

 

Career Speaker: Charnita Zeigler-Johnson

https://www.foxchase.org/research-training/career-path-education-series/career-speaker-charnita-zeigler-johnson

 

Charnita Zeigler-Johnson, PhD, MPH

https://www.foxchase.org/charnita-zeigler-johnson

 

A former US surgeon general says he went to the ER for dehydration and ended up with a $5,000 bill. He called the healthcare system 'broken.'

https://www.businessinsider.com/former-surgeon-general-medical-bill-shows-broken-healthcare-system-2024-2

 

THCV Increases Energy And Motivation Without Marijuana’s ‘Munchies’ Effect, Double-Blind Study Finds – February 27, 2024

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/thcv-increases-energy-and-motivation-without-marijuanas-munchies-effect-double-blind-study-finds/

 

NEWSLETTER Florida cannabis potency cap dead (Newsletter: February 28, 2024)

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/florida-cannabis-potency-cap-dead-newsletter-february-28-2024/

 

Capitalism Hits Home: World Transformations Have Hit Our Homes Hard – February 29, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH7bUs-60yk

 

Biden orders US investigation of national security risks posed by Chinese-made ‘smart cars’

https://apnews.com/article/china-electric-vehicles-privacy-personal-data-biden-844f2406512b94212ee1a92a61e5a33a

 

Historic Washington Crossing Bridge to be replaced

https://mercerme.com/historic-washington-crossing-bridge-to-be-replaced/

 

Who Really Stands With American Workers?  On economics, Donald Trump is just Mitch McConnell with tariffs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/opinion/biden-trump-unions.html

 

Doctors Said She Had Anxiety — She Actually Had One of the Rarest Cancers

https://katiecouric.com/health/cancer/rare-kidney-cancer/

 

Senator Christine M. Tartaglione Labor Report: March 1, 2024

https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100167946.863.219&gen=1

 

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Boost Housing Supply and Lower Housing Costs

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/02/29/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-new-actions-to-boost-housing-supply-and-lower-housing-costs/

 

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Takes Action to Address Risks of Autos from China and Other Countries of Concern

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/02/29/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-takes-action-to-address-risks-of-autos-from-china-and-other-countries-of-concern/

 

FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Action to Lower Child Care Costs for More than 100,000 Families

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/02/29/fact-sheet-vice-president-harris-announces-action-to-lower-child-care-costs-for-more-than-100000-families/

 

FACT SHEET: President Biden Issues Executive Order to Protect Americans’ Sensitive Personal Data

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/02/28/fact-sheet-president-biden-issues-sweeping-executive-order-to-protect-americans-sensitive-personal-data/

 

PhRMA Funnels Millions to Groups Fighting Drug Pricing Reforms.  The pharma lobby gave more than $16 million in 2022 to advocacy groups, many of them ostensibly “grassroots,” that are battling the Medicare drug price negotiations now underway.

https://readsludge.com/2024/03/01/phrma-funnels-millions-to-groups-fighting-drug-pricing-reforms/

 

Is Marijuana Bad for Health? Here’s What We Know So Far.  Marijuana’s health impacts—good and bad—are coming into focus

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-marijuana-bad-for-health-heres-what-we-know-so-far/

 

A new mom died after giving birth at a Boston hospital. Was corporate greed to blame?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-new-mom-died-after-giving-birth-at-a-boston-hospital-was-corporate-greed-to-blame/

 

Economic Update: Capitalism, Gender, And A Split Society – March 4, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-3W4nBjInc

 

After years of declining vaccination rates, Britain is experiencing a measles outbreak.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/world/europe/uk-measles-outbreak.html

 

Monopoly in Milk: The End of a Family Dairy Farm.  The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream

https://hartmannreport.com/p/monopoly-in-milk-the-end-of-a-family

 

Safety of sildenafil (Viagra) in extremely premature infants: a phase I trial

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41372-021-01261-w

 

A Harvard Champion of Affirmative Action Accepts Reality.  As the university’s longtime president, Derek Bok fought for racial preferences. Now, the nonagenarian icon of the educational establishment not only bows to the monumental Supreme Court ruling against Harvard but also offers wise ideas for making campuses truly diverse.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/03/05/a-harvard-champion-of-affirmative-action-accepts-reality/

 

Based on Incomes, Americans Are a Lot Better Off Under Biden Than Under Trump.  Despite a spurt of high inflation that has dramatically receded, Joltin’ Joe’s economy is far more robust than that of his oft-indicted predecessor.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/02/12/based-on-incomes-americans-are-a-lot-better-off-under-biden-than-they-were-with-trump/

 

Democratic Presidents Have Better Economic Performances than Republican Ones  The facts are clear when it comes to real wage gains or job creation.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/03/01/democratic-presidents-have-better-economic-performance-than-republican-ones/

 

The Human Toll of Philips’ Massive CPAP Recall: With Every Breath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkE8JIc5E0A

 

Ask Prof Wolff Live - March 6, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIupIi-rlKI

 

How 90% Of The World’s Pure Cinnamon Is Produced In Sri Lanka | Big Business | Business Insider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhO5fKkHTH8

 

These Cancers Were Beyond Treatment—But Might Not Be Anymore

https://www.hoag.org/articles/these-cancers-were-beyond-treatment-but-might-not-be-anymore/

 

The Emperor of All Maladies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_of_All_Maladies

 

The School Issues We’re Battling Over Aren’t the Ones That Matter

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/opinion/book-banning-crt-education.html

 

How to Fix the Crisis of Trust in Higher Education

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/opinion/college-enrollment.html

 

Today, we have a rapidly aging population and millions of seniors live in poverty. It’s time to act. – March 8, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8XZZfD2aS0

 

Iowa Has Robins in February and We Can Barely Water the Hogs – March 4, 2024

https://katiecouric.com/news/opinion/art-cullen-storm-lake-iowa-climate-change-immigration/

 

Covid Lockdowns Kept Her From Her Doctors — Then She Got Colon Cancer – February 29, 2024

https://katiecouric.com/health/cancer/colon-cancer-because-of-covid-lockdowns/

 

Unionizing the Ivy League.  Harvard faculty and the Dartmouth basketball team are organizing — what about your workplace? – March 5, 2024

https://the.ink/p/unionizing-the-ivy-league

 

Senator Christine M. Tartaglione Labor Report: March 8, 2024

https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100167986.1346.910&gen=1

 

Inequality is *the* fundamental issue facing our world. Oxfam America tells us why. – March 10, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VHhjf6XaF0

 

Joe Biden ‘deserves more credit’ for ‘historic’ economic results: Pete Buttigieg – March 10, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCkhJg-Sruo

 

Economic Update: Debris From A Declining Empire – March 11, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeBkEHmc4-U

 

Two Ways US Government Officials Create Homelessness: One Gradual, the Other Instant.  In Gaza, US-supplied weapons made thousands of Palestinian families instantly homeless. Domestically, policies and laws enacted by politicians gradually created homelessness.

https://www.laprogressive.com/housing-and-homlessness/two-ways-us-government-officials-create-homelessness

 

Join me LIVE for a hearing to discuss why we must move to a 32-hour workweek – with no loss in pay. 

Senator Bernie Sanders – March 14, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0fYQkQBOGc

 

Capitalism Hits Home: How Do We Change For A More Hopeful Egalitarian America? – March 14, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8HU_09fYDo

 

Opinion Today: Medical injustice, disguised as paperwork

https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/render?campaign_id=39&emc=edit_ty_20240314&first_send=0&instance_id=117578&isViewInBrowser=true&nl=opinion-today&paid_regi=0&regi_id=168579403&segment_id=160776&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2F3e088afc-5201-5534-aa04-f0c7d6ca989d&user_id=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496

 

Healing Us - Official Trailer 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcmcub3NQaA

 

Without One German Product, Modern Civilization Would Collapse – 1 year ago

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

 

One Company Makes ALL Our Technology (and it's in Trouble) – 1 year ago

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

 

The Hidden Toll of Surviving Layoffs.  The workers who remain deal with stress, guilt, and a changed workplace.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/03/the-hidden-toll-of-surviving-layoffs/677763/

 

Hospital Consolidation Kills.  Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream"

https://hartmannreport.com/p/hospital-consolidation-kills

 

New York Times explains how the process of selling a home may change.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/16/realestate/buy-sell-house.html

 

Economic Update: Patriarchy and Capitalism – March 18, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBiX9o171pE

 

Why Americans Deserve a 4-Day Workweek | Robert Reich on MSNBC – March 18, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvJ7w2OviWk

 

Bernie Sanders CRUSHES Trickle-Down Economics Apologist – March 18, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4pT1xvofvs

 

China’s new AI Child Tong Tong: cute or creepy? – 2 weeks ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6eeRIGbGso

 

Teamsters VP 'Pretty Certain' Biden Will Get Union's Endorsement After Meeting.  John Palmer praised President Biden's accomplishments for labor and trashed Trump's anti-union record.

https://www.meidastouch.com/news/teamsters-vp-pretty-certain-biden-will-get-unions-endorsement

 

Ask Prof Wolff - March 20, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65AKhdA7WUk

 

You won't believe what Norway just found! – March 8, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xSs2DPIBQQ

 

Catherine, Princess of Wales, announces she has cancer.  She says she was told after her surgery in January that her abdominal condition was not cancerous, but then the diagnosis changed.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/22/catherine-princess-of-wales-announces-she-has-cancer/

 

Senator Christine M. Tartaglione Labor Report: March 22, 2024

https://enews.senatortartaglione.com/mail/util.cfm?gpiv=2100168028.740.188&gen=1

 

The D.E.A. Needs to Stay Out of Medicine.  Restrictions on pain medications are hurting patients who are suffering.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/opinion/dea-opioids-restrictions-overdoses.html

 

Richard Wolff: Why Marx? Why Now? – March 22, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY_WAYykjx0

 

Pharmacogenomics: What does it mean for your health?

https://www.cdc.gov/genomics/disease/pharma.htm

 

Economic Update: How Capitalism Distributes Power – March 25, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rr2p8Nn8Dk

 

AllStore: Working for Peanuts.  What happens when big-box store workers try to fight the Man.

https://hollywoodprogressive.com/stage/allstore

 

Experimenting with Tribally-Owned Internet.  18 percent of the residents of reservations lack home Internet service, and the share of households on tribal land with Internet access is 21 percentage points lower than neighboring non-tribal areas.

https://www.laprogressive.com/firstpeoples/tribally-owned-internet

 

LA Homelessness, Traffic Jams Getting Steadily Worse.  Private profitability, not public benefit, now determines LA’s future, similar to other large US cities.

https://www.laprogressive.com/los-angeles-2/traffic-jams-getting-steadily-worse

 

Obamacare Is in Grave Danger, Again.  Republicans seem determined to destroy the Affordable Care Act.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/opinion/trump-obamacare.html

 

Medics design AI tool to predict side-effects in breast cancer patients.  Trials in UK, France and the Netherlands indicate tool can predict if patient will experience problems from surgery and radiotherapy

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/20/medics-design-ai-tool-to-predict-side-effects-in-breast-cancer-patients

 

The lowest-paid U.S. workers are seeing their wages surge faster than any other group of earners

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-lowest-paid-u-s-workers-are-seeing-their-wages-surge-it-still-might-not-be-enough-7ff7d96f

 

Fastest wage growth over the last four years among historically disadvantaged groups.  Low-wage workers’ wages surged after decades of slow growth

https://www.epi.org/publication/swa-wages-2023/?mc_cid=4cb962c904&mc_eid=bbd855ee75

 

Dairy Queen announces Summer Blizzard Treat Menu with sweet buy-one-get-one deal

https://livingonthecheap.com/dairy-queen-summer-blizzard-menu-bogo-free-deal/

 

Why the ‘Great Recession’ never came | DW Business – March 30, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr9qt836A18

 

Bidenomics Is Making China Angry. That’s OK.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/opinion/biden-trump-china.html

 

What happens when you send cancer into space? | BBC News – 2 weeks ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5ONVyAXn1w

 

Economic Update: Resurgent Labor Organizing In The South – April 1, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT74ONjMvKg

 

This is Why Rich People Hate the IRS | Robert Reich – April 2, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF3OsZf_hto

 

The psychological poverty trap: How lack of money impacts decision-making, procrastination and loss of control – March 26, 2024

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-psychological-poverty-lack-money-impacts.html

 

Bernie: The Podcast | Episode 1 - The Political Revolution – April 3, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBEpS9YjH1U

 

Bernie: The Podcast | Episode 2 – Oligarchy – April 3, 2024

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

 

Bernie: The Podcast | Episode 3 - Unions and the Future of Work – April of 2024

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

 

Bernie: The Podcast | Episode 4 - The Media Crisis – April 22, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRRXu4iSahw

 

Unions and the Future of Work – April 3, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3pzSbztMtM

 

Live from the White House – April 4, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynY2Bx_vGtM

 

Another Great Jobs Report - The Economy Is Strong, Joe Biden Is A Successful President

https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/another-great-jobs-report-the-economy

 

What Dollar General Doesn’t Want You To Know – 2 weeks ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE5THiD-kTk

 

U.S. Money Supply Is Doing Something No One Has Witnessed Since the Great Depression, and It Foreshadows a Big Move to Come in Stocks

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-money-supply-doing-something-090600755.html

 

Unbundling Cable, Phones, and TV.  Your weekly excerpt from one of my bestselling books. This week: "The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream"

https://hartmannreport.com/p/unbundling-cable-phones-and-tv

 

Covering a university that combines diversity and excellence — as well as Donald Trump, Ukraine and competitive quizzing. – April 8, 2024

https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/render?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20240408&instance_id=119603&isViewInBrowser=true&nl=the-morning&paid_regi=2&productCode=NN&regi_id=168579403&segment_id=162887&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%2Fnewsletter%2F1af131e2-bb87-5cbf-99b5-86efaa784919&user_id=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496

 

Economic Update: The Myth of Black Buying Power – April 8, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuyrN7cfdxM

 

Ask Prof Wolff - April 8, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-eylUiDsAw

 

President Biden Announces New Plans to Deliver Student Debt Relief to Over 30 Million Americans – April 8, 2024

https://mailchi.mp/f16a3262350f/opso-weekly-newsletter-2457181?e=6996f56ad1

 

Is It Inflation? Or Is It Greedflation? | Robert Reich – April 9, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj7WEbh4e0M

 

Alternatives to Capitalism-Imperialism: Challenging Today’s Neocolonial Disorder

https://mailchi.mp/imhojournal/discussions-on-marxism-humanism-and-decolonial-thought-9196566?e=4e45f560d5

 

Pennsylvania Lawmakers File Marijuana Legalization Bill Ahead Of Committee Hearing This Week – April 10, 2024

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/pennsylvania-lawmakers-file-marijuana-legalization-bill-ahead-of-committee-hearing-this-week/

 

NEWSLETTERFeds seize state-licensed cannabis (Newsletter: April 9, 2024)

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/feds-seize-state-licensed-cannabis-newsletter-april-9-2024/

 

Crews Begin Removing Shipping Containers Off the Dali, Ship that Collapsed Key Bridge

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/04/08/crews-begin-removing-shipping-containers-off-dali-ship-collapsed-key-bridge.html

 

THIS Therapy Lengthens Telomere By 100%?? - Reported By A 83 Year Old Doctor – April 1, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMtC40HAeoY

 

For Puerto Rico, True Decolonization Must Mean Independence.  The Puerto Rico Status Act nominally presents a choice on the archipelago’s political future, but U.S. impositions will never offer a path to liberation. With a people’s education campaign, new autonomous directions are possible.

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QMV9CWGBC7RPYVSXDNJH/full?target=10.1080/10714839.2024.2323395

 

Cloud Capped Star

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3051894/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_pl

 

From the Genocide in Palestine and Ukraine to the Fascist Threat: Working Toward a Revolutionary, Marxist-Humanist Organizational Response–by Peter Hudis et al.

https://imhojournal.org/articles/from-the-genocide-in-palestine-and-ukraine-to-the-fascist-threat-working-toward-a-revolutionary-marxist-humanist-organizational-response/

 

Why are food prices out of control? | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich ft. Michael Pollan – April 13, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y-Qu0a0MZA

 

WATCH: Crockett ROASTS Ivermectin-Toting GOP Quack – April 13, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w27uKdZANic

 

Economic Update: A Sea Change In US Labor's Militancy – April 15, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18FoE3IiNYg

 

Why a Vietnamese billionaire has been sentenced to death – April 12, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqUQ6HYIjiM

 

“I Want My Taxes to…”  Reflections for Tax Day – April 10, 2024

https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/i-want-my-taxes-to

 

Rents Are Too High Nationwide: A Renters' Tax Credit Would Help.  A monthly tax credit that capped housing costs at 30 percent of income could keep millions of Americans—including me—in our homes.

https://www.laprogressive.com/housing-and-homlessness/rents-are-too-high-nationwide

 

Capitalism Hits Home: The United Nation World Happiness Report – April 18, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x4EJZenzmc

 

Spoiler alert: Greed. Greed. Greed. – April 18, 2024

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

 

Make Giving Back Your Second Act.  Get involved and make a positive difference in your community. AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers serve with organizations dedicated to helping others.

https://americorps.gov/serve/americorps-seniors

 

SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.  SNAP changes lives. You can too.

https://careandshare.org/get-involved/volunteer/snap-volunteer/

 

Disaster Relief Programs: Volunteer & Donate; Train & Educate

https://www.ready.gov/get-involved

 

Volkswagen workers vote for union in Tennessee — a major win for organized labor – April 20, 2024

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vw-volkswagen-uaw/

 

I don't accept this corporate and right-wing line. – April 21, 2024

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

 

Economic Update: A Critique of Government Spending – April 22, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5rtUZlGABo

 

The Small-Business Tyrant Has a Favorite Political Party – April 23, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/opinion/the-small-business-tyrant-has-a-favorite-political-party.html

 

Why Homelessness Stalks America Like the Grim Reaper.  Both homelessness & inflation are the result of America allowing housing to become a commodity that can be traded & speculated in by financial markets & overseas investors...

https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-homelessness-stalks-america-like-866

 

Is the Supreme Court about to criminalize homelessness?  The court will decide if bans on outdoor camping are 'cruel and unusual'

https://theweek.com/politics/supreme-court-criminalize-homelessness

 

How do we fix the Steward Health Care disaster?  Cerberus and de la Torre should put their money where their mouths are. – April 20, 2024

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/20/opinion/how-to-fix-steward-health-care/

 

The Racial Wealth Monopoly.  Your weekly excerpt from one of my bestselling books. This week: "The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream" – April 21, 2024

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-racial-wealth-monopoly

 

After Long Delay, Marijuana Social Equity Fund In Massachusetts Awards $2.3 Million In Grants To Cannabis Businesses  - April 22, 2024

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/after-long-delay-marijuana-social-equity-fund-in-massachusetts-awards-2-3-million-in-grants-to-cannabis-businesses/

 

Fact Sheet: Vice President Harris Announces Historic Advancements in Long-Term Care to Support the Care Economy – April 22, 2024

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/22/fact-sheet-vice-president-harris-announces-historic-advancements-in-long-term-care-to-support-the-care-economy/

 

Star Trek Actress Kitty Swink Had a 4% Survival Rate After Pancreatic Cancer — It's Been 20 Years (Exclusive).  "My job now is to give others hope," the actress and activist said

https://people.com/star-trek-actress-kitty-swink-pancreatic-cancer-survival-exclusive-8630002

 

Skepticism Is Healthy, but in Medicine, It Can Be Dangerous.  Skepticism and distrust of health practitioners is on the rise. How are doctors supposed to restore patient trust?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opinion/medical-skepticism-doctors-trust.html

 

Sanders locks onto next drug pricing target: Ozempic – April 25, 2024

https://thehill.com/newsletters/health-care/4622412-sanders-locks-onto-next-drug-pricing-target-ozempic/

 

FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces New Workforce Hubs to Train and Connect American Workers to Good Jobs Created by the President’s Investing in America Agenda – April 25, 2024

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/25/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-new-workforce-hubs-to-train-and-connect-american-workers-to-good-jobs-created-by-the-presidents-investing-in-america-agenda/

 

A Long Way Down.  Lots of people are trying to come to terms with narrowed horizons, cramped futures…and they’re pretty pissed. – April 25, 2024

https://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/a-long-way-down

 

Southern Autoworkers aren’t Listening to the GOP’s BS Any More.  The problem for Republicans is that unions are “democracy in the workplace,” and the GOP hates democracy as a matter of principle... – April 25, 2024

https://hartmannreport.com/p/southern-autoworkers-arent-listening-50c

 

G20 Ministers Get Behind a Global Wealth Tax on Billionaires.  A 2 percent levy, they say, could raise $313 billion a year to ease poverty and climate disparities. – April 26, 2024

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/g20-ministers-global-wealth-tax-billionaires-gabriel-zucman/

 

University of Texas Faculty Strike - Alabama Amazon Workers Could Vote Again – April 26, 2024

https://mailchi.mp/paydayreport.com/university-of-texas-faculty-strike-alabama-amazon-workers-could-vote-again?e=fb65b09caf

 

Cannabis Use Linked to Epigenetic Changes, Study Reveals – April 26, 2024

https://www.sciencealert.com/cannabis-use-linked-to-epigenetic-changes-study-reveals

 

China Dumps $74,000,000,000 in US Treasuries in One Year As Two BRICS Nations Say They've Abandoned Dollar in Mutual Trade - April 26, 2024

https://dailyhodl.com/2024/04/26/china-dumps-74000000000-in-us-treasuries-in-one-year-as-two-brics-nations-say-theyve-abandoned-dollar-in-mutual-trade/

 

According to data from the OECD, American workers are putting in almost 60 hours a year more than the weighted average for OECD nations… a benchmark that workers from countries in the European Union are already ~180 hours shy of.  – April 26, 2024

https://sherwood.news/world/nicolai-tangen-says-americans-just-work-harder/

 

Monopolies over Labor.  Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream"

https://hartmannreport.com/p/monopolies-over-labor

 

Economic Update: The Phenomenon of China – April 29, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6LBNDKTk8Q

 

It’s not a scam: What Philly homeowners should know about water and sewage line warranties.  Homeowners are responsible for the exterior plumbing from their home to the street’s water and sewer mains, and most home insurance policies don't cover it.

https://www.inquirer.com/business/plumbing-water-sewage-line-warranty-20240429.html

 

Joseph Stiglitz and the Meaning of Freedom.  The famous liberal economist wants to take back the language of liberty from the right.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/joseph-stiglitz-and-the-meaning-of-freedom

 

Should Billionaires Exist? | Robert Reich – April 30, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTAlWw9Hbcg

 

How capitalism enslaved us all | Grace Blakeley interview – 1 month ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLPGrdRid7Y

 

Global Capitalism: On Labor - A May Day 2024 Special [May 1st, 2024]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2w7q_ssCZc

 

We Have the Power to Rein in Greedy Corporate Landlords.  A broad coalition of housing justice groups, social justice organizations, labor unions, and civic leaders have banded together to pass the Justice for Renters Act in California.

https://www.laprogressive.com/housing-and-homlessness/greedy-corporate-landlords

 

Progressives Must Put Medicare for All Back on the Agenda.  We need to put single payer back on the table, loudly, proudly, and strategically.

https://www.laprogressive.com/healthcare/medicare-for-all-back-on-the-agenda

 

New study challenges long-held assumption about cancer – April 29, 2024

https://www.freethink.com/health/cancer-without-genetic-mutations

 

An Oil Price-Fixing Conspiracy Caused 27% of All Inflation Increases in 2021.  The FTC just found evidence that American oil companies colluded with the Saudi government to hike gas prices, costing the average family $3,000 last year. The question is, what can we do about it?

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-oil-price-fixing-conspiracy-caused

 

Proposed federal marijuana changes could reshape the cannabis industry - CBS San Francisco – April 30, 2024

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/proposed-federal-marijuana-changes-could-reshape-the-cannabis-industry/

 

Purge Of Disability Benefits Is Happening – Late-April, 2024

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

 

The New Sundown Towns.  As Grants Pass, Oregon—and the nation—await a Supreme Court ruling on just how far cities can police the homeless, a volunteer mayor and her unhoused constituents try to weather the backlash. – April 30, 2024

https://newrepublic.com/article/181036/new-sundown-towns-grants-pass-v-johnson

 

Two More Colleges Announce They’re Closing As Pandemic’s Costs Linger – May 1, 2024

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2024/05/01/two-more-small-colleges-announce-theyre-closing/

 

Woman hits a nerve with millions as she reacts with disbelief at JP Morgan CEO's comments about average American's quality of life – May 1, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13373115/jpmorgan-chase-ceo-jamie-dimon-podcast-comments-draw-backlash.html

 

New era for pot regulation leaves old problem: Many cannabis companies can’t find a bank | WANE 15 – May 1, 2024

https://www.wane.com/top-stories/new-era-for-pot-regulation-leaves-old-problem-many-cannabis-companies-cant-find-a-bank/

 

Pennsylvania college No. 2 most expensive in U.S. – May 2, 2024

https://www.pennlive.com/life/2024/05/pennsylvania-college-no-2-most-expensive-in-us.html

 

Majority Of Americans Say Marijuana Banking Bill Would Promote Public Safety And Help Underserved Communities, Financial Association Poll Finds - Marijuana Moment – May 2, 2024

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/majority-of-americans-say-marijuana-banking-bill-would-promote-public-safety-and-help-underserved-communities-financial-association-poll-finds/

 

Less for Labor Means More for CEOs.  Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream"

https://hartmannreport.com/p/less-for-labor-means-more-for-ceos

 

Economic Update: Uneven Development a Key Problem of Capitalism – May 6, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMu3Xvntx3c

 

Marxist Richard Wolff on China: Why no talk of class? – May 6, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yJP6MP6IUo

 

Are Billionaires Simply Money Addicts - Like Scrooge McDuck?  Why are the GOP and billionaires so committed to gutting worker protections while increasing the wealth of the top one percent?

https://hartmannreport.com/p/are-billionaires-simply-money-addicts-a76

 

How Wall Street Priced You Out of a Home | Robert Reich – May 7, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9TOGxDJ0TE

 

A new pronouncement on animal consciousness should change people’s views on eating meat—but it won’t.  Recent findings suggest, more than ever, that nonhuman animals are capable of suffering. Scientists are begging us to listen. – May 7, 2024

https://www.fastcompany.com/91119401/a-new-study-on-animal-consciousness-should-change-peoples-views-on-eating-meat-but-it-wont

 

An Oil Price-Fixing Conspiracy Caused 27% of All Inflation Increases in 2021.  The FTC just found evidence that American oil companies colluded with the Saudi government to hike gas prices, costing the average family $3,000 last year. The question is, what can we do about it?

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-oil-price-fixing-conspiracy-caused

 

Global Capitalism: A Marxist Critique of Capitalism for 2024 [May 2024]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBLJ7UAqXSo

 

The Family Does It Work? Did It Ever? – May 9, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAxpJfP6I4M

 

Is higher education worth the cost? New study says it depends on the school.  In California and the Bay Area, Stanford University rose to the top of the list, providing students with the most bang for their buck and essentially no cost of attendance. But fewer low- and moder…

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/05/09/is-higher-education-worth-the-cost-new-study-says-it-depends-on-the-school/

 

Paid sick leave sticks after many pandemic protections vanish – May 9, 2024

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paid-sick-leave-sticks-after-many-pandemic-protections-vanish-kff/

 

Is this for real?! | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich – May 11, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avk3c7XkmNE

 

Breakthrough therapies at Stanford are saving lives. Can we afford them?  This is the future of medicine, experts agree. But the cost of this new class of medical treatment is raising alarm about availability and affordability, even as its potential grows.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/05/12/breakthrough-therapies-at-stanford-are-saving-lives-can-we-afford-them/

 

The housing crisis in the U.S. is flipped upside down in Japan, where each home that's occupied could be next to an empty one by 2033 – May 12. 2024

https://fortune.com/2024/05/12/housing-market-crisis-us-vs-japan-vacant-homes-abandoned-properties/

 

OpenAI's Sam Altman Has a New Idea for a Universal Basic Income – May https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-sam-altman-universal-basic-income-idea-compute-gpt-7-2024-5

 

Economic Update: Prospects for a Political Turn Left – May 13, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntv-dtMIqYU

 

Ask Prof Wolff Live - May 15, 2024 with Jared Yates Sexton – May 15, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SweHxEPu3s

 

Alarming Virus Evolution – Scientists Identify First-Ever Mammal-to-Human Bird Flu Case – May 16, 2024

https://scitechdaily.com/alarming-virus-evolution-scientists-identify-first-ever-mammal-to-human-bird-flu-case/

 

Amazon raised warehouse wages to $15 an hour 5 years ago. Today, half of workers surveyed told researchers they struggle to afford food or rent | Fortune – May 16, 2024

https://fortune.com/2024/05/16/amazon-warehouse-wages-15-hour-half-workers-surveyed-researchers-struggle-afford-food-rent/

 

Scientists Examined 50 Years Of Tax Cuts For The Rich - Their Shocking Conclusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP93Gq-VeqU

 

A Vast, Untapped Source of Lithium Has Just Been Found in The US – May 18, 2024

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-vast-untapped-source-of-lithium-has-just-been-found-in-the-us

 

Economic Update: Roots of a Surging US Labor Movement – May 20, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEU4gnzu-4o

 

What is Biden Doing Right? – May 20, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCor-vvpAeg

 

Trustbusting is as American as apple pie.  Author Matt Stoller on why recalling American history can rally people against the corporate tyrannies of Scrooge McDuck. – May 21, 2024

https://the.ink/p/matt-stoller-antitrust-an-american-value

 

The Looting of Venezuela. How U.S. foreign policy impoverished the country—and boosted corporate profits – May 21, 2024

https://newrepublic.com/article/181217/us-sanctions-venezuela-looting-corporate-profits

 

'Undeniable Wrongdoing': Congressional Democrats Ask DOJ to Investigate Big Oil.  Companies made "public promises to reduce emissions... while privately seeking to lock in continued fossil fuel production for decades into the future," wrote two Democratic leaders who referred the case. – May 22, 2024

https://www.commondreams.org/news/undeniable-wrongdoing-congressional-democrats-ask-doj-to-investigate-big-oil

 

How to Stop War Profiteering.  Weapons contractors are raking in billions from America’s support for Israel and Ukraine. It’s time to rein them in. - May 22, 2024

https://newrepublic.com/article/181289/stop-war-profiteering

 

The day will come when we will succeed in making health care a human right. – May 23, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L40jIrsHF_Y

 

Capitalism Hits Home: Women’s Traditional Labor, Skills and Strengths Are Learned Behaviors – May 23, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeLlvle_ij0

 

Scientists just discovered an enormous lithium reservoir under Pennsylvania – May 23, 2024

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/scientists-just-discovered-an-enormous-lithium-reservoir-under-pennsylvania

 

Daily marijuana use surpasses alcohol consumption, new study finds. Here's what it means for the booze business – May 23, 2024

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/23/daily-marijuana-use-surpasses-alcohol-consumption-new-study-finds.html

 

Senators Launch Probe of Trump's $1 Billion Offer to Big Oil.  "Emboldened by impunity, Mr. Trump and Big Oil are flaunting their indifference to U.S. citizens' economic well-being for all to see, conferring on how to trade campaign cash for policy changes." – May 23, 2024

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trumps-quid-pro-quo

 

Scientists Discover Key Food Nutrients Linked to Slower Brain Aging – May 24, 2024

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-key-food-nutrients-linked-to-slower-brain-aging

 

Rent Control Now!  How Joe Biden can help fix the nation’s chronic housing problem—and win the 2024 election – May 24, 2024

https://newrepublic.com/article/181227/rent-control-now

 

What If Climate Change is Far Worse than Scientists Think? Shocking Evidence – May 25, 2024

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

 

Solution: Break Up the Internet Giants.  Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream" – May 26, 2024

https://hartmannreport.com/p/solution-break-up-the-internet-giants

 

EXCLUSIVE: What is Uber Caregiver? First look at new product launching this summer.  The new feature, Uber Caregiver, can help get loved ones to doctor's appointments by tapping into health insurance benefits.

https://www.today.com/health/news/uber-caregiver-rcna152364

 

Economic Update: New Energies Organizing Unions – May 27, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlrTsv7aXTo

 

DEA Says 'THCA Does Not Meet The Definition' Of Legal Hemp As Congress Weighs Cannabinoid Recriminalization In Farm Bill – May 27, 2024

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/dea-says-thca-does-not-meet-the-definition-of-legal-hemp-as-congress-weighs-cannabinoid-recriminalization-in-farm-bill/

 

There has been a massive redistribution of wealth in America. But it's gone in the wrong direction. – May 28, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClXjPmK3yQQ&t=14s

 

Medicare Advantage: Why Are We Paying for "Sham" Insurance?  So, here we are, handing billions of dollars a month to insurance industry executives so they can buy new Swiss chalets, private jets, and luxury yachts... – May 29, 2024

https://hartmannreport.com/p/medicare-advantage-why-are-we-paying-a86

 

Why Are So Many Americans Misinformed About The Economy?  It’s not just the media’s negativity, a Washington Post columnist insists, but the public’s attraction to bad news – May 30, 2024

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/why-are-so-many-americans-misinformed

 

LIVE with the Sanders Institute – June 2, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmkfHZ5A1CE

 

Economic Update (Special Edition): Exclusive interview with Dr. Cornel West – June 3, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un6AA-_ToWg

 

Homeless advocates gear up for supreme court case decision

https://www.times-standard.com/2024/06/03/homeless-advocates-gear-up-for-supreme-court-case-decision/

 

Fauci Torches “Crazy” MTG for Her Insane Attacks.  The former NIAID head did not hold back against Marjorie Taylor Greene. – June 4, 2024

https://newrepublic.com/post/182211/fauci-crazy-marjorie-taylor-greene-attacks-covid

 

Why Corporations Have More Rights Than People | Robert Reich – June 4, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAIlo3upJHM

 

Going from Democracy… to Plutocracy… and Now to Kleptocracy – June 4, 2024

https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/going-from-democracy-to-plutocracy

 

GOP Congressional Committee Removes D.C. Marijuana Sales Ban And Adds Cannabis Banking Protections In Key Spending Bill – June 4, 2024

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/gop-congressional-committee-removes-d-c-marijuana-sales-ban-and-adds-cannabis-banking-protections-in-key-spending-bill/

 

Richard Wolff on Israel as a Project of Colonial Capitalism – June 4, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUdYqUo4Dwk

 

Democracy Thwarted: Vermont Council Delegates Must Keep Voting Until Results Please AFL Headquarters?  a re-run election that turns the labor council back into a top-down, dysfunctional organization—like it was for decades—will be a setback for labor locally and nationally. – June 5, 2024

https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/democracy-thwarted

 

Solution: Bring Back the Corporate Death Penalty.  Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream" – June 9, 2024

https://hartmannreport.com/p/solution-bring-back-the-corporate

 

South Africa Could Be First Country to Provide Universal Basic Income - Business Insider – June 9, 2024

https://www.businessinsider.com/south-africa-universal-basic-income-anc-2024-6

 

Economic Update: Labor Vs Capital Struggle in US Intensifies – June 10, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh1KcaiVbtc

 

Republicans’ Trickle-Down Revival: Bold Move or Blunder?  Are Americans catching on and increasingly rejecting horses, sparrows, and politicians who try to sell them on more trickle-down tax cuts for the rich? – June 11, 2024

https://hartmannreport.com/p/republicans-trickle-down-revival-819

 

New SSA System Can End Benefits In 2025 – June 12, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/live/Tx4cErUSBTM

 

The Dangerous Myth of Population Growth: How Billionaires Are Leading Us Astray.  So, really, Musk and Bezos are just echoing a thought virus that has infected much of humanity since the early days of evangelical religion and warfare… - June 13, 2024

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-dangerous-myth-of-population

 

Capitalism Hits Home: Voluntary Childlessness Is A Worldwide Trend. Why? – June 13, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBU6fTUg70k

 

Pennsylvania Lawmakers Step Up Push For Marijuana Legalization, With Emphasis On Social Equity – June 13, 2024

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/pennsylvania-lawmakers-step-up-push-for-marijuana-legalization-with-emphasis-on-social-equity/

 

Solution: Ban Preemption Laws Written by Corporations.  Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream" – June 16, 2024

https://hartmannreport.com/p/solution-ban-preemption-laws-written

 

Taking Vitamin D3? This Might Save Your Life – June 17, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ukyja7cpfM

 

Economic Update: The Political Economy Of Tariffs – June 18, 2024

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

 

Dialectic At Work: For Roses and Bread: On Marxism as a Theory of Overcoming Trauma – June 20, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ6esJHvoxk

 

The Supreme Court Made It Easier to Union Bash | Robert Reich on MSNBC - June 22, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Ju2AZPY80

 

The Core Solution: Competition.  Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream" – June 23, 2024

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-core-solution-competition

 

Economic Update: Fracking vs Fossil Fuel Profits - Interview with Award winning Director Josh Fox – June 24, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9wowrqFXuQ

 

Trump Would Take a Wrecking Ball to Our Economy | Robert Reich – June 25, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NDd_LNwT8E

 

Brazil's Supreme Court decriminalizes marijuana possession – June 26, 2024

https://www.dw.com/en/brazils-supreme-court-decriminalizes-marijuana-possession/a-69475215

 

St. Louis Basic-Income Lawsuit Threatens Pilot Program - Business Insider – June 26, 2024

https://www.businessinsider.com/stlouis-basic-income-lawsuit-shut-down-pilot-unconstitutional-ubi-gbi-2024-6

 

Biden Vs. Trump On Marijuana: Where The Candidates Stand Heading Into The 2024 Election – June 26, 2024

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/biden-vs-trump-on-marijuana-where-the-candidates-stand-heading-into-the-2024-election/

 

Economic Update: State Senator And Socialist - Interview with Kristen Gonzalez (NY State Senator) – July 1, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2edCF-Tw2E

 

The Truth About Immigrants and the Economy | Robert Reich – July 2, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCl9-uaKzv8

 

Federal judge partially blocks U.S. ban on noncompetes – July 3, 2024

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/03/nx-s1-5020525/noncompete-ban-block-ftc-competition-ryan-texas

 

Dialectic At Work: A Theoretical Rupture: Overdetermination – July 4, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W21APf0Ukxg

 

The Lie That Costs Americans Their Jobs I 10 Economic Myths Debunked #6 – July 5, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt9rKP85CJk

 

Economic Update: From The Old Socialisms To The New – July 8, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v6bz6qi2AY

 

Boeing Is Everything Wrong With American Capitalism | Robert Reich – July 8, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duNbqQj8ewI

 

We must scrap the cap and demand that the wealthy pay their fair share to extend Social Security. – July 9, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuF1cHKWbds

 

This Bill Would Cut Social Security BEFORE Project 2025 w/ Alex Lawson – July 9, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5DMmf3etxI

 

The Right to Education for Disabled Young Adults.  A law in Pennsylvania makes it possible for schools to kick out disabled students as soon as they turn twenty-two. – July 9, 2024

https://progressive.org/latest/the-right-to-education-for-disabled-young-adults-ervin-20240709/

 

Global Capitalism: The Decline of the US Empire [July 2024] – July 10, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyw6vD2kiew

 

Capitalism Hits Home: Trump As Totem – July 11, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoSixtiyc3Y

 

Property code enforcement a sore spot in some SD towns – July 11, 2024

https://www.sdnewswatch.org/faith-south-dakota-property-code-enforcement-rural-housing/

 

The Real Welfare in America I 10 Economic Myths Debunked #7 – July 12, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVm2e3Gyp6I

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