Sunday, January 12, 2025

Economics and Corruption and Healthcare and Education related links 011325


UAW Federal Monitor Investigates Fain’s Purge of Top Allies While Convicted Felon Steers UAW Legal – August 2, 2024

https://paydayreport.com/uaw-federal-monitor-investigates-fains-purge-of-top-allies-while-convicted-felon-steers-uaw-legal/

 

The Tragedy of Ryan White – November 29, 2024

https://newrepublic.com/article/188318/ryan-white-politics-hiv-aids-tragedy-legacy

 

The Hype Machine – December 1, 2024

https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-new-republic/20241201/282196541538295

 

UnitedHealthcare Shooting Memes Speak to Anger at the Health Care System and CEO Pay

Since UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot, social media has been ablaze with angry messages, memes, and jokes about health care in the United States. – December 11, 2024

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/unitedhealthcare-shooting-memes-anger-at-healthcare-system-ceo-pay

 

The People in the Shop.  David Montgomery and the vitality of labor history. – December 17, 2024

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/david-montgomery-labor-history/

 

Judge orders UAW officials to produce records sought in Shawn Fain corruption probe. – December 17, 2024

https://www.gmtoday.com/autos/judge-orders-uaw-officials-to-produce-records-sought-in-shawn-fain-corruption-probe/article_fcbff1bc-bc91-11ef-8eea-c7f5bde50d26.html

 

Sweeps Won’t Fix Homelessness.  Instead, governments should prioritize safe, affordable, dignified, and permanent housing for all. – December 18, 2024

https://www.laprogressive.com/housing-and-homlessness/fix-homelessness

 

Just How Bad Is the ‘Educational Choice’ Bill in Congress that Trump Is Expected to Support?  A federal voucher bill is closer to making it to the finish line than any that have come before it. – December 19, 2024

https://progressive.org/public-schools-advocate/just-how-bad-is-the-educational-choice-bill-in-congress-that-trump-is-expected-to-support-greene-20241219/

 

‘Packages and profits over people’: What it’s like to be an Amazon driver and why some are on strike – December 20, 2024

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/20/business/why-amazon-drivers-are-on-strike

 

These steelworkers want a U.S. Steel sale. Biden and Trump don’t.  As White House decision looms, many steelworkers see deal as lifeline for their aging mills. – December 20, 2024

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/20/steel-workers-trump-biden-nippon/

 

“They Think We’re Robots”: Amazon Holiday Shopping Puts Workers at Risk.  Workers at Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse explain how they bear the brunt of offloaded holiday stress. – December 23, 2024

https://progressive.org/latest/they-think-were-robots-amazon-holiday-shopping-puts-workers-at-risk-llano-20241223/

 

We’re Already Seeing Signs That Trump Is Tanking the Economy.  Your stock portfolio may grow. But say goodbye to next year’s raise—and maybe even your job. – December 23, 2024

https://newrepublic.com/article/189632/trump-stock-market-economy-tanking

 

The Intolerable Life Cycle of Debt and Death.  Pop culture serves up a timely yuletide lesson about the inescapable connection between poverty and suicide. We need to start heeding it all year round.December 24, 2024

https://newrepublic.com/article/189336/debt-suicide-christmas-economic-inequality

 

Crisis in Beijing: Streets Filled With Tears as Millions of Workers Leave, Empty Trains to Beijing – December 24, 2024

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

 

Gray Expectations.  Caring for my aging father taught me about the massive holes in America’s safety net for the elderly. – December 24, 2024

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/12/24/gray-expectations/

 

Political Economy Contradictions Facing Us as We Lurch Into 2025.  Multiple, intense, and persistent contradictions within both parties suggest that some underlying, historic shifts may be underway.

Richard Wolff – December 24, 2024

https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/political-economy-contradictions

 

A Proposed Labor Rule Would End Subminimum Wages for Disabled Workers.  But the fate of what could be a win for workers with disabilities lies in the hands of the incoming Trump Administration. – December 24, 2024

https://progressive.org/latest/a-proposed-labor-rule-would-end-subminimum-wages-for-disabled-workers-ervin-20241223/

 

Wolff Responds: "A Christmas Carol Dickens Unlearned" dated December 25, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWMYlLa6Tyk

 

Why We Need a New Dickens.  Everyone cares about Oliver Twist. Now we need to help the Artful Dodgers.December 25, 2024

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/12/25/why-we-need-a-new-dickens/

 

How Big Pharma Is Wrecking the Inflation Reduction Act – December 26, 2024

https://newrepublic.com/article/189450/big-pharma-patent-ira-billions

 

U.S. Homelessness Spiked by Jaw-Dropping Amount in 2024.  The richest nation in the world needs to talk about its homelessness problem. – December 27, 2024

https://newrepublic.com/post/189699/us-homelessness-2024

 

Is Disease X WORSE Than COVID? – December 27, 2024

https://thom.tv/p/is-disease-x-worse-than-covid

 

Tiny Homes: Hope for the Homeless.  Interim housing is the missing rung on the ladder to permanent housing. Tiny homes is a proven strategy and this bill makes them available statewide. – December 27, 2024

https://www.laprogressive.com/housing-and-homlessness/tiny-homes

 

Saturday Report 12/28/24 - Americans are sick of the Grinches stealing healthcare... – December 28, 2024

https://hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-report-122824-american-are

 

Jamie Raskin, Mary Trump, Actor Ron Perlman, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lorraine Bracco, Ilhan Omar, Glenn Kirschner and more.  Best of my 2024 interviews – December 28, 2024

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/jamie-raskin-mary-trump-actor-ron

 

Calls For a Migrant Labor Strike Grow on Social Media – December 28, 2024

https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/calls-for-a-migrant-labor-strike-grow-on-social-media/

 

China Imposes Its Most Stringent Critical Minerals Export Restrictions Yet Amidst Escalating U.S.-China Tech War

https://www.csis.org/analysis/china-imposes-its-most-stringent-critical-minerals-export-restrictions-yet-amidst

 

Richard Wolff Explains Why America Is Entering A Horrific Financial Crisis... – December 30, 2024

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

 

'Farms will come to a stop': Farmer warns of soaring food prices and shortages under Trump – December 30, 2024

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/farms-will-come-to-a-stop-farmer-warns-of-soaring-food-prices-and-shortages-under-trump/ar-AA1wMjEM

 

Breakthrough Discovery Links New Gene to Autism – December 31, 2024

https://scitechdaily.com/breakthrough-discovery-links-new-gene-to-autism/

 

Wolff Responds: "What Trump Delivers: A Deeply Uncertain New Year" Dated January 1, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IeqgedWaBY

 

Low-income Trump voters PANIC, realize he'll SLASH their benefits – January 1, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-9d6HsTYP4

 

Trump COLLAPSES Into Madness With Alarming Truth Social Rampage – January 1, 2025

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

 

The #1 Most Dangerous Ingredient in the World – January 3, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ7MLOc9k9c

 

12 Things Boomers Learned in School That Are Totally Irrelevant Today – January 3, 2025

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/12-things-boomers-learned-in-school-that-are-totally-irrelevant-today/ss-AA1wUdYt

 

Why Medicare Advantage Stinks.  The most popular Medicare option these days is the privatized version. It's a scam. – January 3, 2025

https://timothynoah.substack.com/p/why-medicare-advantage-stinks

 

Medicare Advantage is Scamming You – January 3, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/189804/privatizing-medicare-advantage-scam-claims-fraudulent

 

New Social Security Benefit Required This To Pass Congress – January 3, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/live/880ldICarUc

 

Scientists Identify New Blood Group After 50 Year Mystery – January 3, 2025

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-new-blood-group-after-50-year-mystery

 

Shapiro, now the second highest-paid governor in the U.S., files complaint against PA energy provider – January 3, 2025  

https://glensidelocal.com/shapiro-now-the-second-highest-paid-governor-in-the-u-s-files-complaint-against-pa-energy-provider/

 

Video: Surgeon General explains why he’s calling for a cancer warning on alcoholic beverages – January 3, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/03/health/video/vivek-murthy-alcohol-consumption-cancer-sitroom-digvid

 

"What's Coming Is WORSE Than A Recession" | Richard Wolff's Last WARNING – January 4, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuY484ynNxY

 

Biden signs Social Security Fairness Act into law.  The Social Security Fairness Act repeals WEP and GPO, two provisions that reduce or eliminate Social Security benefits for certain federal annuitants. – January 5, 2025

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/retirement/2025/01/biden-signs-social-security-fairness-act-into-law/

 

Economic Update: Review of 2024: The U.S. Economy Not So Great – January 6, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDa4DBiFS80

 

Make America Healthy Again – January 6, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCP_3-rdEVw

 

ILA union and port owners held secret meeting on automation as new strike looms – January 6, 2025

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/06/ila-union-ports-held-secret-meeting-on-automation-as-new-strike-looms.html

 

Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel sue Biden administration over blocked deal.  Separate legal salvos target President Joe Biden as well as a steelworkers union head and a rival steelmaker’s CEO. – January 6, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/06/nippon-ussteel-lawsuit/

 

In Rare Move, Some Providence Physicians Prepare to Strike Alongside Nurses - January 6, 2025

https://oregonbusiness.com/in-rare-move-some-providence-physicians-prepare-to-strike-alongside-nurses/

 

Skiers Chant "Pay Your Employees" as Patrol Strike Continues.  Park City skiers expressed their frustration with long lift lines over the weekend. – January 6, 2025

https://www.powder.com/news/skiers-chant-pay-employees-park-city

 

Waffle House employees say owners rob them of up to $46.8 million a year.  Servers accuse the chain of wage theft, saying it forces them to do janitorial work and dishwashing for lower tipped wages. – January 6, 2025

https://www.fastcompany.com/91254947/waffle-house-employees-say-owners-rob-them-of-up-to-46-8-million-a-year

 

This Will Affect Everyone In 2 WEEKS... | Richard Wolff – January 7, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4ImSiSIMxg

 

Surgeon General to Americans: 'Rethink How We're Living Our Lives' (Exclusive) – January 7, 2025

https://people.com/surgeon-general-vivek-murthy-americans-closing-letter-rethink-how-we-are-living-our-lives-exclusive-8770191

 

Residents, interns at Rhode Island Hospital are first doctors in RI to join a union.  The doctors voted to join the Committee of Interns and Residents, the largest such union in the U.S., with more than 34,000 members – January 7, 2025

https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2025/01/07/residents-interns-at-rhode-island-hospital-ok-union-vote/77506210007/

 

Vietnam Struggles to Avoid the Trump Administration’s Glare – January 7, 2025

https://www.cfr.org/blog/vietnam-struggles-avoid-trump-administrations-glare

 

US trade deficit with Vietnam soars beyond $110 billion, as weak dong boosts exports – January 8, 2025

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-trade-deficit-vietnam-soars-054040477.html

 

Why more and more journalists are launching worker-owned outlets.  Fed up with the media industry’s instability, workers are starting newsrooms where they can govern themselves and reach readers directly – January 8, 2025

https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/worker-owned-news-publications-media-coops/

 

Wolff Responds: "Civil War Inside MAGA/Trump Land" Dated January 8, 2025

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

 

Richard Wolff EXPLAINS Why China is Fleeing US Treasuries January 8, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKpbY0ZAH7U

 

Supermajority of BlueOval SK workers in Kentucky file for union election with UAW – January 8, 2025

https://www.wdrb.com/news/business/supermajority-of-blueoval-sk-workers-in-kentucky-file-for-union-election-with-uaw/article_56516110-cdd7-11ef-a18f-ab0e2af229c6.html

 

SEIU Rejoins AFL-CIO After Splitting Off 20 Years Ago – January 8, 2025

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/executive-leadership-and-management/seiu-rejoins-afl-cio-after-splitting-off-20-years-ago/ar-BB1r7wnb

 

Amazon warehouse workers in Garner to decide on union in election next month – January 09, 2025

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article298151058.html#storylink=cpy

 

"Most People Have No Idea What's Coming" | Richard Wolff's Last WARNING – January 09, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNo0oy9gRak

 

Los Angeles Has a Housing Crisis. These Fires Will Make It Worse.  The fires raging in Southern California offer a tragic preview of how the climate crisis will exacerbate homelessness. – January 9, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/190011/los-angeles-fires-houses-homelessness

 

Wages aren't keeping up with costs in Vermont, according to report – January 9, 2025

https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/money/2025/01/09/wages-arent-keeping-up-with-costs-in-vermont-according-to-report-minimum-wage-healthcare-rent/77548021007/

 

De-Dollarization: 2 Countries Officially Ditch the US Dollar for Trade – January 9, 2025

https://watcher.guru/news/de-dollarization-2-countries-officially-ditch-the-us-dollar-for-trade

 

Private equity firms got rich while shirking obligations to hospitals, Senate report finds – January 9, 2025

https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/private-equity-healthcare-senate-report/736826/

 

Patient care declines after private equity buys hospitals, study finds – January 10, 2025

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-patient-declines-private-equity-buys.html

 

The Labor Movement Just Notched Two Big Wins.  SEIU merged back with the AFL-CIO, and the Biden administration averted the threat of a second dockworker strike. – January 10, 2025

https://newrepublic.com/article/190075/afl-cio-seiu-merger-labor

 

Bidenomics Was A Success.  It's terribly elitist to say so, but I'm sorry, it happens to be true. – January 10, 2025

https://timothynoah.substack.com/p/bidenomics-was-a-success

 

Saturday Report 1/11/25 - Greedy insurer interrupts cancer surgery with shocking mid-procedure call...

The Best of the Rest of the News

https://hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-report-11125-greedy-insurer

 

"MOST Don't Know It YET..." | Richard Wolff – January 11, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72NPn_TiNGg

 

Wall Street’s War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do About It

https://newyorklaborhistory.org/web/?page_id=2768

 

Take Advantage of The 2025 Trump Social Security Check Increases Now – January 11, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9YgNhgeYnA

 

Supreme Court to weigh reinstating Obamacare care requirements struck down by lower court – January 11, 2025

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-obamacare-requirements-health-care-rcna187282

 

An original invention gives US a decisive edge over China in the creation of liquid semiconductors – January 11, 2025

https://farmingdale-observer.com/2025/01/11/an-original-invention-gives-us-a-decisive-edge-over-china-in-the-creation-of-liquid-semiconductors/

 

Millennials and Gen Xers on the Hook for Long-Term Care Costs for Boomers – January 11, 2025

https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-gen-xers-burdened-long-term-care-costs-for-boomers-2025-1

 

Multi-billion dollar healthcare network files for bankruptcy, plans to sell Pennsylvania hospital – January 12, 2025

https://www.yourerie.com/news/pennsylvania-news/multi-billion-dollar-healthcare-network-files-for-bankruptcy-seeks-sale-of-pennsylvania-hospital/

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