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/
