Houston, South Asia Floods: Climate Change Is Creating A New Urban Crisis
Christian Parenti says laws and technology can protect humanity from climate disaster, provided we rip away the veil of the ‘free market’.
Read more...Christian Parenti says laws and technology can protect humanity from climate disaster, provided we rip away the veil of the ‘free market’.
Read more...Judge strikes down overtime rule, leaving it to Trump’s Labor Department to decide how to revise overtime regs and thresholds set in 2004.
Read more...Hurricane Harvey has shut down the Colonial pipeline indefinitely; east coast consumers soon to see gasoline shortages that imports can’t fix.
Read more...Houston and US more generally should embrace a Dutch model of flood protection rather than focusing flood control efforts on post hoc clean-up.
Read more...NBER paper links increase in unemployment to trebling in opioid deaths and increased emergency room visits over the 1999-2014 period.
Read more...School lunches: yet another area where the privatization fairy has failed to perform a miracle and cut costs while raising standards.
Read more...Trump’s Treasury Dept renews and modestly extends real estate money laundering reg– which fails to address the scope of dirty money issues.
Read more...Dean Baker discusses the push toward privatization of Social Security just after the system celebrates its 82nd birthday.
Read more...No new legislation is necessary for financial regulatory rollback to proceed. Enforcement priorities fail to target Wall Street.
Read more...WSJ says fiduciary rule helps Wall Street, so rescission unlikely. But still may be better for retail investors than previous status quo.
Read more...EPA enforcement of federal clean air and clean water laws drops off, yielding lower fines; trend looks only likely to accelerate.
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