How the Labor Movement Can Make the UAW’s 2028 General Strike Dream Come True
This could be the beginning of the most exciting resurgence of American organized labor power in a century.
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After Years of Tanking Climate Action and Anti-Poverty Measures, Manchin Announces Exit From Senate
“During his time in office, Manchin served the fossil fuel industry and lined his pockets with the payoff,” said one critic.
Read more...UN Special Rapporteur Calls Out Walmart, Amazon, DoorDash as Creating Poverty by Not Paying Living Wages
Major companies like Walmart create poverty via obscenely low pay, most recently confirmed via a UN special rapporteur.
Read more...United Auto Workers Union Hails Strike-Ending Deals with Automakers That Would Raise Top Assembly-Plant Hourly Pay to More Than $40 as ‘Record Contracts’
UAW strike wins across the auto industry show that disciplined labor action works.
Read more...Smaller Employers Weigh a Big-Company Fix for Scarce Primary Care: Their Own Clinics
Some employers in primary care deserts are entering the healh care business, indirectly revealing the level of institutionalized profiteering
Read more...Seeking Full Employment Without Falling Prey to Neoliberal Traps
MMT economist Bill Mitchell on the rise of neoliberal ideology across the Anglosphere and how it curbed labor.
Read more...Theories of Economic Crises
How different economic theories, or more accurately, stories, about crises, have profound impact on policy.
Read more...Baffled Migrants Sent from Shelter to Shelter With No Rest as City Pushes Them To Leave
New York City implements a policy to deny migrants shelter and effectively evict them from the five boroughs.
Read more...With Shutdown Averted, Is Social Security Safe? Nope!
Tax breaks to the rich mean less revenue, higher deficits, and more calls to gut programs like Social Security that protect ordinary citizens
Read more...Using Opioid Settlement Cash for Police Gear Like Squad Cars and Scanners Sparks Debate
A look at how different communities are deploying opioid settlement cash. But no clear data on policing versus treatment.
Read more...After Poland’s Elections: Democracy and Keynesianism?
A divergent take on Poland elections: PiS lost becaue it promised to address the costs of 1990s shock doctrine but then did little.
Read more...New York City Will Send Migrant Families to Flood-Prone, Far-Off Tents
New York City will send arriving migrant families seeking shelter to a former airfield. Those now in shelters get 60-day eviction notices.
Read more...Deaths of Despair Afflict More Cohorts Than Case-Deaton Originally Found
Deaths of despair turn out to be more widespread than thought earlier. Yet lack of interest in this collective tragedy persists.
Read more...Rob Urie: Is It Fascism Yet?
Rob Urie provides a follow-on post to focus on a topic he mentioned in passing: fascism on the left, and fascism generally.
Read more...Europe’s Anti-Immigrant Governments Learn to Love Immigration
European “nationalist” governments embrace EU-prescribed austerity and pursue exploitable immigrant labor for their overlords despite running on anti-immigrant platforms.
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