Salve Lucrum: The Existential Threat of Greed in US Health Care
A big reason US health sucks is that the government refuses to crack down on abuses like price gouging and billing games.
Read more...Category Archives: Income disparity
Identifying the Real Resistance
Can the rich be trusted to fix a breaking world? Or should the real resistance unite beneath one banner?
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Two: Losses Top $33 Billion But Uber Has Avoided The Equity Collapse Most “Tech” Startups Experienced
An update on Uber financial fakery and continued lack of bona fide profits.
Read more...Jared Holst: The Criminal Value Chain
Police reform schemes avoid addressing the causes of criminal activity, most of all poverty. But that would mean giving nice things to people
Read more...The Government Makes a Profit on Defaulted Student Loans
The Federal government’s unheard of profits on defaulted student loans confirms that the scheme is predatory. And defaults are set to rise.
Read more...Tipping Is Not a Reward—It’s an Insult
Tipping legalizes subminimum wages and keeps workers subservient to the whims of employers and customers.
Read more...Asking the Oppressed to Be Nonviolent Is an Impossible Standard That Ignores History
The demand that protest only be nonviolent helps preserve an often corrupt and abusive status quo.
Read more...‘Absolute Hypocrisy’: GOP Unveils Bill to Make Trump Tax Cuts Permanent While Howling About Debt
The point of the debt ceiling melodrama is to give fiscal hawks another whack at budget-cutting. Tax increase are therefore off the table.
Read more...Rose Marie Counts Wins “Classification Struggle” over Smile, Dental Work with HR Department of Pennsylvania Convenience Store Sheetz
Celebrating a victory for workers everywhere (and especially non-smilers).
Read more...What Happens When Progressives Tacitly Accept Reactionary and Authoritarian Identity Politics
Progressives sat back when some clearly dodgy social change programs were being implemented, handing the right some easy wins.
Read more...Hit With Extreme Weather, Texas Cities Debate Cost of Adaptation
Experts say local governments should prioritize extreme weather preparedness. But building resilience is expensive, and the wealthy can afford to do it for themselves.
Read more...The Obama Presidential ‘Library’
Obama has an edifice complex! Who’d have thunk it?
Read more...Employment of “People with a Disability” Spiked to Record in Hot Labor Market. Applications for Disability Benefits Fell to 20-Year Low
Covid-induced labor market tighteness is giving people with a disabilty more access to jobs than evah.
Read more...A Big Reckoning Starting for Private Equity and Its Public Pension Fund Enthusiasts
Private equity returns are finally going pear-shaped, but for the most part, investors are re-upping their bets.
Read more...How Corporations Hope to Eviscerate Workers’ Right to Strike
A suit by Glacier Northwest, seeking to recover costs it incurred during a strike, is now before the Supreme Court.
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