Fall Fashion’s Economic Forecast
A sampling of fall/winter women’s frocks does not make for an upbeat economic forecast.
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CBO: GOP Social Security Plan Would Cut Benefits by Thousands, Not Extend Solvency
The CBO releases an analysis of a Project 2025-adjacent plan to reduce Social Security benefits. The “reforms” don’t improve fund solvency!
Read more...What Is a “Fair” Drug Price?
Debunking Big Pharma whinging over Inflation Reduction Act drug price negotiations.
Read more...Closing the Health Gap: How Chronic Illness Drives Health Inequality Early On
A look at how chronic disease by age and income cohort affects health inequality.
Read more...Cheapflation and the Rise of Inflation Inequality in 2021-2023
Big companies victimized poor consumers via cheapflation: imposing greater price increases on low price goods than higher priced items
Read more...‘The Data on Extreme Human Ageing Is Rotten from the Inside Out’ – Ig Nobel Winner Saul Justin Newman
Some myths bite the dust, here related to the number who live to be over 100. Not surprisingly, the cause is crappy data.
Read more...Local Decline and Populism
Would prettying up small city high streets in decline ward off dreaded right wing populism?
Read more...Boeing Faces Cash Crunch and Ratings Downgrade as Machinists Union Goes on Strike
Boeing is in a staredown with its machinists’ union over pay and other issues. With downgrade possible, what are the odds of a bailout?
Read more...Revolutionize Global Water Access
How solar-powered water pumps could alleviate shortages of potable water, particularly in poor parts of the world.
Read more...Compost Co-Op: Recycling the Discarded
Greenfield, Massachusetts’s Compost Co-op gives ex-inmates a living wage through meaningful work.
Read more...The First Year of Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Is Mired in Red Tape
How Georgia’s Medicaid work rules are operating as planned.
Read more...Can We Afford the Welfare State?
Unpacking why the obstacle to preserving the welfare state is not national income or demographics but rentiers increasing their take.
Read more...Official US Poverty Rate Declined in 2023, but More People Faced Economic Hardship
The arguably better official measure of US poverty says the poor are getting poorer.
Read more...Where Can We Live? The Homeless Crisis in America
The war on the homeless in the US has entered a very ugly phase.
Read more...The Persistent Human Costs of Deindustrialization: Lessons from the Collapse of the British Coal Industry
Deindustrialization has terrible consequences to the communities suffering from shut-downs, including future generations.
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