Koch influence in the academic sphere is far ranging. Koch money funds individual courses, professorships, fellowships, and even energy research and policy programs. These are significant investments in the “intellectual raw materials” of free-market advocacy.
Read more...Think tank says climate crisis and population growith will lead at least 1 billion to migrate in countries with least ecological resilence.
Read more...Unemployment claims continue to increase, with nearly 20% collecting unemployment insurance. even according to the stringent claims criteria.
Read more...Lance Taylor explains that wage repression — far more than monopoly power, offshoring or technological change — is driving rising inequality.
Read more...CalPERS violates accounting rules by hiding outside consulting costs in internal investment overheads. None of the possible reasons are good.
Read more...A remarkable series of accidents led to the CalPERS board not being told how much CEO Marcie Frost’s advisor Randle Communications costs.
Read more...The latest sordid episode in the teardown of the US mail service.
Read more...A desperate Government Brexit ploy, perhaps conceived to increase its negotiating options, has quickly become an own goal.
Read more...CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost told the press that she’s punting on her compliance duties.
Read more...A CSU group has asked Gavin Newsom to put CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost on administrative leave while an inspector general probes governane failings.
Read more...CalPERS staff is too obviously still trying to stymie Controller Betty Yee’s governance reforms.
Read more...Controller Betty Yee forcefully slapped down CalPERS’ CEO Frost’s claim that Yee was satisfied with the burial of Yee’s governance issues.
Read more...Amid debates over costs—and profits—from a coronavirus vaccine, a new study shows that taxpayers footed the bill for every new drug approved from 2010 to 2019
Read more...A rallying cry for the Post Office.
Read more...CalPERS has long covered up its dirty linen, including by making uninformative presentations to the board.
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