Whole Foods Becomes Amazon Hell Foods as Employees, Managers Quit, Cry on the Job….and These People Want to Run Your Healthcare?
Amazon is being its vicious self yet again, now at Whole Foods.
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Patient Dumping: A “New” Cost Savings Strategy for Hospitals
Some hospitals have put indigent patients out on the street, clad only in hospital gowns, something that was previously unthinkable.
Read more...Ilargi: Shithouses
How Trump’s widely deplored shithouses comment was an unintended, uncomfortable truth about US policy.
Read more...Big Pharma Greets Hundreds Of Ex-Federal Workers At The ‘Revolving Door’
An update on one of the biggest users of DC revolving doors: health care industry executives.
Read more...Rail Workers Acquitted in Trial on Deadly Lac-Mégantic Oil Train Disaster
A jury acquitted front line workers in the horrific Lac-Mégantic “bomb train,” but the higher-ups have not been held to account.
Read more...A Day in the Life of an NHS Nurse – How Our Government Is Failing Both Patients and Nurses
Nurses are leaving the NHS, and that’s no accident.
Read more...Amazon, City Killer?
The unseemly bidding war to have the opportunity to have Amazon ruin your city moves to its finalist phase.
Read more...The Long-Term Care Crisis: Premiums Exploding, Leaving Seniors With “An Awful Choice”
More on the long-term care insurance train wreck.
Read more...5 Ways Capitalist Logic Has Sabotaged the Scientific Community
A useful short list on how commercial and competitive pressures have undermined good scientific practice.
Read more...How Amazon’s Accounting Makes Rich People’s Income Invisible
How Amazon’s predatory non-profit model is a particularly potent form of rent extraction.
Read more...Carillion Must Now Also Face Justice for Blacklisting Trade Unionists
More on Carillion’s bad deeds.
Read more...Intel: No Financial Meltdown
Some economists are Not Happy to see Intel getting away virtually scot free from its Meltdown and Spectre security train wrecks.
Read more...Careers and Families of High-Skilled Women in the Age of High Inequality
Who’d have thunk it? Cheap servants mean high income career women have more kids.
Read more...International Trade and Globalization: Are Benefits Truly Mutual?
Questioning economic orthodoxies on trade.
Read more...Meltdown and Spectre FAQ: Crapification at Scale
Billions, nay trillions, of processors. What, if anything, to do?
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