A Next-Level Water Crisis: Colorado River Basin Faces Tier 2 Restrictions
More on the intensifying Colorado River water crisis.
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Are Community Schools the Last, Best Shot at Addressing Education Inequity?
Community schools appear to be solving the long-standing education gap between the affluent and the less privileged.
Read more...Influential Oil Company Scenarios for Combating Climate Change Don’t Actually Meet the Paris Agreement Goals, Our New Analysis Shows
How Big Oil plays data games with the Paris Agreement climate targets, already seen by many as too permissive.
Read more...Links 8/17/2022
Buy and Bust: Collapse of Private Equity-Backed Rural Hospitals Mired Employees in Medical Bills
Bad enough when private equity hurts customers and communities. Here they stole from employees by defaulting on health insurance
Read more...Does Nature Have Rights? Victorian Polymath John Ruskin Thought So
Jeffrey Spear discusses how the insights of John Ruskin can help create a new paradigm for protecting the planet.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/16/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Read more...Stagflation: From Tragedy to Farce
Half a century after the 1970s’ stagflation, economies are contracting as prices rise again.
Read more...Is Cold, Hard Cash Making a Comeback?
While cash use has been declining in many places for years, the trend may have reached its apogee. In some countries, including the UK and Spain, it even appears to be making a fragile comeback.
Read more...80% of US Voters Across Party Lines Support Expanding Social Security
Social Security is so popular that an overwhelming majority wants more. But that’s apparently one of the nice things we can’t have.
Read more...“Housing Recession”: NAHB. Homebuilders Cut Prices as Traffic of Prospective New-House Buyers Plunges, Cancellations Spike
Housing sales and prices continuine on their grim slide.
Read more...CDC Rigs Its Own Monkeypox Case Reports by Not Including Questions on Airborne Transmission
A careful examination of CDC’s data collection on monkeypox transmission.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/15/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
Read more...Links 8/15/2022
For Medically Vulnerable Families, Inflation’s Squeeze Is Inescapable
Inflation is putting families with big ongoing medical costs under terrible stress.
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