Food Insecurity: A Potentially Underrated Collateral Damage of the Pandemic
Increases in hunger and food insecurity under Covid are significant, yet have gone largely under the radar.
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Rethinking Unemployment: From Adam Smith to Marx “Reserve Army of the Unemployed” to the Neoliberal War on Full Employment
Unemployment as a balancing act between workers ‘fearing the sack’ and employers ‘fearing the quit,” with employers usually winning out.
Read more...Bezzle Watch: “1099s and Tenderness” – Papa Health Has Wacky Ideas About Elder Care
Papa Health makes no sense as a business, not that that’s a barrier to a few rounds of fundraising.
Read more...How Third-Party Auditors Make Oil Industry Fraud Possible
Oil companies hire accountants to legitmate inflated financial claims. Investors and regulators are targeting these auditors for fraud.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/3/2021
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Read more...Driver’s License Suspensions for Failure to Pay Fines Inflict Particular Harm on Black Drivers
Yet another way that biased policing does financial harm to blacks and people of color.
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Why Colombia Has Erupted in Protest
The pandemic exacerbated intolerable poverty and economic distress in Colombia. As repression mounts, is there any way out?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/2/2021
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Read more...Little-Known Illnesses Turning Up in Covid Long-Haulers
Yet more types of long Covid damage, this one particularly debilitating.
Read more...Lawmakers Are Firing Back At Fossil Fuel Divestors
Red state retaliation! Fossil fuel states will take business away from firms that divest from energy producers.
Read more...The West’s Not Very Hidden Hand in Debt Oppression in Central Asia
How World-Bank-sponsored microlending produced widespread misery in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan: debt collectors use violence.
Read more...SoftBank-Funded Silicon Valley Unicorn Katerra, Which Was to “Transform” the Construction Industry, Collapses
Katerra, one of the rare unicorns with a real or at least plausible business, fell to Covid. Lawsuits will fly.
Read more...From Tragedy to Hesitancy: How Public Health Failures Boosted COVID-19 Vaccine Scepticism
Who’d have thunk it? Public health incompetence fuels distrust in official recommendations, like vaccines.
Read more...The Empire Strikes Back Against Mexican President AMLO
As The Economist urges Mexican voters to vote for anyone who isn’t AMLO, the US government is up to its old tricks: funneling money to political opposition groups.
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