OSHA reversed a rule that would have provided more information about workplace dangers nationally. It decided to stop requiring large employers to electronically report injury and illness data. OSHA still requires employers to document this information, but they don’t have to tell anyone.
Read more...Ever-rising healthcare expenses are keeping many old people in the workforce.
Read more...Recent work on iinequality by Lance Taylor says this will be a particularly hard problem to solve.
Read more...Will Trump declare a win if his trade representative fails to negotiate a viable long-term solution with Beijing?
Read more...A review of Sanders’ options…..
Read more...Get a cup of coffee. A meaty talk by Michael Hudson, Liz Theoharis, and Aliou Niang on the social and economic logic of debt cancellation back when it was a regular practice.
Read more...McKinsey would have you believe it is covering itself in glory in Puerto Rico. A New York Magazine story suggests otherwise.
Read more...Can Sanders supporters counter a hostile media?
Read more...Rethinking internationalism as a way to counter the power of a rootless global elite.
Read more...The health care industry’s first salvo against Medicare for All did not go well.
Read more...Sanders takes off his gloves.
Read more...How solar array projects enable low-income groups to save money and help the environment.
Read more...While it is gratifying to see Senator and presidential contender Elizabeth Warren focusing on antitrust and the abuse of monopoly power, her $25 billlion fix looks too simplistic.
Read more...Veblen was early and accurate about the behaviors and dangers of the super rich. Tthe advanced world is re-living his warnings.
Read more...The World Bank continues its proud tradition of making the world safe for rentiers, um, financiers.
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