Will ‘Poor Man’s Cocaine’ Fuel the Next U.S. Drug Crisis?
The cheap and highly addictive cocaine-like stimulant Captagon shows signs of following in the opioid fentanyl’s footsteps.
Read more...Category Archives: Income disparity
Doing the Marriage Thing Again
Even though bringing up kids with two parents is generally better than one, the analyses nvestigating the pro-marriage hypothesis are lousy.
Read more...When Authorities Believe Their Citizens Will Become Dangerous…
Ordinary citizens are not worried enough about the prospect that the police/surveillance state will be used against them.
Read more...Some States Fighting Medicare Plan to Require Minimum Staffing in Nursing Homes
Sadly, there is pushback against a proposed Medicare rule to assure (barely) adequate staffing in nursing homes. Please comment in favor!
Read more...House GOP Unveils Budget With Trillions in Cuts to Medicaid, Food Benefits, and More
The new proposal underscores the Republican Party’s “thirst for cruel budget cuts,” said Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle.
Read more...California Democrats Double Down on Efforts to Involuntarily Commit the Homeless
Sacramento wraps up its legislative session with efforts to disappear the homeless.
Read more...The War in Ukraine Helps Advance the Great EU Neoliberal Project
Movers and shakers cash in while workers are disciplined and the welfare state is cut.
Read more...‘This Is Our Defining Moment’: UAW Launches Historic Strikes Against Big Three Automakers
The once-feared UAW is flexing some muscle. Complaints about expenses are disingenuous v, the cost of stock manipulation, aka buybacks.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: TECHNOFEUDALISM – What Killed Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis’ forthcoming book examines our changed economic system, which he callls “technofeudalism.”
Read more...On Not Thinking Like a Liberal in the 21st Century
“Liberalism is the solution to nothing we face in this changing world that Liberalism hath wrought.”
Read more...How Shareholder Value Fixation Turns AI and Robotics into a Recipe for Failure
New technologies are not the problem. It’s a system distorted by a flawed shareholder value ideology.
Read more...Six Tips for a Good Night’s Sleep
Yes, there are six!
Read more...Will It Be Socialism or Barbarism for the Twenty-First Century?
How the end of policies supporting the material well-being of workers, aka socialism, has created widespread distress and political schisms.
Read more...My Favorite Recession Indicator: The Next Recession Moves Further Out of Sight
There will be a recession, there’s always a recession eventually. But we’ll just have to keep watching for it.
Read more...Jobs Are Up, Wages Less So – and Lower Purchasing Power Could Still Lead the US into a Recession
Quelle surprise! Trends in wages indicate that the economy is less robust than the officialdom and financial press would have you believe.
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