Who’s Responsible? How the “Independent Contractor” Dodge Guts Employment Protections
On establishing legal responsibility for employment in the fissured workplace.
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As Youth Suicides Climb, Anguished Parents Begin To Speak Out
It’s not just that suicides are rising among teens but that many well-adjusted-seeming kids are killing themselves.
Read more...Will Biden’s Trade Policy Record Come Back to Haunt Him in Midwest?
Sanders seeks to make Biden pay for his trade record in Tuesday’s Michigan primary. Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, and Washington also hold primaries on the same day.
Read more...Coronavirus: Kids About as Likely as Adults to Become Infected; What Happens When School Closures Become Widespread?
Coronavirus is already causing large-scale school closures abroad; what happens when that becomes the new normal in the US?
Read more...‘Biological Clocks’, Import Competition, and the Gender Gap in Earnings: The China Effect
Why did American women stop putting off having children? Dimished opportunities due to China import competition played a significant role.
Read more...Let’s Crush the Woke Plutonomy! An Interview + Review of The Populist’s Guide to 2020: A New Right and New Left are Rising by Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti
How the ordering of the world to suit the 1% – also known as plutonomy – has generated long-overdue “populist” pushback.
Read more...Why Our Food Systems Need a Radical Overhaul
Despite ravaging the Earth for industrial agriculture, we can’t provide nourishing food globally. That has to change.
Read more...Why East Germans Are Not Taking Advantage of the Large Wage Gap Between East and West Germany
Reallocating workers to better jobs at their current location could be a more cost-effective avenue to increase aggregate wages, and even accelerate regional convergence
Read more...Housing Insecurity, Homelessness, and Populism: Evidence from the UK
Cutting subsidies for private rental housing did not do much to reduce overall spending or lower rents but caused a lot of pain.
Read more...Boris Johnson, Not Donald Trump, Is the Real Blue-Collar Conservative
Is Boris Johnson misunderstood?
Read more...The Race to Slash ‘Red Tape’ in Post-Brexit Britain Has Begun. How Can It Be Resisted?
Brexit is being used to accelerate the neoliberal race to the bottom.
Read more...Michael Hudson: The Democrats’ Quandary – In a Struggle Between Oligarchy and Democracy, Something Must Give
The Democrats’ civil war over who controls the party may be coming to a head.
Read more...Is Bloomberg Buying the DNC? If So, What Does He Plan to Do With It?
A closer look at Bloomberg’s attempted takeover of the DNC.
Read more...Legacy Admissions: Johns Hopkins Drops Preferences, Other Institutions Consider Changes
Johns Hopkins announces it’s eliminated legacy admissions, sparking a wider debate. Will other institutions follow?
Read more...Wolf Richter: Subprime Credit Card Delinquencies Spike to Record High, Past Financial-Crisis Peak, as Other Consumers Relish the Good Times. Why?
The concern is not for banks or investors in subprime-credit-card backed securities. But what does this bifurcation tell us about consumers?
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