Subway Service Delays Feared as Omicron Hits the Express Track
New York City as a canary in the coal mine: how Omicron is already hampering staffing of public transportation.
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Maybe No Omicron Boosters?
The Administration, in the form of Dr. Fauci, is taking another anti-public-health stance by talking down Omicron boosters.
Read more...Kellogg Workers OK Contract, Ending 11-Week Strike
The Kellogg agreement still leaves workers vulnerable, says a local union president.
Read more...Why America’s Military Leaders Need to be Purged
Why the US miliitary desperately needs a housecleaning, starting at the top.
Read more...The Privilege of Staying Home: COVID and the Highly Skilled Workforce
At home work during the pandemic allowed most skilled workers to choose immobility, which could affect future work and migration patterns
Read more...Alone and Lonely: The Economic Cost of Solitude
This column distinguishes between two forms of solitude – loneliness and living alone – and studies their influence on the economic performance of European regions at the local level.
Read more...The Democrats Go Full Götterdämmerung as Manchin Makes DOA of BBB Official; Omicron Undermines Scapegoating the Unvaxxed
The Democrats may finally be getting their comeuppance.
Read more...How a Group of Starbucks Workers Emerged Victorious in Their Union Fight
How Starbucks, long hostile to unions, lost a fight with workers in Buffalo despite management pulling out all the stops.
Read more...On the Loss of Public Spiritedness in the West and the Impact on Politics
The boundaries between politics and commerce aren’t as clear in Japan and China as in the West, and we may not be better off for that.
Read more...More Cheery Omicron News
The latest Omicron findings.
Read more...Mirabile Dictu! Appeals Judge Rejects $4.5 Billion Purdue Pharma Opioid Settlement for Giving Sacklers Release from Civil Suits
A surprising but welcome smackdown of the Purdue Pharma settlement that would have let the Sacklers secure their considerable loot.
Read more...Build Back Better Verges on Collapse as Manchin Attempts to Kill Child Tax Credit
How Manchin is putting a lump of coal in Biden’s Christmas stocking.
Read more...Being Rich Does Not Make You More Generous. It Makes You Meaner.
Why relying on the kindness of strangers, particularly rich ones, is not such a hot idea.
Read more...The US Doesn’t Have Enough Faculty To Train the Next Generation of Nurses
Nurses’ ranks were being hollowed out even before Covid due to not instructing enough to fill rising needs. That shortfall getting worse.
Read more...Cornell Goes Code Red, Cancels Most Campus Activities During Covid Spike with “Very High Percentage” Omicron in Fully Vaxxed
The Cornell “Alert Level Red” with “very substantial” Omicron cases among the fully vaxxed and boosted confirms Omicron’s contagiousness.
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