(2019-07-05). Billionaire US coal magnate & 6 others die in helicopter crash off Bahamas. rt.com 
A wealthy West Virginia coal mine owner, his daughter and five others died when their helicopter crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Bahamas en route to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
(2019-07-05). The Wealthy and The Miserable: Replacing Global Capitalism. "The Highest Duty is to Think of Others". Victor Hugo. globalresearch.ca Victor Hugo was one of the greatest Social Clinicians who ever lived. He provided accurate diagnosis; he sought root cause; and he offered brilliant remedy—"create vast fields of Public Activity." | Hugo believed in the imperishability of Human Goodness and the …
(2019-07-05). Job Growth Bounces Back in June, But Unemployment Edges Upward. truthout.org The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy added 224,000 jobs in June, a sharp bounce back from the revised figure of 72,000 jobs reported for May. With a small downward revision to the April data, this brings the three-month average to 171,000. The average hourly wage is up 3.1 percent from the year-ago level. There is evidence of further slowing, with the annualized rate of increase from the first quarter to the second quarter at just 2.7 percent. | There was little change in the household survey. Unemployment edged up slightly to 3.7 percent, but this was primarily due to an increase in labor…
(2019-07-05). How businesses have changed since the #metoo movement. nationofchange.org Equal treatment for women in the workplace has been a point of contention since the advent of the women's rights movement a half-century ago. In more recent years, in-person and online activism have made it possible for women and allies to stand against abuse, harm, harassment and inequality with the #MeToo movement. Studies reveal that 81 …
(2019-07-05). Born on the 5th of July. counterpunch.org 
The unifying factor behind environmental decline, an extractive health care system, mind-numbing work for poverty wages, perpetual wars and increasingly intrusive and assertive commercial relations, is capitalism. Of course, the term is an abstraction, shorthand for a belief system used to explain and organize social relations. Its history is of brutality, pillage and genocide explained by its perpetrators as laying the ground for some imagined future civility. More
(2019-07-04). Fund Head Start, Not Internment Camps. truthout.org I came to this country from Mexico as a small child because my mother was escaping poverty and wanted to give my sisters and me a better life. She worked hard to make sure we had food on our table and a roof over our heads, often doing two and three jobs at a time. | Because of poverty and systemic racism, undocumented families like mine must work multiple jobs and get paid under the table, and that often comes with mistreatment and discrimination on the job. To get by, people in our community have to develop our own survival methods, such as getting together with neighbors to share meals or take care of each…
(2019-07-04). Pay packet inequality growing worldwide, says new UN report. un.org Top earners around the world have seen their share of national income rise in the last decade and a half, while everyone else has seen their pay packets shrink by comparison, UN economists reported on Thursday.
(2019-07-03). California gig workers eye a win if landmark bill passes state Senate. peoplesworld.org 
SAN FRANCISCO—If a law now wending its way through the state legislature passes its final hurdles this summer, hundreds of thousands of California workers now called "independent contractors" will be poised to gain essential benefits like Social Security, unemployment insurance, overtime pay, and workers' compensation, as well as vital rights like collective bargaining. Assembly Bill …
(2019-07-02). Sorry 'Washington Post'—Bernie Sanders Is Right About Economic Inequality. thenation.com Sorry 'Washington Post'—Bernie Sanders Is Right About Economic Inequality…
(2019-06-18). Report: Louisiana schools fall short on collecting, publishing policing data. splcenter.org As the presence of law enforcement officers in schools continue to grow in Louisiana and nationally, school policing data is not being made readily available to Louisiana's citizens as required by federal law, according to a report that the Southern Poverty Law Center released today.
