(2021-08-09). US Senate nears passage of infrastructure spending bill. wsws.org The bill represents the Biden White House's acceptance of the major provisions demanded by Republicans, including no increase in taxes on the wealthy and big business.
(2021-08-09). PEACH Provides Palliative Care For Homeless And Vulnerably Housed. popularresistance.org A child of refugees who fled war-torn Uganda in the 1970s, a young Naheed Dosani grew up having conversations about social injustice, inequity and poverty at the family's Scarborough home. "I have always pondered what a life is worth," he says, "and why our health and social systems are designed to value some lives over those of others." | This was especially the case after the challenges of the last year. A palliative care physician who works with some of the city's most vulnerable, Dosani said that "COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted people who experience structural vulnerabilities. Pandemics are like gui…
(2021-08-09). Unemployment Record Now Far Ahead of Recovery from Great Recession. counterpunch.org The July employment report again showed very strong gains in both the establishment and household survey. In addition to showing 943,000 new jobs in July, the numbers for April and May were also revised up substantially so that the average over the last three months is now 832,000. At that pace, we would make up
(2021-08-09). Collective working time reduction is long overdue. indybay.org Full-time employment must be reduced and part-time employment increased. Otherwise, as has been the case in Germany since the mid-1970s, unemployment will not be eliminated and there will be a further decline in labor incomes and more and more precarious workers – especially in many service markets that continue to grow.
(2021-08-09). Richard Trumka 1949—2021. indybay.org Trumka, who was installed as AFL-CIO president in 2009, helped enforce a vast transfer of wealth from the working class to the coffers of big business through the virtual elimination of strikes and other forms of class struggle.
(2021-08-08). America's 'Great Leap Forward' Into Socialism. strategic-culture.org By Patrick J. BUCHANANThis weekend, a bipartisan group of senators crafted a $1 trillion measure to repair and expand the nation's roads, bridges, ports, airports and broadband. Last week, this trillion-dollar infrastructure plan got a green light from 17 Republican senators, including Sen. Mitch McConnell. | Just seven weeks into his presidency, Joe Biden signed a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill. Among the largest spending bills in history, it was passed without the vote of a single Republican. | The plan sent direct payments of up to $1,400 to most Americans, extended a $300 per week unemployment insurance b…
(2021-08-08). Silicon Valley, New Zealand and Pandemic Exceptionalism. dissidentvoice.org There are some crises that never touch the well-heeled. Money, like flab, insulates them from bruising. The generally applied laws of a state can be treated as meaningless jottings; the citizenry ignored with class contempt. But few can blame the world's sixth wealthiest person, Larry Page, for circumstances that were gifted to him. An opportunity …