(2021-09-05). Higher Pay Undercut By Years Of Wage Stagnation And Rising Inflation. popularresistance.org And the recent wage growth at the low end has not helped reduce income inequality, which actually increased during the pandemic since the highest paid Americans saw sky high raises. In 2020, the earnings of CEOs at the largest public companies were on average 351 times as much as that of the typical worker in their industry, the biggest disparity since the first tech boom in 2000, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
(2021-09-05). The Labor Day Dreams of Black Workers. juancole.com By Marc Bayard, Sarah Anderson and Rebekah Entralgo | — As our second pandemic Labor Day approaches, Black worker leaders are determined to never again bear the brunt of a national crisis as they have under Covid-19. At least four U.S. employees have now been killed as they tried to enforce mask mandates — and …
(2021-09-05). Nicaragua Launches Plan to Fight Poverty and Promote Human Development. orinocotribune.com
(2021-09-05). To Counter U.S. Hostility China Moves Towards People Centered Policies. popularresistance.org This development allowed China to make enormous investments in infrastructure. It also generated the resources necessary to eliminate poverty. It is no coincidence that this development happened while the U.S. was wasting money on wars in the Middle East. As the U.S. is now step by step retreating from those wars to confront China the country needs to prepare itself for the new environment.
(2021-09-04). Wednesday 9/8: "Fighting Poverty with SNAP": Expanding Assistance Programs as Anti-Poverty Tools. indybay.org Online panel discussion…
(2021-09-04). 'Catastrophe' Feared as 35 Million People Are Set to Lose Jobless Aid. zcomm.org Millions of jobless workers are set to lose critical unemployment benefits—and neither Congress nor the Biden administration seem prepared to do anything about it…
(2021-09-04). New York's Ida disaster: A social crime in the center of world capitalism. wsws.org The massive flooding in New York—the world's wealthiest city and home to the highest concentration of billionaires anywhere—has revealed the deadly consequences of the systemic defunding of social infrastructure and the impoverishment of masses of workers.
(2021-09-04). With a plan against the climate crisis. indybay.org Quality and enjoyment would be the new maxims, and the true wealth would be free time. Admittedly, a change in consciousness would remain necessary, and many a convenience in lifestyle would have to be abandoned in favor of the ecosystem. However, the standard of living could be raised significantly through free time and leisure.
(2021-09-04). [Correspondence] Responding to responsive behaviour in Alzheimer's disease. thelancet.com The Seminar on Alzheimer's disease by Philip Scheltens and colleagues1 contains a wealth of valuable information on biological and epidemiological aspects of the condition. However, an area of concern was the relegation of what were termed neuropsychiatric syndromes to drug treatment alone.