An article in MarketWatch says you should have twice your salary saved by the age of 35. On Twitter, most 30-somethings laughed at the advice. By 35, you should have twice your … Continue reading Twitter Mocks Article That Says The You Should Have Double Your Yearly Salary Saved By 35

The Trump Way offers future candidates and presidents valuable lessons in navigating contemporary politics. 1 – Voters are far more malleable than we thought 2 – Money is overrated; authenticity isn’t 3 – Companies … Continue reading How to be the next Trump – Axios

  Event to highlight pay squeeze is set to be the largest rally in the capital for four years Real wages in the UK will have been in decline for 17 years, … Continue reading March for ‘new deal’ for workers draws thousands in London

The airing of political TV ads is up nearly 90 percent over the same period during the previous midterm election in 2014, a new study finds. Money has typically won elections.. and … Continue reading TV ads in midterms up nearly 90 percent fueled by nondisclosing groups

A bold new idea from Washington that might truly beat back routinized scandal. A public agency to look for conflicts of interest with politicians and to penalize those not acting in behalf … Continue reading Political Corruption Is Ruining Everything, but We Can Fix It

Thousands of demonstrators in Paris danced, picnicked and railed against Emmanuel Macron at a demonstration on Saturday, expressing anger at reforms championed by the French president. Another leader pretending that a country … Continue reading Macron Is Depicted as a King Amid Protests of ‘Soft Dictatorship’ – The New York Times

Virginia Eubanks examines the “digital poorhouse” — all the ways that technology is creating more obstacles for those needing help. It’s certainly hurting the democratic process as well. Source: How Big Data … Continue reading How Big Data Is ‘Automating Inequality’ – The New York Times

As technology platforms, it’s very dangerous for us to get into that space [of moderating views expressed by users], because either you’re asking us to change the information that we provide to … Continue reading Facebook, Twitter, and Google Would Like to Be the Gatekeepers of Democracy Without the Responsibility

Regardless of the practicalities of a jobs guarantee plan, the discussion belies an uncomfortable truth — that’s there a major Washington institution that has as part of its congressional mandate guaranteeing that … Continue reading The Fed wants millions of people out of work, it’s part of their mandate.

Most of the reservations about this policy fit into one of three categories: Cost, implementation, and human capital. We’ll address them one by one, from least defensible to most: Interesting read from … Continue reading Human capital and the jobs guarantee – Financial Times

As the people of Kauai continue to recover from a devastating storm, some scientists are warning that this was something new: the first major storm in Hawaii linked to climate change. Will this be like the slowly heating up water and a frog in the water? Where one day we wake up … Continue reading A Hawaiian island got about 50 inches of rain in 24 hours. Scientists warn it’s a sign of the future

In a frank and wide-ranging conversation, Steny Hoyer laid down the law for Levi Tillemann. The decision, Tillemann was told, had been made long ago. The Democratic party’s closeness with the corporate elite … Continue reading Secretly Taped Audio Reveals Democratic Leadership Pressuring Progressive to Leave Race