Private Internet Access, a VPN provider, takes out a full page ad in The New York Times calling out 50 senators allthefoxesATF and DTF[M] Regardless of your choice of VPN provider, it’s … Continue reading 50 senators voted to monitor your Internet activity for financial gain

A sobering new study finds that the world’s biggest industries burn through $7.3 trillion worth of free natural capital a year. And it’s the only reason they turn a profit. Source: None … Continue reading None of the world’s top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use

“The Chicago Police Department: a uniformed mannequin taking pictures of people who engage with them? Why choose such Orwellian branding?” Why the Orwellian profile pic by the Chicago Police? Are they upset … Continue reading Chicago Police Twitter profile pic

Great discussion going on over on Reddit: (1944) After WWII FDR planned to implement a second bill of rights that would include the right to employment with a livable wage, adequate housing, … Continue reading FDR’s Proposed Second Bill of Rights

Over the past ten years, Ecuador has achieved major economic and social advances. We are concerned that many of these important gains in poverty reduction, wage growth, reduced inequality, and greater social … Continue reading 50+ Economists Warn Against Neoliberalism’s Return in Ecuador

Coming soon to a collapsing democracy near you… pic.twitter.com/ZGHFvbAKGq — LibrarianShipwreck (@libshipwreck) March 25, 2017 “Coming soon to a collapsing democracy near you… https://t.co/ZGHFvbAKGq” Source: LibrarianShipwreck on Twitter Continue reading Coming soon to a collapsing democracy near you…

Health-care expert Larry Levitt says it’s the Republicans who own Obamacare now—and here’s what they can do with it. They already defunded advertising budgets when it was time for people to sign up, … Continue reading Will Obamacare Really Explode? – POLITICO Magazine

By David L. Glotzer An Employer of Last Resort, also known as a job guarantee (JG), is exactly what it sounds like. It is a promise by the government through either private partners … Continue reading Employer Of Last Resort: A Completely American Solution To Unemployment

I’m intrigued by Modern Monetary Theory, which maintains governments can create (or ‘print’) money to fill public needs and can’t go into debt to themselves, though they should … Continue reading Can we come out now that deficit hysteria is over?

Economists traditionally dominate policy making in Washington, but they don’t have all the answers. Sociologists have a lot to teach us. That being unemployed is much more than just being unemployed… the … Continue reading What if Sociologists Had as Much Influence as Economists?

A running clock of the tally of lost economic output/income of the United States aggregately since the greed-fueled 2008 financial crisis spawned the Lesser Depression (or Great Recession). Great tool, showing the … Continue reading United States Lost Output Clock

A plan to halve carbon emissions every decade, while green energy continues to double every five years, provides a simple but rigorous roadmap to tackle climate change, scientists say Source: ‘Moore’s law’ for carbon would defeat global warming | Environment | The Guardian Continue reading ‘Moore’s law’ for carbon would defeat global warming