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Employ America |Heather Boushey Equality Is Good for Growth

https://employamerica.org/   “We need to recognize how economic power translates into political and social power, and reject old theories that treat the economy as a system governed by natural laws separate from society’s.” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/business/heather-boushey-biden-economic-inequality.html?referringSource=articleShare

Arresting National Decline (look at previous post too)

https://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2020/08/arresting-national-decline.html  

Stephen Miller’s Dystopian America & How did Americans become such Wimps?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/opinion/stephen-millers-dystopian-america.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage   How did Americans become such Wimps? https://www.juancole.com/2020/08/americans-thousands-security.html Says it all https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/08/what-will-the-real-american-resistance-look-like-chaotic-rebellion-or-organized-general-strikes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29 and wow https://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2020/08/what-will-real-american-resistance-look.html https://www.newamerica.org/weekly/americas-institutions-were-not-built-to-serve-communities-of-color/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20America%20Weekly%209320&utm_content=New%20America%20Weekly%209320+CID_cba9ec15fc5235a52ed64d57947ec00d&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor%20Newsletters&utm_term=Americas%20Institutions%20Were%20Not%20Built%20to%20Serve%20Communities%20of%20Color

Why does California have so many wildfires? There are many reasons, and climate change figures prominently.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/why-does-california-have-wildfires.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage  

Latinx and CEO pay Labor EPI atudy

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-surged-14-in-2019-to-21-3-million-ceos-now-earn-320-times-as-much-as-a-typical-worker/   https://www.epi.org/publication/latinx-workers-covid/

What Will the Real American Resistance Look Like — Chaotic Rebellion or Organized General Strikes?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/08/what-will-the-real-american-resistance-look-like-chaotic-rebellion-or-organized-general-strikes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29  

You Have Awakened a Sleeping Giant’ A new generation of activists in Thailand

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/opinion/thailand-protests.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage   Rap Against Dictatorship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKV7Keo68PM

Trump Administration Finalizes Plan to Open Arctic Refuge to Drilling

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/climate/alaska-oil-drilling-anwr.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

LIFEquakes Bruce Feiler On Life-Altering Transitions

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/18/892669586/author-bruce-feiler-on-life-altering-transitions   https://www.brucefeiler.com/books-articles/life-is-in-the-transitions/

How Trump Unmade U.S. Foreign Policy

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-08-11/present-disruption  

The Racial Wealth Gap Is About the Upper Classes

https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2020/06/29/the-racial-wealth-gap-is-about-the-upper-classes   https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/us/adolph-reed-controversy.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/ America’s Institutions Were Not Built to Serve Communities of Color https://www.newamerica.org/weekly/americas-institutions-were-not-built-to-serve-communities-of-color/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20America%20Weekly%209320&utm_content=New%20America%20Weekly%209320+CID_cba9ec15fc5235a52ed64d57947ec00d&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor%20Newsletters&utm_term=Americas%20Institutions%20Were%20Not%20Built%20to%20Serve%20Communities%20of%20Color

tragedy of the commons ‘Morality Pills’ May Be the US’s Best Shot at Ending the Coronavirus Pandemic, According to One Ethicist

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/08/morality-pills-may-be-the-uss-best-shot-at-ending-the-coronavirus-pandemic-according-to-one-ethicist.html  

FISCAL Should Governments Spend Away? Aug 3, 2020 RAGHURAM G. RAJAN

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/government-spending-debt-burden-on-future-generations-by-raghuram-rajan-2020-08  

Noema is a magazine exploring the transformations sweeping our world plan-for-a-circular-carbon-economy/

https://www.noemamag.com/the-plan-for-a-circular-carbon-economy/  

A new paper finds stimulus checks, small business aid, and “reopening” can’t rescue the economy

  Real-time data on how the economy responded to Covid-19 suggests the problem is the disease itself. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/6/17/21293353/coronavirus-covid-19-economy-recession-unemployment-raj-chetty America Could Control the Pandemic by October. Let’s Get to It. Six to eight weeks. That’s how long some of the nation’s leading public health experts say it would take to finally get the United States’ coronavirus epidemic under control. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-response-testing-lockdown.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/opinion/coronavirus-lockdown-unemployment-death.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

The Hijacking of Police Reform by Wealthy Opportunists Resembles the Harm Done to Public Schools

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/08/the-hijacking-of-police-reform-by-wealthy-opportunists-resembles-the-harm-done-to-public-schools.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29

Ben & Jerry's Social Justice and Monopoly

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/27/magazine/ben-jerry-interview.html?action=click&algo=als_engaged_control_desk_filter&block=editors_picks_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=265693696&impression_id=81ce5742-d42a-11ea-9b1e-87b734136cc8&index=2&pgtype=Article&region=ccolumn&req_id=46907294&surface=home-featured&action=click&module=editorContent&pgtype=Article&region=CompanionColumn&contentCollection=Trending