homelessness-is-about-affordability:-author-patrick-markee-on-the-housing-crisis-in-“new-gilded-age”

New York City housing advocate Patrick Markee’s new book, Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age, looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability. Homelessness, which affects millions across the United States, “has roots in structural economic changes, right-wing economic policies and systemic racism,” explains Markee. “There’s a reasonContinue Reading

jobs-report-reveals-continued-weakening-of-the-labor-market

In response to today’s jobs report, Center for Economic and Policy Research Senior Economist Dean Baker released the following statement:“The labor market continued to weaken in November. The unemployment rate rose to 4.6 percent, the highest level since September 2021.The economy generated just 64,000 jobs in the last two months,Continue Reading

good-vs.-evil:-a-matter-of-conscience

So much darkness. Along with all the rest, in quick succession, the shootings at Brown and Bondi Beach, the murder of director and activist Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, and then the responses. To the beloved Reiner’s awful end, a sick man-child spewed vile, loathsome filth that “says itContinue Reading