Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Wednesday Morning Links

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.

- Ajit Zacharias, Thomas Masterson and Fernando Rios-Avila study the economic well-being of U.S. households, and find a stagnant standard of living including a falling base income for the median family. Josh Bivens and Ben Zipperer confirm that in the past few decades, workers have only seen meaningful wage gains at the end of extended periods of low unemployment - meaning they're the last to benefit from economic growth. And Craig Chamberlain highlights new research showing how stronger unions benefit all kinds of workers.

- Danny Dorling points out how the UK is seeing tens of thousands of "excess deaths" this year - and how the Conservative government isn't even willing to acknowledge a problem.

- Patrick Collinson reports on landlords' discrimination against people who receive housing benefits in the UK.

- Meagan Day makes the case for a publicly-owned bank to ensure that needed financial services are available and affordable for everybody.

- Finally, Alejandra Bravo writes about the need to treat Doug Ford's attacks on democracy as a reason to organize, rather than allowing him to breed public apathy and resignation.

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