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Trying Again for Full Employment

Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg Dollars & Sense
As prominent progressives talk up a federal job guarantee, what can we learn from earlier attempts to legislate full employment?

US Economy Faces Hit from Climate Change, Report Warns

Coral Davenport and Kendra Pierre-Louis The New York Times
Going forward, American exports and supply chains could be disrupted, agricultural yields could fall to 1980s levels by midcentury and fire season could spread to the Southeast, the report finds.

High Score, Low Pay: Why the So-Called Gig Economy Loves Gamification

Sarah Mason The Guardian
Supporters of Uber and Lyft drivers cheer.
Gamification is the use of game elements in non-game contexts. Incentivizing workers based on individual competition and bonuses isn’t new, but when Sarah Mason became a Lyft driver she found the gig economy had taken gamification to another level.

Venezuela: Seized Factory Was Well Stocked but Wasn't Producing

teleSUR
Warehouses belonging to Kimberly Clark Corporation — which recently had its factory seized and handed over to the workers — were found to be full of raw materials, despite the insistence from the factory's owners that they could not produce goods, Venezuelan Industry Minister Miguel Perez Abad confirmed Friday.

#StopArmingIsrael

Palestinian BDS National Committee Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC)
Ten years of siege, two years since the 2014 Israeli massacre - it’s high time for accountability and for a two-way military embargo on Israel!

The True Cost of California’s Proposition 47

Nell Bernstein Equal Voice
The tide is beginning to turn on criminal justice. California is again setting the national tone, first by rolling back juvenile incarceration at unprecedented rates and now, through the same ballot initiative system that ushered in those extreme sentences, by passing voter-driven laws to roll back those laws and clean up the damage they created.

Bikini Islanders Still Deal with Fallout of US Nuclear Tests, 70 Years Later

Timothy J. Jorgensen The Conversation
The U.S. had very big plans for the little atoll of Bikini. Forcing the 167 residents to relocate, they started to prepare Bikini as an atomic bomb test site. Two test bombings scheduled for that summer were intended to be very visible demonstrations of the United States’ newly acquired nuclear might. Who could have foreseen that even now – 70 years later – the Marshall Islanders would still be suffering the aftershocks from the nuclear bomb testing on Bikini Atoll?