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What is at stake for workers?

Why building a fairer and more just society will require unity and serious reflection

Where Is Trump? His silence is deafening.

A legislative analysis had estimated the cost of the proposed system to be $400 billion annually, but a study released by the nurses Wednesday estimates the yearly cost would be $331 billion as of 2017. The estimate was made by the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in a study partly financed by the nurses association.

Trump's waffling, then, was not between a pro-climate agenda and an anti-climate one. Rather, the indecision was on the level of strategy on how best to dismantle environmental regulations.

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, the guru of “conscious capitalism,” has long argued the Whole Foods supermarket chain runs on a business model of creativity and innovation that outsmarts the competitive pressures of capitalism’s for-profit system . But, there is no “fix” to the corporate compulsion to produce more, more cheaply, for more profit. It’s written into capitalism’s DNA. And today the chain is floundering and a potential buyout is on the horizon.

But Will They Finally Send One? To deal with a Trump administration, the tribal nation might now want to use that 200-year-old treaty right.

When masses of workers start to lose their jobs to automation, workers will find it even more difficult to pay for the social insurance that provides them with a safety net. Therefore says Varoufakis we need another way to protect workers and another way to pay for it.

My hope is that this presentation of the underlying views of a majority of Americans will enable readers to oppose the false prophets of further accommodation with the right, and to arm themselves with the knowledge that time, demographics, and the American people are on the side of progressives. Reconciling the views of Americans with how they vote I will have to leave to others.

True, the Republicans played hardball and blocked many of his initiatives, but Obama did little to fight back in kind. If he was a community organizer, he was from the most timid in that genre. He kept extending a hand to the Republican dog that kept biting it at every overture.