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.

Friday Nite Videos | July 6, 2018

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Workplace Safety: Gun Edition. What Is the Tragedy of the Commons? Movie | Won't You Be My Neighbor? Exposed: Betsy DeVos’s Record Of Dismantling Student Protections. Noam Chomsky: From Geopolitical Conflict to Nuclear Abolition.

Workplace Safety: Gun Edition

While we’re celebrating America, what’s more American than gun violence? Michelle Wolf mocks the NRA’s notion of a good guy with a gun.

What Is the Tragedy of the Commons?

What happens when individuals each seek to exploit a shared resource without rules that protect the common good? Another story of markets being irrational. 

Movie | Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Morgan Neville's new movie Won't You Be My Neighbor? documents the unlikely stardom of Fred Rogers and his long-running children's show. In theaters now.