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AI, Job Loss, and Productivity Growth

Dean Baker CEPR
The moral of the story is that there is nothing about AI technology that should lead to mass unemployment and inequality. If those are outcomes, it will be the result of how we structured the rules, not the technology itself.

Daniel Ellsberg, American Hero

Chip Gibbons Jacobin
Honoring Ellsberg requires not just recalling him as a historic figure, but carrying on his work and legacy to dismantle the machinery of war that has claimed far too many lives and end its accompanying regime of secrecy.

Massachusetts Green Bank Is Created

Gov. Maura Healey Mass.gov
Governor Healey Announces Creation of Massachusetts Community Climate Bank, Nation’s First Green Bank Dedicated to Affordable Housing

GOP Wants To Destroy Social Security As We Know It

Jake Johnson Common Dreams
"The largest group of House Republicans just released a budget that calls for massive tax cuts for the super-rich and raising the Social Security retirement age, a benefit cut for millions of Americans."

UPS Teamsters Vote To Strike

Chris Isidore CNN
If a strike does come, it would be the largest against a single employer in America’s history, as UPS (UPS) is the largest unionized employer in the private sector.

Not Brave, Not Free

Lee Rossi Cultural Daily
California poet Lee Rossi knows what’s wrong with America—but who will listen?