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A fair and solid crisis financing
Philipp Gerhartinger and Joseph Woss
2020-08-05 7:09 AM
The contrast between the EU and the US in COVID financing could hardly be greater. McDonald's operators, Marathon Oil (over $400 million), Exxon, Chevron and Sea World received relief and will reduce their future tax payments. Tax gifts characterize the US way of corruption and contradict these recommendations. (text/plain)
The state must cushion the economic impact
Heiner Flassbeck
2020-07-20 10:51 AM
Heiner Flassbeck expects a slump of the German GDP of 20-30%, Neither Trump nor Merkel said a word about stabilizing the economy. You can't just shut down the economy and then hope nothing happens. Companies, banks and people must be supported. Money must go to those now becoming unemployed.. (text/plain)
The Job Guarantee in the Corona Pandemic
Maurice Holgen and Dirk Ehnts
2020-07-06 1:39 PM
If the tax system is not reformed in an equitable manner, this will probably mean 10 to 20 years of cutbacks, starving basic services such as education, health, and care, as was the case in many European countries after the 2008 financial crisis. (text/plain)
Corona and the collapse of modernization
Roswitha Scholz and Herbert Bottcher
2020-05-22 10:44 AM
Corona is the trigger but not the cause of the worsening crisis situation. It will accelerate the disintegration of capitalism. Pragmatism and cooperation on an international scale are called for. Infrastructure socialism takes health care from the market and insists on the common good (text/plain)
Wave of layoffs in the US election campaign
Joachim Bischoff and Frank Adloff
2020-05-18 1:36 PM
The corona pandemic triggered the most massive job losses in the USA since the Great Depression in the 1930s. Unemployment rose to its highest level in more than 70 years.
In April alone, 20.5 million jobs outside agriculture were cut, according to the government (text/plain)
Hashtag#General Strike
Lukas Hermsmeier and Susan Boos
2020-04-29 11:56 AM
How do you prepare for the time when the affluent society crumbles? French intellectuals have even declared a new science - "collapsology." Solidarity is the humane and enlightened answer, not the assault rifle. Rep. Omar proposes a rent and mortgage moratorium. (text/plain)
History of an Eventful Myth: the 8-hour day
Elias Felten and Thomas Ritt
2020-04-11 11:13 AM
Since industrialization, it has been the norm for wage-earners of all ages, including children, to work 15 to 16 hours a day. There was no time for rest. An impoverishment of the working class was the result. (text/plain)
Dying to work at amazon
Muffy Sunde
2020-02-16 10:00 PM
The human cost of obscene profits (text/plain)
Less is more and Tightening the rules for the unemployed
Beate Finch and Simon Theurl
2020-01-29 9:08 PM
Gainful employment is just one form of work alongside others such as care work or voluntary work. Here I would like to endorse the model of the 30-hour week... There is a need to expand investment-based active labor market policy. (text/plain)
Finnish Prime Minister Marin Calls for a 4-Day-Week and 6-Hour-Day for Her Country
Patricia Huber
2020-01-06 2:17 PM
“A four-day work week, a six-hour workday. Why couldn’t it be the next step? Is eight hours really the ultimate truth? I believe people deserve to spend more time with their families, loved ones, hobbies and other aspects of life, such as culture. This could be the next step for us in working life.”
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Poor Despite Work
freitag.de and other German journals
2019-12-10 3:34 PM
Vancouver B.C. has 26 community centers that give an identity to working and nonworking persons. Three hours of free computer use, libraries, gyms, theaters, game rooms and $4 casserole dinners are among the many amenities. (text/plain)
The C.E.O. - A Fun Poem
Rene Sonsmann
2019-09-22 8:07 PM
BY RENE SONSMANN. SET: The play takes place in Heaven. The set is a bare stage. The stage is lit with a warm ethereal light. God is bathed in a strong spot light at all times. CHARACTERS: God and Adrian, a recently deceased arrival in Heaven. God is middle-aged, clean shaven (text/plain)
UN Forum Wrestles with Funding Development
Jubilee USA Network
2019-04-19 7:20 PM
After months of negotiations and four days of formal meetings, the United Nations voted on development policies at the fourth UN Financing for Development Forum. The UN meetings convene world leaders, ministers, governments, the IMF, World Bank and development groups. The annual process attempts to implement the 2015 Addis Ababa Action Agenda, an international agreement that includes policies on debt, tax, trade, transparency and aid. (text/plain)
IMF Warns of Global Financial Crisis Risk
Jubilee USA Network
2019-04-10 4:57 PM
For the second day in a row, the International Monetary Fund raised concerns of pending financial crisis. Ahead of the Spring IMF and World Bank meetings, the IMF released the Global Financial Stability Report, warning of "vulnerabilities" in corporate debt, house values and sovereign (country) debt. (text/plain)
Women’s History Month Book Launch for “High Voltage Women”
Mary Ann Curtis
2019-03-12 10:51 PM
Megan Cornish – Electrical Tradeswoman speaks at book launch of High Voltage Women. (text/plain)
Ten Years After the Financial Crash
Rudolf Hickel
2019-02-06 11:42 AM
US economic statistics are dubious since financial markets are based on financial products and money out of nothing. Tax havens, micro-second betting, stock buybacks and corruption through lobbying are market-distorting and cause revenue shortfalls. (text/plain)
Teacher Strike? Time for Labor Studies
johnk
2019-01-09 6:26 AM
With the strike looming, it's a good time to prepare for a little alternative, experiential education. Labor Studies! (text/plain)
The Death of Small Businesses in Big Cities, Explained
Rebecca Jennings and Jeremiah Moss
2018-11-28 3:43 PM
Not even shopping locally can save your favorite mom-and-pop — the problem is much, much bigger than that.
The legendary punk record store Bleecker Bob’s in 2008. The store closed in 2013 due to high rents and was replaced by a frozen yogurt chain. (text/plain)
Steer clear of work morality!
Steffen Nikolai Boddin
2018-09-09 12:10 PM
The change must begin with a fundamental collective questioning of our world of work and work morality. Everyone should have the chance to find meaning and identity outside the world of work and develop more freely. (text/plain)
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