Links 2/3/2021 | naked capitalism
zagonostra >How Poverty Makes Workers Less Productive – NPR Princeton psychologist Eldar Shafir. Poverty, they find, is like a parasite, consuming mental energy that could be put to more beneficial use…The authors conclude that giving workers cash upfront helped alleviate the mental burden of their financial problems and freed them to be more productive Planet Money -THE ECONOMY EXPLAINED. My, my, I haven’t visited this sector of the alternative universe in years, since I stopped listening to NPR news. I can still hear echoes of the irritating, puerile sounding narrator’s voice. I eve...
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