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The workforce shortage: Has anybody thought to ask workers about it? May 17, 202110:32 am Press critic Eric Boehlert has written a timely article about the failure of the press to do much more than parrot employers and Republican politicians who blame the inability to fill jobs on deadbeats who prefer to draw federal unemployment benefits. The line is repeated every time a state like Arkansas cuts off federal unemployment early (a $280 million loss to 64,000 people in Arkansas, not to mention the general economy.) Advertisement Rarely are actual workers, economists or labor experts consulted...

April 23, 2021 U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn called Georgia’s sweeping new voter suppression law “the new Jim Crow.” Voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams called it “Jim Crow 2.0” It’s all that. But in some ways – though certainly not including the prevalent racial terror and violence of the era – it’s much like old Jim Crow, wrapped up in a new package, one that’s only slightly less transparent than the laws enacted across the South in the late 1800s and early 1900s to deny Black people access to the ballot, along with many other rights.  And so the scene of the March 25 bill sig...

Most Philly seniors still aren’t vaccinated | Morning Newsletter Tommy Rowan, The Philadelphia Inquirer © MONICA HERNDON/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Kevin Cook at his home in Cherry Hill in March. Good morning, good people. Here are today’s top stories: And: Stereotypes of larger Black men still persist at the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd. Most of Philadelphia’s senior citizens have not yet received their COVID-19 vaccinations, despite being eligible for nearly a month and as the city prepares to vac...

Biden betting Bessemer Amazon union could help bring back America’s middle class Updated Mar 12, 2021; Posted Mar 12, 2021 Activists in New York City came out to show their support on Feb. 27, 2021, for the approximately 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, who will vote by mail on whether to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). The move would make them the first union at an Amazon facility in the country. (Ron Adar/SOPA Images via Zuma Press/TNS)TNS Facebook Share By Will Bunch The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS) and ...

I don't understand what gives Biden — like his predecessors Trump, Barack Obama and George W. Bush — either the legal or moral authority to unilaterally launch a military attack