Author Malcolm Harris on why millennials need a revolution.
~~ https://www.vox.com/2019/2/4/18185383/millennials-capitalism-burned-out-malcolm-harris
America’s Housing Affordability Crisis Only Getting Worse (via Forbes)
A limited supply of homes for sale, a deepening construction labor shortage and high land costs continue to fuel the housing crisis,
Ranking the Trump Economy (via www.bloomberg.com)
The president brags about U.S. prosperity. But conditions improved more under his predecessors.
The World Economy Just Can’t Escape Its Low-Growth, Low-Inflation Rut (via www.nytimes.com)
Just when we thought we were out, global deflationary forces have pulled us back in.
~~ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/27/upshot/world-economy-low-growth-low-interest-deflation.html
Chicago officers acquitted of attempted cover-up in Laquan McDonald killing (via NBC News)
Cook County Judge Domenica Stephenson rendered her verdict a day before the sentencing of Jason Van Dyke, who shot McDonald.
Opinion: Workforce training can’t solve middle class jobs crisis (via The Mercury News)
There are lots of low income and high income jobs, but fewer and fewer middle class — and training more workers to fill nonexistant opportunities isn’t helping.
US labor market tightens, wages grow moderately, Fed says (via CNBC)
Labor markets tightened across the U.S. as businesses struggled to find workers at any skill level and wages generally grew moderately.
~~ https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/16/us-labor-market-tightens-wages-grow-moderately-fed-says.html
Where exactly does the GOP draw the line on white supremacy? (via latimes.com)
Republicans are climbing over themselves this week to punish Rep. Steve King, the Iowa Republican who has made a career out of being hostile to non-white immigrants. What changed?
~~ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/enterthefray/la-ol-steve-king-20190116-story.html
To make companies moral, make the employees the owners (via Fast Company)
Having stockholders can offer confusing incentives for business owners with a mission; but not if those stockholders are employees who believe in the mission, too.
The Government Shutdown Reveals a Brutal Truth About Life That Few People Are Willing to Admit (via Inc.com)
One that has almost nothing to do with politics, yet everything to do with your future.
