Happy New Year.
I’ve put a bunch of interesting articles up on Its Our Economy recently. Thought you’d find some of interest.
KZ
Homeless die 30 years before the average person
January 1, 2012
By Jennifer Cockerell The Independent, December 2011 Homeless people can expect to die 30 years before the average person, research has found. A study showed that homeless men are dying at an average of 47 years and homeless women at …
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Medical Journal Article: 14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout
January 1, 2012
Impact Seen As Roughly Comparable to Radiation-Related Deaths After Chernobyl; Infants Are Hardest Hit, With Continuing Research Showing Even Higher Possible Death Count. By Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman International Journal of Health Services, December 19, 2011 An estimated 14,000 …
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E.P.A. Issues Limits on Mercury Emissions
January 1, 2012
The first time the federal government has enforced limits on chemicals emitted by the burning of fossil fuels. By JOHN M. BRODER New York Times, December 21, 2011 Getty ImagesLisa P. Jackson, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, unveiling the …
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Remembering Poverty Before the Safety Net
January 1, 2012
By Dan Morgan Huffington Post, December 22, 2011 Early in my reporting career — nearly half a century ago — my editor sent me out on a freezing pre-Christmas day to do a story on poverty in northeast Washington, D.C. …
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Obama Nominates Carlyle Group Partner to The Federal Reserve Board of Governors
January 1, 2012
Counter PsyOps December 31, 2011 While on vacation in Hawaii, Obama tapped Jerome Powell to serve on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Powel served as the undersecretary for finance under the president George H. W. Bush and was a …
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All Those Damn Kids Have Cell Phones Though, Don’t They?
January 1, 2012
Teach Real, December 31, 2009 My uncle is a Republican. He says he is a Democrat, but then begins defending rich people like they are going to be thrown out of their houses and begin starving any minute now. This …
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January 1, 2012
By PAUL KRUGMAN New York Times, December 20011 “The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.” So declared John Maynard Keynes in 1937, even as F.D.R. was about to prove him right by trying …
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January 1, 2012
Satellites find supply falling mostly due to agriculture By Devin Powell Science News, January 14th, 2012; Vol.181 #1 (p. 5) Enlarge Drying OutA simulation based on data from the GRACE satellites and historical weather records reveals the effects of this …
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Corporate Monopolies Seek to ‘Dominate Green Economy’
December 31, 2011
SciDev.net December 29, 2011 NEW DEHLI – The global push towards a ‘green economy’ risks being hijacked by large corporate monopolies trying to gain control over natural resources, a report has warned. A report released earlier this month has warned …
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FDA Draws Criticism After U-Turn on Antibiotics in Animal Feed
December 31, 2011
Environmental groups dismayed after agency drops long-held plan to regulate use of human antibiotics fed to healthy animals by Karen McVeigh The Guardian/UK, December 29, 2011 Environmental and consumer groups have condemned the US Food and Drug Administration’s move to …
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Another Face of the US Recession: Homeless Children
December 31, 2011
By Tom Brown Reuters, December 25, 2011 As her mother sat in a homeless shelter in downtown Miami, talking about her economic struggles and loss of faith in the U.S. political system, 3-year-old Aeisha Touray blurted out what sounded like …
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The Big Lie: Wall Street has Destroyed the Wonder That Was America
December 31, 2011
By Michael Thomas The Daily Beast, December 28, 2011 Imagine a vast field on which a terrible battle has recently been fought, the bare ground cratered by fusillade after fusillade of heavy artillery, trees reduced to blackened stumps, wisps of …
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Half of America In Poverty? The Facts Say It’s True
December 31, 2011
By Paul Buchheit CommonDreams.org, December 27, 2011 Recent reports suggest that almost 50% of Americans are in poverty or at a “low income” level. The claim is based on a new supplemental measure by the Census Bureau that includes health …
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December 30, 2011
This is what the Obama health law is leading to — high deductible plans, higher premiums and inadequate coverage, plans Americans are forced to buy. It will lead to more bankruptcy and foreclosure caused by health crisis for people with …
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Corporate Government Taking Hold in Europe, Threatening Social Safety Net and Euro Democracy
December 30, 2011
An American style corporate-government is taking hold in Europe, revolving doors between corporations and government, policies that support big business interests and polices that undermine the social safety net. Below is a report from a watchdog website, the Corporate Europe …
Local Businesses are Best for the Local Economy
December 28, 2011
Growing local best way to boost economic growth A study shows that bucks spent at locally owned businesses have the biggest bang. Portland Press Herald December 14, 2011 click image to enlarge Stephanie Berry of Portland shops at Longfellow …
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Germany Avoids the Race to the Bottom: Pays Workers More and Produces More Autos
December 28, 2011
How Germany Builds Twice as Many Cars as the U.S. While Paying Its Workers Twice as Much By Frederick Allen Forbes, December 21, 2011 A BMW assembly plant in Leipzig, Germany. In 2010, Germany produced more than 5.5 million automobiles; …
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Community Banks Can Be Very Different than the Big Banks
December 28, 2011
The Bank Around the Corner Brendan Bannon for The New York Times Patrick J. Cullen, the president, and his daughter, Colleen C. Young, the chief financial officer, oversee the Bank of Cattaraugus, the only one in town. By ALAN FEUER …
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Cities Can Create Their Own Banks
December 28, 2011
A Municipal Bank In San Francisco? City Explores Revolutionary New Model By Aaron Sankin Huffington Post, November 17, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO — On a typically foggy San Francisco morning, a few hundred protesters stood on the sidewalk in front of …
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Poverty Comes to U.S. Suburbs To Those Who Never Experienced it Before
December 28, 2011
America’s Best Kept Secret: Rising Suburban Poverty
By MICHELLE HIRSCH, The Fiscal Times, December 27, 2011
For years, the food pantry in Crystal Lake, Ill., a bedroom community 50 miles west of Chicago, has catered to the suburban …
