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Migrant workers

jeudi 13 juillet 2017 à 02:00

It takes time for the economy to adjust to fewer low-paid foreign migrant workers. In the short time, this causes dislocation.

Over a few years, Americans will adapt to taking the jobs migrant workers used to take, when these jobs are offered at decent pay rates. This is what the market is good at.

One adaptation needed will be to change the habits and laws that exclude a substantial fraction of Americans from so many kinds of jobs. A journalist published where the troll got the video he used to threaten CNN with violence, and now the journalist is receiving death threats from neo-Nazi supporters of the troll.

Cashless India

jeudi 13 juillet 2017 à 02:00

Why a ‘Cashless’ Society Would Hurt the Poor: A Lesson from India.

Downgrading public housing

jeudi 13 juillet 2017 à 02:00

The deeper cause of the big London housing project fire is a state determined to shrink and downgrade public housing.

Nuclear ban treaty

jeudi 13 juillet 2017 à 02:00

More than 120 countries agree to a treaty to ban all nuclear weapons.

The hard part is to get the countries with nuclear weapons to sign on.

Halving emissions by 2030

jeudi 13 juillet 2017 à 02:00

New Orleans is trying to set a good example by cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.

Alas, New Orleans has to share the same atmosphere and the same ocean with the rest of the US, which is going all out to maximize fossil fuel combustion. The city can't save itself. But the example may do some good.