"For Romina Mayer, there was no question that she had to buy the KlimaTicket (the “Climate Ticket”) when it launched. For just €1095 per year, it gives her unlimited access to every form of public transportation in her country of Austria: All buses, undergrounds, trams and local, regional and national trains — private and public."
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/the-alpine-country-going-all-you-can-ride/
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/the-alpine-country-going-all-you-can-ride/
Reasons to be Cheerful
The Alpine Country Going All-You-Can-Ride
For Romina Mayer, there was no question that she had to buy the KlimaTicket (the “Climate Ticket”) when it launched. For just €1095 per year, it gives her unlimited access to every form of public transportation in her country of Austria: All buses, undergrounds…
Forwarded from Syndiegram (Bea 😉)
"Single-family zoning laws lead to sprawl, segregation and expensive real estate. They’ve also seemed untouchable — until now."
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/single-family-zoning-minneapolis-massachusetts/
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/single-family-zoning-minneapolis-massachusetts/
Reasons to be Cheerful
A Major Barrier to Affordable Housing is Finally Falling
Single-family zoning laws lead to sprawl, segregation and expensive real estate. They've also seemed untouchable -- until now.
Dog Days - MIC.pdf
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#MadeInChina - Issues 1-4 from 2018
"Among the key findings are that, across most demographic groups - but especially for young workers without a college degree - the incidence of lousy jobs has steadily and sharply risen for male workers since 1979, and for female workers since the late 1990s. [...]
There has been an astonishing decline in the number
of decent jobs generated per dollar of GDP since the 1980s, particularly for young workers without a college degree, but it also appears for those with at least a college degree. As should be expected, workers - both young and prime-age, male and female - appear to have responded to this four-decade collapse in job quality by dropping out of the labor force, at least since the late 1990s."
"Beyond outsourcing, employers make use of a myriad of methods to reduce labor costs. As the labor journalist Steven Greenhouse (2019) has put it: “As workers’ power has waned, many corporations have adopted practices that were far rarer — if not unheard-of — decades ago: hiring hordes of unpaid interns, expecting workers to toil 60 or 70 hours a week, prohibiting employees from suing and instead forcing them into arbitration (which usually favors employers), and hamstringing employees’ mobility by making them sign noncompete clauses.”"
https://equitablegrowth.org/working-papers/from-decent-to-lousy-jobs-new-evidence-on-the-decline-in-american-job-quality-1979-2017/
There has been an astonishing decline in the number
of decent jobs generated per dollar of GDP since the 1980s, particularly for young workers without a college degree, but it also appears for those with at least a college degree. As should be expected, workers - both young and prime-age, male and female - appear to have responded to this four-decade collapse in job quality by dropping out of the labor force, at least since the late 1990s."
"Beyond outsourcing, employers make use of a myriad of methods to reduce labor costs. As the labor journalist Steven Greenhouse (2019) has put it: “As workers’ power has waned, many corporations have adopted practices that were far rarer — if not unheard-of — decades ago: hiring hordes of unpaid interns, expecting workers to toil 60 or 70 hours a week, prohibiting employees from suing and instead forcing them into arbitration (which usually favors employers), and hamstringing employees’ mobility by making them sign noncompete clauses.”"
https://equitablegrowth.org/working-papers/from-decent-to-lousy-jobs-new-evidence-on-the-decline-in-american-job-quality-1979-2017/
Equitable Growth
From Decent to Lousy Jobs: New Evidence on the Decline in American Job Quality, 1979-2017 - Equitable Growth
This paper uses Current Population Survey data to document changes in job quality for 1979-2017 with measures of decent-, low- and lousy-wage jobs for groups defined by age, gender, education, race and nativity.
This is an incredibly interesting article, and I strongly recommend y'all to read it
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2022/02/23/the-wealth-of-nations-2/
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2022/02/23/the-wealth-of-nations-2/
Michael Roberts Blog
The wealth of nations
Marx’s first sentence in Capital Volume One is: “The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as an “immense accumulation of commodities”, its …