"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
14.1 MB
#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 …
"The authors find that the average carbon footprint in the top 1% of emitters was more than 75-times higher than in the bottom 50%.
“The inequality is just insane,” the lead author of the study tells Carbon Brief. “If we want to reduce our carbon emissions, we really need to do something about the consumption patterns of the super-rich.”
A scientist not involved in the research says that “we often hear that actions taken in Europe or the US are meaningless when compared to the industrial emissions of China, or the effects of rapid population growth in Africa. This paper exposes these claims as wilfully ignorant, at best”."
https://www.carbonbrief.org/eradicating-extreme-poverty-would-raise-global-emissions-by-less-than-1
“The inequality is just insane,” the lead author of the study tells Carbon Brief. “If we want to reduce our carbon emissions, we really need to do something about the consumption patterns of the super-rich.”
A scientist not involved in the research says that “we often hear that actions taken in Europe or the US are meaningless when compared to the industrial emissions of China, or the effects of rapid population growth in Africa. This paper exposes these claims as wilfully ignorant, at best”."
https://www.carbonbrief.org/eradicating-extreme-poverty-would-raise-global-emissions-by-less-than-1