Links

Congress just killed a rule that would have made it easier for consumers to sue banks — here's why people are so upset
http://www.businessinsider.com/gop-trump-bill-kill-obama-cfpb-arbitration-lawsuit-rule-2017-10


The Great Kansas Tax Cut Experiment Crashes And Burns
https://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2017/06/07/the-great-kansas-tax-cut-experiment-crashes-and-burns/#261c88b45508


Rising Seas Are Flooding Virginia’s Naval Base, and There’s No Plan to Fix It
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10252017/military-norfolk-naval-base-flooding-climate-change-sea-level-global-warming-virginia


U.S. Unprepared to Face Costs of Climate Change, GAO Says
The risks are big, and they’re rising, a new report says—just as the Trump administration is changing how it calculates costs to make them look smaller.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25102017/climate-change-costs-gao-report-wildfires-hurricane-health-trump


Blood-thinning drugs 'can reduce risk of dementia by up to 48%' in people with an irregular heartbeat
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/25/blood-thinning-pills-irregular-heartbeat-patients-dementia-stroke


The terrible truth about your tin of Italian tomatoes
[Things like this also happen in the U.S.]
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/oct/24/the-terrible-truth-about-your-tin-of-italian-tomatoes


The FCC just ended a decades-old rule designed to keep TV and radio under local control
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/10/24/the-fcc-just-ended-a-decades-old-rule-designed-to-keep-tv-and-radio-under-local-control/?nid&utm_term=.a1c4bf8814d7


Intergenerational social mobility
https://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2017/10/intergenerational-social-mobility.html


EPA nominee may be illegally circumventing confirmation
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/356935-dems-epa-nominee-may-be-circumventing-confirmation


Harassment, then helplessness, in state capitals
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/357058-harassment-then-helplessness-in-state-capitals


4 Surging Facebook Scams You Need to Avoid
http://blog.aarp.org/2017/10/06/4-surging-facebook-scams-you-need-to-know/