Wednesday, May 30, 2018

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The average American worker takes less vacation time than a medieval peasant
http://www.businessinsider.com/american-worker-less-vacation-medieval-peasant-2016-11


A former sales representative for major drug manufacturer Insys Therapeutics, Inc. has admitted to charges she helped fuel the opioid addiction crisis by bribing doctors to prescribe a potent painkiller, authorities said.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/05/sales_rep_for_drug_company_admits_bribing_doctors.html


Ivanka Trump Wins China Trademarks, Then Her Father Vows to Save ZTE
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ivanka-trump-wins-china-trademarks-then-her-father-vows-to-save-zte/ar-AAxV5tE?ocid=ob-fb-enus-280


The president implied that children were being separated from their parents at the border because of a law enacted by Democrats.
Actually, the policy in question was enacted by his own administration.
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/29/615211215/fact-check-are-democrats-responsible-for-dhs-separating-children-from-their-pare?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180529


Right-Wing Extremists Are a Bigger Threat to America Than ISIS
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/02/12/right-wing-extremists-militants-bigger-threat-america-isis-jihadists-422743.html


Why Teachers Are Walking Out
https://sethnichols.wordpress.com/2018/05/17/why-teachers-are-walking-out/


Florida brewery unveils six-pack rings that feed sea turtles rather than kill them
http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2018/05/six-pack_rings_that_feed_sea_t.html


Even republican conspiracy theorists find Trump's accusations that a spy had been “embedded” in the 2016 Trump campaign as part of a secret conspiracy to undermine a presidency and the Constitution to be unfounded.
https://politics.myajc.com/blog/jay-bookman/opinion-trump-and-the-question-why/kgCxIrruBEUTBk9GBSPZiN/
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/30/trump-spygate-gowdy-fbi-615196?cmpid=sf


I notice that many people who support the right of businesses to choose not to hire or serve people because of their shade of skin, sexual orientation, religion, etc., and to punish NFL players for kneeling instead of standing, are mad at ABC for firing Roseanne Barr.


Extreme Inequality Helped Cause Both the Great Depression and the Great Recession
http://washingtonsblog.com/2010/12/extreme-inequality-helped-cause-both-the-great-depression-and-the-current-economic-crisis.html


Why economic inequality leads to collapse
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/feb/05/inequality-leads-to-economic-collapse


How Income Inequality Makes Economic Downturns Worse
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/07/inequality-and-the-recession/530190/

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