I came across economist Heather Boushey’s work first by stumbling on her article, “The coronavirus recession and economic inequality: A roadmap to recovery and long-term structural change.” I don’t bump into that many women writing about structural inequality, so I checked her out. That led me to read her 2019…
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Amazon official Tim Bray resigned from his position after Amazon leaders responded to safety complaints by warehouse workers with firings and derogatory statements about the workers, even while the company made changes to increase safety.
Rebels without a conscience On the ninth of August, I saw a sign. It was not a metaphorical sign, but a mundane handwritten sign duct-taped to a traffic cone. It was in the Tumwater Hill area, at the northern intersection of 5th Avenue and Bates Street, and it read: “Tumwater…
Sheriff Snaza was eaten by a bear. I should know: I was there. -- Poetry
Last month, we were made aware of the targeted defacement of a section of the Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural in Olympia. The defacement targeted one of the leaves making up the mural’s central olive tree, a leaf that was designed by artist Gail Tremblay of the Onondaga and Mi’kmaq nations in…
Like it or not, we all live in a capitalist society, and THAT is hard to deny. The implications of this are multiple, and vary according to the class location of the individuals within the system. If you are Lisa T. Su, the CEO of Advance Micro Devices, your salary for 2020 would have been $58.5 million.