Education Freedom Wins Big in Arizona Instead of being attached to public schools, funding follows students to learning options they choose. Reason · Oct 12, 2022
US Supreme Court begins session amid crisis of public trust Recent survey finds just 47 percent of Americans trust US top court, which is taking up new set of contentious cases. Al Jazeera · Oct 3, 2022
Kim Kardashian Must Pay $1.26 Million for Illegally Promoting Cryptocurrency Tokens Plus: SCOTUS is back in session, governments around the world are getting bigger, and more... Reason · Oct 3, 2022
US supreme court to decide cases with ‘monumental’ impact on democracy Many fear the potential for extreme rightwing rulings on topics ranging from affirmative action to voting rights The Guardian - US · Oct 2, 2022
Take care of middle managers in the hybrid world The middle is bearing the brunt of the turmoil. Axios · Sep 29, 2022
U.S. mood ticks up with lower gas prices That helps President Biden and Democrats ahead of midterms, 41 days away. Axios · Sep 28, 2022
More States Poised To Ease Marijuana Laws After Election Day Ten years after Colorado and Washington embraced legalization, the movement looks unstoppable. Reason · Sep 26, 2022
Idaho support for LGBTQ rights grew after same-sex marriage became legal. What happened? BOISE, Idaho — A Jan. 29, 2015, public hearing at the Idaho Capitol seemed like a turning point for LGBTQ rights in the state. Tribune News Service · Sep 20, 2022
Gallup book: Global rise of unhappiness preceded COVID Gallup CEO Jon Clifton is out this week with "Blind Spot," a book about improving lives through more and better data. Axios · Sep 16, 2022
"Quiet quitting" isn't the right answer Doing your job, without working like crazy 24/7, isn't "quitting." Labor unions have always understood that Salon · Sep 14, 2022
Do the Supreme Court's Low Approval Ratings Show it is Undergoing a "Legitimacy Crisis"? The Court's popularity has indeed fallen. But its relatively low approval ratings are neither unprecedented, nor worse than those of the other branches of government. Reason · Sep 12, 2022
Goodbye, Globalization? As American politicians turn against economic openness, history suggests the consequences could be dire. Reason · Sep 11, 2022
Stuart Rothenberg: Learning from the 1998 and 2002 midterms The 1998 and 2002 elections remain the only times since 1932 that the president’s party has gained House seats in a midterm. Do those elections tell us anything about this year’s election? Tribune News Service · Sep 8, 2022
Learning from the 1998 and 2002 midterms - Roll Call Are we heading toward another anomalous midterm election, like those in 1998 and 2002? That might be the case, Stuart Rothenberg writes. Roll Call · Sep 7, 2022
Tribune News Service · Sep 7, 2022 Commentary: Citizens are united and legislators don’t represent us According to the most recent data from Pew Research Center, National Election Studies, Gallup, ABC/The Washington Post, CBS/New York Times and CNN polls, only one-fifth of Americans say they trust the federal government to do what is right. The June 12 headline from a NBC News article sums it up:…
Reason · Sep 7, 2022 Despite Polarization, Americans Agree: School Learning Losses Are a System Failure Democrats and Republicans share dismay over how educators handled the pandemic and support alternatives.
Axios · Sep 7, 2022 Most workers say they're "quiet quitting" Americans are putting more distance between themselves and their jobs.
Axios · Sep 7, 2022 The rise of interracial marriage — and its approval rating It's one of the starkest statistical changes in American opinion.
Tribune News Service · Sep 6, 2022 ‘Quiet quitters’ make up half of the US workforce, Gallup finds About half of U.S. workers could be described as “quiet quitters,” according to new research by survey firm Gallup, meaning they fulfill their job description but are psychologically detached from their work.
Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 5, 2022 Labor’s brewing renaissance: Union drives gain steam at Starbucks, other coffee shops The success of SEIU in organizing baristas in Chicago has led to the arduous task of negotiating first contracts in settings where worker turnover can be high.
Financial Times · Sep 4, 2022 US trade unions: Inside the revival brewing at Starbucks The grassroots effort to organise workers at the coffee chain has spread to over 200 stores. Can it re-energise the labour movement in the US?
Los Angeles Times · Sep 1, 2022 Commentary: With a volatile US electorate, no one can predict what’ll happen in November’s midterms In Maine, where I spend part of every year, the weather is highly changeable, so we like to say: If you don’t like the weather, don’t worry — just wait a few hours and it will be different.
WEKU · Aug 31, 2022 Support for labor unions in the U.S. is at a 57-year high A new poll from Gallup shows that support for unions is the highest it's been since 1965. This comes as workers at companies like Starbucks, Amazon and Chipotle have lately launched union drives.
The Independent UK · Aug 30, 2022 Fetterman campaign calls on Biden to decriminalise weed ahead of president’s Pennsylvania visit ‘I don’t want to hear any bull**** coming out of Dr Oz’s campaign trying to conflate decriminalizing marijuana with seriously harmful crime’
The Guardian - US · Aug 30, 2022 Americans’ support for labor unions at highest in nearly 60 years Gallup survey finds 71% of US residents approve of unions amid a wave of successful organizing efforts