Labor

Earlier this year a Trump draft executive order on foreign worker visas was leaked to the press and revealed the administration's intention to craft legislation prioritizing “the interests of American workers and — to the maximum degree possible — the jobs, wages, and well-being of those workers.”  That executive order was never issued, but it appears that some of the ideas it contained are now winding their way through the Trump administration.

Authored by Eric Zuesse via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

Majorities want single-payer, but not from the government

58 % of Americans want «Replacing the ACA with a federally funded healthcare program providing insurance for all Americans». Only 37% oppose it. A tiny 5% have no opinion. That’s from a Gallup poll published 16 May 2016, «Majority in U.S. Support Idea of Fed-Funded Healthcare System».

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,

There is a really big crisis coming.

Think about it this way.

After 8 years and a 230% stock market advance the pension funds of Dallas, Chicago, and Houston are in severe trouble. But it isn’t just these municipalities that are in trouble, but also most of the public and private pensions that still operate in the country today.

Continuous, aggressive innovation has been a key component of America's success since its founding over 200 years ago.  As such, the country's taxing authorities have historically gone to great lengths to encourage innovation through tax incentives, public private partnerships, etc.  That is, until now.

In a rather stunning Quartz interview a few weeks back, Bill Gates, who ironically made his fortune from innovation, proposed that automation should be taxed rather than incentivized.

Via TheAntiMedia.org,

Craving more of a science fiction-style existence? Perhaps you should seek a job with one of the companies at Epicenter, an employment hub in Sweden.

The Associated Press reported Monday that companies there have begun implanting microchips in their employees, marking the first time the practice has been used on a broad scale.

“What could pass for a dystopian vision of the workplace is almost routine at the Swedish start-up hub Epicenter,” AP reports. “