Baja California Any list of Biden administration’s accomplishments for workers has to include the appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), especially its General Counsel, and the pathbreaking work they are doing. Admittedly some of this is low hanging fruit in undoing the pro-management bias of the Trump board. Another piece of the …
Category: Policy
A Couple of Controversial Climate Moves That Might Work
San Pedro Sula I don’t associate Canada with cynicism, quite the opposite. Reading a new book, The Petroleum Papers, that included in its focus an emphasis on the role that the Canadian tar sands has played in our worsening climate, made it a little harder to ignore the political and economic deals with the …
Opioid Deaths Compounded by Medical Racial Bias
San Pedro Sula Even as Covid recedes, there are other epidemics still raging, and the response is racially biased. That’s the takeaway from a devastating article in Scientific American, appropriately entitled “Overdose Inequality.” Let’s start with one-million opioid deaths in the last 30 years. Then let’s move to the fact that in the last …