Chamber of Commerce urges Biden to double visa quota amid nationwide worker shortageYahoo News. Good to see the CoC finally coming out in support of open borders
‘When is this going to end?’: US factory town devastated by jobs moving overseas Guardian (Re Silc). The town is in West Virginia, so why not see what President Manchin can do?
Policies That Make the Poor Less PoorEclogiselle
Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in US Wage Inequality Daron Acemoglu & Pascual Restrepo, NBER.
Bacteria converts degraded plastic bottles into vanilla flavoring New Atlas
Enthusiastic Amateurs Advance Science As They Hunt For Exotic Mushrooms NPR
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Particularly if you’re in the corporate boardroom and letting Twitter flamewars dictate company policy.
Why, it’s like “Twitter sentiment is a Styrofoam iceberg. You may think 9/10 of it is underwater, but actually, 9/10 of it is visible,” to coin an Insta-phrase. Somebody should write a book about this stuff.
THE 50-100 PAY GAPThese 20 Harsh Facts About Income and Wealth Inequality Will Shock You Capital & Main
California Has a Plan to Pay the Back Rent for Low-Income Tenants. All of It. NYT
Tabloids Want Crime, Not Rent, on NYC Voters’ Minds FAIR
Amazon Workers Call for Strike on Prime Day in Germany Motherboard
Amazon Prime Day Is a Nightmare for Amazon Workers Jacobin
Why Are Billionaires Presumed Innocent? Daily Poster, David Sirota.
Google Faces EU Antitrust Probe of Alleged Ad-Tech Abuses WSJ
Biden’s Antitrust Revolutionaries Project Syndicate
Tucker Carlson And Media Elites Cozy Up To Private Equity Moguls Daily Poster