I have two pieces up today on the New Republic site.
Piece One: Why Zeynep Ton's "The Case for Good Jobs," which argues forcefully that treating workers badly hurts the bottom line, is not going to close the sale without labor unions, antitrust action, a higher minimum wage that rises with inflation, and a regulatory choke chain on private equity:
https://newrepublic.com/.../workers-treated-better-future
Piece Two:
The debt-limit negotiations won't end happily for Kevin McCarthy.
https://newrepublic.com/.../debt-limit-talks-spell-doom...
Timothy Noah /
npub1ww…txtya
2023-05-26 15:46:03
Author Public Key
npub1wwylm3swm6kh8hwjemzdnnn3hvgwccqmng3htawj75j3tv05ywysjtxtyaPublished at
2023-05-26 15:46:03Event JSON
{
"id": "88325027cee0be6b821141597b011da5bf07b0b05cb50f1eb79453a26b308e05",
"pubkey": "7389fdc60edead73ddd2cec4d9ce71bb10ec601b9a2375f5d2f52515b1f42389",
"created_at": 1685115963,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"mostr",
"https://journa.host/users/TimothyNoah/statuses/110435759789174645"
]
],
"content": "I have two pieces up today on the New Republic site.\nPiece One: Why Zeynep Ton's \"The Case for Good Jobs,\" which argues forcefully that treating workers badly hurts the bottom line, is not going to close the sale without labor unions, antitrust action, a higher minimum wage that rises with inflation, and a regulatory choke chain on private equity:\nhttps://newrepublic.com/.../workers-treated-better-future\nPiece Two: \nThe debt-limit negotiations won't end happily for Kevin McCarthy.\nhttps://newrepublic.com/.../debt-limit-talks-spell-doom...",
"sig": "01506c5b57e4648b23ec452db148e4e7128b4d46deccf8e7456109ef2614ce09fabc62cbbc873eba04ddbc0b36ac3eb34eec9e2816020ebb39e3df667bfb79a8"
}