“LA is vast. It is a city and a county. It is a global place, a Pacific Rim space, a “Third World” metropolis. It has all the contradictions of the world and all the world is condensed in it. The homes of rich, poor, middle class, Black, white, Asian, Latino have burned. Fire is coming […]
A New York State Supreme Court judge on Tuesday ordered New York City to reinstate — with back pay — sanitation workers who were fired for failing to get vaccinated for Covid-19, calling the vaccine mandate “arbitrary and capricious.” The city terminated over 1,750 public employees for failing to take the jab pursuant to an October 2021 […]
Similar to August and September, the total debt has not increased due to the current debt ceiling in place. Similar to August, the Treasury has raided public retirement accounts to continue funding government spending (light green bar below). Even so, Covid has forever shifted the landscape of US Debt. The chart below also highlights a trend that […]