Category: The Great Escape, Angus Deaton

AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce The plight of Labor today. It can be Bright using Clean Slate Laws.

February 2, 2020

Labor has lost wage gains and power over the last 50yrs. The Clean Slate is a collection of Laws, reestablishing Labor’s rights. Our future can be right with a Labor friendly Administration. Vote for change, that helps all of us and restores upward Mobility. Unionize! … More AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce The plight of Labor today. It can be Bright using Clean Slate Laws.

AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce Economy slowing to 2.1 down from 2.9 GDP as consumer spending lags. If you don’t pay employees, who will buy your products? Late Stage Capitalism is not sustainable. Corporate power merged with government erases our voice unless “we the People” vote TrumpsGOP out of office

January 30, 2020

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AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce The Trump administration is giving block grants to States providing diminished Medicaid assistance. First there were decreases in the Snap program and now States can decrease Medicaid rolls. Don’t despair, vote overwhelmingly to remove GOP out of office. Show them your vote counts.

January 30, 2020

http://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/30/health/medicaid-block-grant-trump.html

AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce A commission headed by Harvard, recommends sweeping changes to Labor Law & makes it easier to Unionize. A strong Labor voice, would assure higher wages and make it more difficult to classify employees as contractors. These Laws are ready once a more progressive administration takes over the White House. Our GDP and productivity will increase with well paid labor

January 23, 2020

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/23/overhaul-us-labor-laws-unions-workers-power-report

AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce Episode 11 links: Life vs Corporate Money, Plus events this week!

January 14, 2020

Video Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw5flR54muM&feature=youtu.be Episode #11  Description The Australian bush fires are very much in the news. Australian’s are fed up with their government’s policy of catering to the Coal Mining Industry. They know their Climate,  weather and death are due to the exploration and export of Coal & Fossil Fuels. One Billion animals have died in … More AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce Episode 11 links: Life vs Corporate Money, Plus events this week!

AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce Americans are indeed looking for help & hope. It’s not our fault administrations for 30-40 yrs have let us down. We’re dying in despair, says Angus Deaton, an economists, meaning suicide, drugs & alcohol are shortening our lives. Ray Dalio, agrees, Capitalism is broken . We can reverse our State of Despair with good policies. The minimum wage , if adjusted for inflation would be $22/hr not $7.25! Pay with dignity would help too!

January 9, 2020

http://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/opinion/sunday/deaths-despair-poverty.html

AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce Redlining , high rents, migration out of the original Black Communities led to high poverty rates in the Black LA Population. More social services , transportation & lower rents , healthcare, counseling services and education can solve our Racial divide & poverty. The money exists. Where’s Moral Investment where it counts?Building community is a step forward.

December 24, 2019

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/22/us/los-angeles-homeless-black-residents.html

AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce 200,000 manufacturing jobs were lost to overseas investment during Trumps administration. He could have saved, 14,400 by Executive Orders, stopping Corporations from laying off workers, if the Corporation did business with the US government. He broke his promises to Americans by catering to Lobbyists! “We the People “ got empty promises.

December 20, 2019

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/10/trump-workers-jobs-overseas-factories

AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce At least 10% of all workers have more than one job to earn a living. 28% of the work force may hold multiple jobs. Having 1 job is preferable, if an individual is well paid. However, in our current State of Inequality, having one job is not sufficient earnings. A new metric will help define our Labor force. However, Income Inequality is not sustainable for Americans. The USA is the most unequal of similar Nations.

December 18, 2019

http://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/upshot/multiple-jobs-united-states.html

AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce Finally, there is a proposal to change the GDP metrics to reflect everyone’s status & contribution to gross domestic product via distributed metrics. Than we’ll see who benefits from Society and who doesn’t in real time data. We’ll know why our happiness quotient is way down for the Middle Class! We know, our GDP doesn’t reflect our State of Inequality!

December 16, 2019

http://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/opinion/gdp-america.html