Former Virginia hospital worker on trial in death of inmate, patient Irvo Otieno – WTVR
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“The spike in academic unionism documented in the 2024 Directory is both the product of long-running trends and contemporary developments. From the beginnings of modern academic unionism, collective bargaining has generally appealed to those most excluded from the prestige and material benefits of the academy’s ivory towers. While it was community college professors who once comprised the bulk of the organized professoriate, a new underpaid and overworked academic precariat composed of contingent or fixed-term instructors and researchers, as well as student employees, have increasingly sought union representation. “
Michigan passes bills allowing home care workers to unionize – WILX10
“Workers are making a little less than $14, well below the $20 living wage for single adults in Michigan.”
Monopoly Round-Up: Corporate Slumlords and Housing Cartels – Matt Stoller/BIG
“What’s happening is the consolidated homebuilders are starting to work with consolidated corporate landlords to transition Americans away from homeownership. In 2021, Invitation Homes and one of the builders Pulte cut a deal where Pulte is building 7,500 homes specifically for Invitation to buy and rent. To put it another way, where did the starter home go? Well, it’s still there. It’s just no longer a home you can buy, it’s one you have to rent.”
The data US politicians are distorting show that illegal immigrants are less likely to commit murder than native Americans…Note: Heads of state routinely order homicides, and aid and commit genocide, with legal impunity.
Sunday, September 29, 2024
“Tears came into his eyes again, making the avenue shiver, causing the houses to shake—his heart swelled, lifted up, faltered, and was dumb. Out of joy strength came, strength that was fashioned to bear sorrow: sorrow brought forth joy. Forever? This was Ezekiel’s wheel, in the middle of the burning air forever…”
– James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain
Rediscovering James Baldwin: A Look at His Most Powerful Books
Circuit judge strikes down Arlington’s ‘missing middle’ housing plan – msn/WaPost
“‘This decision represents a textbook example of why we have the housing crisis we do,’ said Goff, a pastor at Arlington Presbyterian Church. ‘It is a shame that a few wealthy and well-connected owners of single-family detached homes can derail a democratic process that was years in the making.’
“The Arlington County Board’s unanimous vote last year on “Expanded Housing Options” (EHO) made it easier to build residential buildings with up to four — and, in most cases, six — apartments in areas that had for decades been set aside for one house with a yard on each lot. The plan made Arlington the first locality in the D.C. region — and much of the East Coast — to loosen its zoning rules for more of this missing middle housing, a contested idea that has nonetheless been adopted by at least 20 localities and five states.”
AEI testimony to Congress on increasing housing supply: