Bloomberg: Catalans would pay a high price for independence

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-06/catalans-would-pay-a-high-price-for-independence

Janus is the latest attack on workers’ rights to organize and bargain collectively

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Janus is the latest attack on workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively // Economic Policy Institute Blog
http://www.epi.org/blog/janus-is-the-latest-attack-on-workers-rights-to-organize-and-bargain-collectively/

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will hear Janus v. AFSCME, a case that could profoundly affect the ability of public-sector workers to improve their wages and working conditions. The case threatens the right of the majority of workers, through their democratically elected union, to bargain a contract with their public employer that requires every employee covered by the contract to pay their fair share of the costs of negotiating it, administering it, and enforcing it. The Court decided this issue forty years ago in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education and it has been the law of the land since.

Janus is nothing more than the latest attack on workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively. The Court considered this issue last term in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, which resulted in a 4-4 split decision upholding a lower court decision that permits public employee unions to assess fees on non-members who benefit from collective bargaining and union representation and who unions are required to represent. In any other circumstance, it would be outrageous to demand the benefits of a common enterprise without paying one's fair share. Union representation is no different. Eliminating fair share fees protects people who want to get something for nothing and as a result, starves unions.

It is profoundly undemocratic to elevate the objections of a minority over the democratically determined choices of the majority of workers. This principle is what is at stake in Janus. The decision in this case will determine the future of effective unions, democratic decision making in the workplace, and the preservation of good, middle-class jobs in public employment.


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I helped create the GOP tax myth. Tax cuts don’t equal growth. - Washington Post Unpopular Delusions and the Madness of... [feedly]

I helped create the GOP tax myth. Tax cuts don't equal growth. - Washington Post Unpopular Delusions and the Madness of...
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2017/09/i-helped-create-the-gop-tax-myth-tax-cuts-dont-equal-growth-washington-post-unpopular-delusions-and-the-madness-of.html

• I helped create the GOP tax myth. Tax cuts don't equal growth. - Washington Post
• Unpopular Delusions and the Madness of Elites - Paul Krugman
• Why Public Health Insurance Could Help, Even if You Don't Want It - NYTimes
• Tax Cuts for "Pass-Through" Businesses are Cuts for Rich People - Dean Baker
• The Trump Tax Reform's Pass-Through Boondoggle - Justin Fox
• Economists Have No Use for Republican Tax Cuts - Noah Smith
• The signalling content of asset prices for inflation - VoxEU
• Voodoo Gets Even Voodooier - Paul Krugman
• The View from 2012: The Hiatus in Per Capita US GDP - Econbrowser
• Interview: Research Director of the New York Fed - Liberty Street Economics
• Is Globalization Good? - American Economic Association
• Sustaining a philosophy research community - Understanding Society
• The Economic Cost of Weakening Capital Requirements for Large Banks - PIIE
• The impact bias against Labour - Stumbling and Mumbling
• SSI Doesn't Explain Decline in Labor-Force Participation, Either - CBPP
• Ducking questions about capitalism - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Wealth Patterns in the United States - Tim Taylor
• An Inflation Expectations Experiment - Carola Binder
• The Independent Bank of England--20 Years On - Stanley Fischer
• The Understanding and Misunderstanding Imperfect Information - Uneasy Money
• How the ECB should respond to a German fiscal boost - CER
• Handwaving on health care - Noahpinion

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Stabilizing and Strengthening ACA Nongroup Markets [feedly]

Stabilizing and Strengthening ACA Nongroup Markets
https://www.urban.org/research/publication/stabilizing-and-strengthening-aca-nongroup-markets

Uncertainty about federal support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues to threaten enrollment and stability in the nongroup insurance markets. Meanwhile, congressional Republicans are likely to continue their efforts to repeal and replace the law. But targeted policies could fix the ACA's problems without sacrificing its gains in coverage, affordability, and access to care. These policies would stabilize the nongroup insurance markets, encourage insurer participation, improve affordability, and rein in premium growth. We divide these policies into two categories: those that should be implemented immediately to stabilize the markets and those that would strengthen the ACA for the long term.

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Is the US Media Ignoring Puerto Rico? [feedly]

Is the US Media Ignoring Puerto Rico?
http://ritholtz.com/2017/09/media-ignoring-puertorico/

fivethirtyeight: "Hurricane Maria has been relatively ignored. Data from Media Cloud, a database that collects news published on the internet every day, shows that the devastation in Puerto Rico is getting comparatively little attention."     Source: 538  

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