On this International Workers’ Day, frontline workers are bearing the brunt on Covid-19 and public sector workers may not be far behind. Time for Shelley’s “To the Working Men of England.”
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During Covid, Workers Must Unite
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Lettuce, E. Coli, and Deregulation
Trump’s FDA put a hold on FDA regulations designed to prevent E. coli and the result has been another outbreak. Calling Upton Sinclair.
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Trump, “FDA Food Police,” & The Jungle
Donald Trump yesterday floated a proposal to roll back food regulations. It’s worth remembering that such regulations were first put into place in large part because of a novel, Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” (1906).
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Protecting Players in the NFL “Jungle”
Upton Sinclair uses a football analogy as he makes a case for workers needing workplace protections.
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Sinclair’s “Jungle” & ACA Challenges
Upton Sinclair’s “Jungle” anticipates some of need for Obamacare, along with some of the challenges it is facing.
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Packers Screwed in Update of “The Jungle”
The locked-out NFL refs bring to mind the exploited workers in Upton Sinclair’s “Jungle.”
A Poem for Every Playoff Team
Sports Saturday For the football games this weekend, I found a passage from a poem or passage from a poem that pertains to the name of each team. Enjoy. Atlanta Falcons vs. Green Bay Packers The high-flying Atlanta Falcons boast, among other things, the incomparable receiver Roddy White, who soars skyward to pull down passes. […]
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The NFL as Chicago Slaughterhouse
Sports Saturday Football season has begun, with a full slate of games scheduled for tomorrow. The good news is that the seven-month drought known as offseason ends for fans of America’s most popular game. The bad news is that, once again, young men will go back to permanently damaging themselves as they fling their […]
Life before Health Benefits: A Jungle
The Chicago Stockyards In honor of Martin Luther King’s birthday, I am going to write about a cause that would have been very close to King’s heart and that America’s first black president has embraced: universal health care. Like many I believe that, if we don’t pass universal health care this year, we probably will […]
