Professor Emeritus, Emory University School of Medicine and recovering Chief Medical Officer/Hospital Epidemiologist. Husker fan in all kinds of weather.
With everything else going on, Friday's release of the Medicare Trustees' report didn't get much attention. But it said that the hospital trust fund will probably last longer than previously expected — for a very bad reason 1/
“According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, America’s child-care workers make, on average, 59 cents less per hour than its dog walkers. Care work is in crisis. That’s a disaster for the rest of the economy.” https://t.co/N995jo9mOW
Reading Justice Kagan’s excellent dissent in West Virginia v. EPA, it’s clear that she is on to the FedSoc Six, whose fossil fuel industry-friendly “reasoning” is dominating the Court. Follow along for some excerpts from her dissent: