Aram Zucker-Scharff

This Is What Life in a Plutocracy Looks Like: I was stuck today on a 40-mile train ride that took more than four hours. It gave me some time to connect the dots.
‘Watching the fall of the American Empire from an AmTrak window’

Out of Work, Out of Benefits, and Running Out of Options:

Short-term unemployment has fallen to its prerecession level, but long-term unemployment remains more than twice as high as it was in 2007.

Unemployment is on a continual rise in every way but how the White House reports unemployment.

Also:  Unemployment is low, but unemployment claims doubled. Majority media headline: Unemployment drops. 

There’s a Class War Going On and the Poor Are Getting Their Butts Kicked | TIME:

Although they say they’re concerned about inequality, economic policymakers continue to pummel low-income families and the jobless, and that’s bad for all of us

“”All I know is that I still didn’t feel comfortable walking around the show floor,” the second retorts. “I also talked to two new female game designers who attended the show and both told me, ‘I don’t think I want to go into game design anymore.’””

– ‘Making Games Is Easy. Belonging Is Hard’