Friday, October 17, 2014

10/17/14 Today's Inquiries

It's a foggy day in the mountains. And another light link day. I'm not sure what's happening. I'll try to do better.


The Links:

Obama may name an Ebola Czar. Or you know, the republicans could have approved a surgeon general sometime in the last 2 years.

Will this election be a referendum on Ebola? So, basically the republicans will get to play the race card one more time and call for travel bans and closed borders and blame big government for being ineffective.



Thanks to safety net programs, poverty level were half of what they would have been last year without them.

Silicon Valley and wage theft. It ain't pretty. Silicon Valley looks more like Wall St. every day.
Let me repeat that: $3 billion in stolen wages; no admission of guilt, no fine. The only punishment is an agreement to submit to periodic checkups on compliance with antitrust law as regards to illegal wage-fixing cartels.
How much slack is in the labor market?
And the fact that these disparate slack estimates—which were constructed using a variety of underlying data sources—are currently so close to one another is fairly strong evidence that the unemployment rate has nearly reached its long-run level.
I’d be interested in any observations about what happened when you looked for jobs,” Ms. Yellen told current and former participants of the group’s programs. “Is it that you just couldn’t find things that were available, that the job market seemed weak, or is it particularly that your skills or things that you felt you needed to do in order to qualify for jobs that were there?

More coverage of right-wing extremist gamers from the mainstream media. Also, disco.

Could the gaming industry end gamergate terrorism?

Although most Americans still commute by car, shifts toward biking and walking are happening in various metros throughout the US.

Your need for coffee may be genetic.

Research confirms cats are selfish, unfeeling, environmentally harmful hell-beasts.

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