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[The Dollar Store Economic Indicator]

Dollar Stores Signal Trouble For Low-Income Consumers --- Businesses are seeing increasing signs of financial strain among their customers

Jinjoo Lee, @WSJ
(12/14/24)

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#Economy #USEconomy #DollarStore #Economics #Politics #USPolitics

wsj.com/economy/consumers/doll

When Will Democrats Learn to Say No?
#NewYorkTimes | Opinon - Guest Essay
Adam Jentleson

[Mr. Jentleson is a former chief of staff to Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania and a former deputy chief of staff to Senator Harry Reid of Nevada.]
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nytimes.com/2024/11/16/opinion

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When Donald Trump held a rally in the Bronx in May, critics scoffed that there was no way he could win New York State. Yet as a strategic matter, asking the question “What would it take for a Republican to win New York?” leads to the answer, “It would take overperforming with Black, Hispanic and working-class voters.”

Mr. Trump didn’t win New York, of course, but his gains with nonwhite voters helped him sweep all seven battleground states.

Unlike Democrats, Mr. Trump engaged in what I call supermajority thinking: envisioning what it would take to achieve an electoral realignment and working from there.

Supermajority thinking is urgently needed at this moment. We have been conditioned to think of our era of polarization as a stable arrangement of rough parity between the parties that will last indefinitely, but history teaches us that such periods usually give way to electoral realignments. Last week, Mr. Trump showed us what a conservative realignment can look like. Unless Democrats want to be consigned to minority status and be locked out of the Senate for the foreseeable future, they need to counter by building a supermajority of their own.

That starts with picking an ambitious electoral goal — say, the 365 electoral votes Barack Obama won in 2008 — and thinking clearly about what Democrats need to do to achieve it.

Democrats cannot do this as long as they remain crippled by a fetish for putting coalition management over a real desire for power. Whereas Mr. Trump has crafted an image as a different kind of Republican by routinely making claims that break with the party line on issues ranging from protecting Social Security and Medicare to mandating insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization, Democrats remain stuck trying to please all of their interest groups while watching voters of all races desert them over the very stances that these groups impose on the party.

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The New York Times · Opinion | When Will Democrats Learn to Say No?By Adam Jentleson

Movie and Discussion: A Human Picture, 7pm Wednesday 6 November 2024 at the John M. Harper library

What: Movie and Discussion: A Human Picture
When: 7:00pm to 8:30pm, Wednesday 6 November 2024
Where: John M. Harper Branch, Waterloo Public Library
Location: 500 Fischer-Hallman Road North, Waterloo Map
Register: https://calendar.wpl.ca/event/11998737 for both in-person and online by Zoom.

Shared by Basic Income WR:

Join us for a viewing of the short documentary film A Human Picture, about Ontario’s short-lived, but transformational Basic Income Pilot. The session will also include informative presentations and discussions with local experts about this important topic.

The event is being offered in-person and online via Zoom. Please indicate whether your registration is for in-person or online. Those attending online will be sent a Zoom link the day before the event.

Presented in partnership with Basic Income Waterloo Region, a group of community members dedicated to a Basic Income Guarantee as a critical solution to eliminating poverty, responding to the rise of automation in the workforce, and boosting or stimulating the local economy.

Learn more and register at: https://calendar.wpl.ca/event/11998737

#MoneyPoverty #MusicArtDrama #BasicIncome #BasicIncomeWaterlooRegion #BIWR #publicLibrary #UBI #UniversalBasicIncome

https://kwpeace.ca/movie-and-discussion-a-human-picture-7pm-wednesday-6-november-2024-at-the-john-m-harper-library/

Heard a story about Lin-Manuel Miranda releasing a new album based on the 1979 movie "The Warriors". We downloaded it from Hoopla from the Public Library. Spouse had never seen it but followed the story well because the concept of switching out the costuming with band styles really worked. She hated one character's voice because she doesn't care for that kind of music, but he is the bad guy. Will buy.

I ❤️ public radio!
I ❤️ public libraries!

#pn_film #Music
#z_lib #TheWarriors #PublicLibrary

#Seattle #PublicLibrary goes low-tech after #cyberattack

Clare McGrane
June 07, 2024

"Creative solutions

While the attack crippled key systems, the library's 27 branches are still open, hosting events and checking out physical materials.

"For 10 days after the attack, checkouts were done manually with a #PencilAndPaper. Librarians wrote down patrons' library card numbers and cataloged each item borrowed on stacks of forms. One joked that they were back in 1990.

"Now staff have cobbled together a temporary solution that relies on Microsoft Excel, moving forward in time to 1995.

"'I just scan your card into the spreadsheet,' said Spenser Hoyt, demonstrating the check-out process. Hoyt is the borrower services operations manager at the library's central branch.

"'We are able to use our fancy RFID tag technology, so all I have to do is set [the book] on the pad... and it is 'checked out' to you," Hoyt said.

"Hoyt puts air quotes around the phrase "checked out" because the item isn't technically logged in the library's cataloging system. For now, the spreadsheet acts as a record of checkouts that will be uploaded into that system when it's back online.

"One wrinkle in this work-around: There's no way to check materials back into the library's collection. (SPL is asking patrons to hold on any books or other materials until they can process them again. The system doesn't charge late fees.)"

Read more:
kuow.org/stories/seattle-publi

www.kuow.org · Seattle Public Library goes low-tech after cyberattack At the flagship Central branch of the Seattle Public Library, dozens of computers are sitting vacant, their screens blank. Each one bears a laminated sign: "Out of Service."