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🚨 ACTION ALERT: The Senate is debating the "SAVE America Act" now.This bill threatens voter access by requiring specific documents like birth certificates to register—disenfranchising millions.

It also risks private voter data and mail-in voting.Demand a NO vote: 👉 https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

Photo Credit: Transformative Justice Coalition

#SaveAmericaAct #ProtectTheVote #VotingRights #Scrutineers #VoterAccess

Mike LaBonte Mar 7

A better way to measure #poverty and a chart showing how #inequality makes people in the U.S. more impoverished than Europeans
https://theconversation.com/measuring-poverty-on-a-spectrum-instead-of-an-arbitrary-line-conveys-a-more-accurate-picture-of-inequality-271912

Measuring poverty on a spectrum instead of an arbitrary line conveys a more accurate picture of inequality

An economist proposes a new method of estimating the scope of poverty in different countries.

The Conversation

Mike LaBonte Mar 6

Per the #BLS population survey: in 12 months population has increased 1,919,000 and #employment decreased 391,000. The good news: at that loss rate it will take 33 years to drop our current 60% employment back to 1960 level, when 34.5% of women were working.

Mike LaBonte Mar 6

Justin Wolfers Mar 6

While employment in health care shrank this month, it continues to account for more than all of the jobs created over the past year.

Mike LaBonte Mar 6

At least they show their methodology
#energy #electricity #profits

https://ilsr.org/energy/utility-bill-calculator/

Mike LaBonte Feb 22

Natasha

🇪🇺Feb 22

I am joining a secret society of electrical engineers and they just asked me to step into a large coil with a battery attached.

This is their current induction process.

Mike LaBonte Feb 17

Databreach.com Feb 16

The Figure Technology Breach: A "Limited" Incident With Over One Million Victims

https://databreach.com/news/47-the-figure-technology-breach-a-limited-incident-with-over-one-million-victims

Mike LaBonte Feb 13

Ars Technica Feb 12

US consumers, business pay 90% of tariff costs, says Federal Reserve
The Fed's research contradict Trump's claim foreign companies would bear the burden.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/us-consumers-business-pay-90-of-tariff-costs-says-federal-reserve/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Mike LaBonte Feb 12

The Conversation U.S.Feb 12

Many Americans say U.S. democracy needs major change. One solution: proportional representation, where more than one representative is elected for each district, and seats are distributed according to votes for a party.

Portland, Oregon, adopted it in 2025, and its new city council is already more diverse by gender, race and neighborhood representation.

https://theconversation.com/proportional-representation-could-reduce-polarization-in-congress-and-help-more-people-feel-like-their-voices-are-being-heard-270411
#USPolitics

‘Proportional representation’ could reduce polarization in Congress and help more people feel like their voices are being heard

The electoral system used by many global democracies eliminates gerrymandering and has been shown to give more equal representation to minorities and women.

The Conversation

Mike LaBonte Feb 9

Sheril Kirshenbaum Feb 8

ChatGPT assumed I am male.

The reason demonstrates we have work to do. #AI #tech