

Hank Layfield @hlayfield.bsky.social
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@hlayfield
Father, husband, urban cyclist, fitness enthusiast, ANTIFAscist, Star Trek nerd. Baseball is my religion.



College grads have been “prolentarianized": Universities minted too many knowledge workers, and now they're working at Starbucks in unprecedented numbers. This is a popular narrative. But it isn't quite right. In truth, recent college grads today are *more* likely to hold a job that requires a degree -- and *less* likely to have a low-wage service job -- than they were in the mid-1990s vox.com/politics/48505…












Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services said during the campaign that he would stop research on drug development and infectious diseases for 8 years. What could possibly go wrong?



If the goal is to Make America Healthy Again, indoor air quality is one of the best places to start: ifp.org/indoor-air-qua…




Musk's "efficiency" project is a bigger question. Is Congress going to allow one of the largest govt contractors to head a new department? Will it sit outside or above public agencies? As we learned in Russia, privatization is often little more than creating unaccountable power.





