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‘Not just a building’: Yale’s Living Village welcomes its first student residents
On Monday, Yale Divinity School welcomed the first students who will inhabit the Living Village, a state-of-the-art facility that aims to meet the world’s most exacting standards for environmental sustainability.

#Orwell wrote about the #JustTransition in 1947 ("Toward European Unity"):
«The European peoples, and especially the British, have long owed their high standard of life to direct or indirect exploitation of the coloured peoples. [...] But it is by no means certain that we can afford these th…

"the additional expenditure on the NHS is not about improving our living standards, but about correcting the physical consequences of the appalling food that the neoliberal food supply industry is delivering to us, which is grossly detrimental to our health. We are not, in other words, better off as a consequence of this additional expenditure" -- @…

Neoliberalism is consuming our well-being
As The Guardian has noted: Britain is on track to become a “National Health State” where half of all public spending is allocated to the NHS and social care by the end of the decade, according to a leading thinktank. They added: As the chancellor came under pressure on Thursday to defend her...

The global economy is projected to slow sharply this year
as Trump’s trade policy disrupts international commerce and increases economic uncertainty,
the World Bank said on Tuesday in a report that underscores the toll of America’s trade war.
Despite the weakening outlook, the global economy is not expected to fall into a recession, the World Bank said.
However, the trade tension is setting the stage for the weakest decade of growth since the 1960s.
Economic dev…

World Bank Forecast Underscores Cost of U.S. Trade War
Along with a sharply downgraded projection for global output this year, it urged a “course correction” on trade to help preserve living standards.

Chris Dillow on "Not Debating Immigration"
"Debates don't work, at least not as they should. They don't favour the truth, but plausible liars and for those who can best appeal to prejudice and cognitive bias."
To defeat the far right, people's living standards must improve Keir, Rachel & Liz.