For over a century, technology created many new jobs, which typically were more productive and were better paid than the old jobs that were eliminated.

But this hasn't been true since 1990 or so.

Nowadays, the new jobs are mostly low-skill jobs, and low-paid.

But nowadays, with insufficient jobs, workers don't get raises even when their productivity increases. That's because employers can get away with not giving raises. They keep the benefit of the workers' increase productivity for themselves.

The uncertainty of today's temporary, subcontracted and irregular employment imposes stress on many American workers.

This stress is especially bad for those who are paid little and thus always at the edge. My income is irregular, but I don't worry much if some months go by and no speech gives me a fee. Millions of Americans could go hungry if they get too few hours.

The article recommends a solution of imposing welfare systems on whichever employer pays more than half of a worker's income, but there may not be any such employer, and and if there is, it might be different from week to week. Instead of placing the load for a worker's welfare support on that one employer, I suggest we disconnect welfare systems from employment, and make companies pay for them through taxes that are unrelated to how many workers they employ.

That would, as a side benefit, remove one incentive to replace human workers with automation.

Everyone: call on major US science museums to divest from fossil fuels.

US citizens: call on Congress to protect the Endangered Species Act.

A megaproject is being considered to allow the Mississippi to once again feed sediment into the wetlands south of New Orleans.

This might work if the city only had to cope with the local problems that the article mentions. It might perhaps suffice for 50 years. It can't possibly cope with the 6 meters of sea level rise predicted for the 21st century if we don't cut global heating short.

US firefighters say global heating has made for fires like nothing they have seen before.

In 20 years, the fires will be like nothing seen today.