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Is This Really a Change From the Past?

At least half of all U.S. workers now do the bare minimum of what's required from them at their jobs, according to a new survey from Gallup.

Industry watchers and workforce experts have adopted the term "quiet quitting" to describe such workers: people who have chosen to reject the hustle culture that has dominated conversations around work and career for decades.

And in a pandemic era that has physically and emotionally stretched many employees thin, some have begun to speak up about some of the indignities of the modern workplace.

While quiet quitting is sometimes defined as simply enforcing boundaries between work life and personal life, the Gallup survey paints a different picture. The survey attributes the decline in engagement at work to a lack of clarity about expectations, fewer opportunities to learn and grow, not feeling cared about and a disconnect with the organization’s mission or purpose, said Jim Harter, Gallup's chief scientist for workplace management.

And Half the Workers Are Busting Their Butts.

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Barnes has been ahead of Johnson in every poll done in the past 365 days.

An Urban Myth

In the U.S., the terms inner city and urban have long been code words for Black areas. They are used to evoke the stereotype of a Black underclass, confined to public-housing units or low-income housing, entrenching the belief that this population is somehow inherently meant for city life while also denigrating city life as dirty, crowded, and utterly undesirable. During the 2016 presidential debates, for instance, then-candidate Donald Trump repeatedly referred to African Americans living in “the inner cities.” When asked about the nation’s racial divide or being a president to “all the people in the United States,” he repeatedly evoked the stereotype that Black people largely live in inner cities wracked by crime.

To make this stereotype work in the 21st century requires overlooking one key fact: Black families have been absconding from cities for decades. In a recent paper, the economists Alex Bartik and Evan Mast note that over the past 50 years, the share of the Black population living in the 40 most populous central cities in the U.S. fell from 40 percent to 24 percent. They are not the first to highlight this phenomenon. Demographers and sociologists in particular have been noting this trend for decades. As the Brookings Institution demographer William Frey has documented, from 2000 to 2010, the Black population of the central cities in America’s 100 largest metro areas decreased by 300,000. Detroit, Chicago, and New York (prime destinations during the Great Migration) as well as Atlanta, Dallas, and Los Angeles all saw declines in their Black populations.

Michigan is On the Forefront of the Abortion Battle

The 1931 Michigan law banning abortion is unconstitutional, Court of Claims Judge Elizabeth Gleicher ruled Wednesday. (A woman got to have a say.) That makes a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the 1931 law permanent, though Gleicher’s decision could be appealed to higher state courts, and the fate of an amendment protecting abortion rights is currently in the hands of the state Supreme Court.

Banning abortion, Gleicher ruled, would not only violate the due process right to “bodily integrity,” but, Washtenaw County Prosecuting Attorney Eli Savit explained in an important Twitter thread, would violate the Michigan constitution’s equal protection clause as well.

On the first point, Gleicher wrote, “Manifestly, criminalizing abortion will eliminate access to a mainstay healthcare service. For 50 years, Michiganders have freely exercised the right to safely control their health and their reproductive destinies by deciding when and whether to carry a pregnancy to term. Eliminating abortion access will force pregnant women to forgo control of the integrity of their own bodies, regardless of the effect on their health and lives.”

As for equal protection, “The statute not only compels motherhood and its attendant responsibilities, it wipes away the mother’s ability to make the plans she considers most beneficial for the future of her existing or desired children. Despite that men play necessary role in the procreative process, the law deprives only women of their ability to thrive as contributing participating in world outside the home and as parents of wanted children.”

She continued, “Our Constitution does not permit the Legislature to impose unjustifiable burdens on different classes of pregnant women. It also forbids treating pregnant women as unequal to men in terms of their ability to make personal decisions about when and whether to be a parent.”

Spacing and Formatting?

Michigan is awaiting another consequential state court decision on abortion rights: After a coalition of groups submitted a record-breaking number of signatures to get an amendment protecting reproductive rights on the November ballot, the Michigan Board of State Canvassers deadlocked on whether to allow the measure after opponents of abortion challenged the amendment over errors in spacing and formatting. That blocked its certification, which is now in the hands of the state Supreme Court.

“Technicalities should not undermine the voice of the voters and the will of the people from coming to fruition,” Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson told The 19th. “And yet when we see a hyper politicization of these canvassing boards at the state or local level, that’s essentially the danger: that they choose partisanship over the law and doing what’s right. My hope is that the law will prevail here.”

That decision is expected any day now, along with a decision on a ballot measure expanding voting rights. Democrats have a narrow majority on the Michigan Supreme Court, with control of the court itself being on the ballot in November.