Focal Point: This week, I included a couple of articles discussing wage theft and worker misclassifications.

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness blog looks at how prop bets are impacting young men here and abroad—to how obesity and sleep impact your brain’s health—to the Fahrenheit 451-like attacks on public library workers.

As we near the first month of 2026, this week’s edition of our Worker Wellness blog looks at how Philly is shifting strategies in their response to the everchanging opioids crisis—to how an explosion of sports betting venues and formats are negatively impacting people, families, workplaces, and communities—to how the EEOC is withdrawing their previous ‘harassment’ guidance. This week I wish to ask readers to pause and reflect on how history tends repeats itself. Just yesterd