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Why Is Student Debt Cancelation a Big Deal?
Arthur MacEwan | February 18
Dear Dr. Dollar: I’ve noticed news reports about the possible cancellation of student debt. Why has this become such a big deal recently? | Read more »
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Drugs and Global Capitalism
Sasha Breger Bush | January 17
The sheer size of the drug economy suggests its overwhelming centrality to the global economic system. | Read more »
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The Stock Market and the Coronavirus Crisis
John Miller | January 1
Wall Street demands your money and your life. | Read more »
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State and Local Austerity
Amanda Page-Hoongrajok | December 19
Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past? | Read more »
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“Common Sense” Without Evidence Is Nonsense
JOHN MILLER | November 25
What are the actual effects of enhanced unemployment benefits? | Read more »
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Solidarity Beyond the Crisis
Francisco Pérez and Luis Feliz León | November 10
How to Truly Build Back Better | Read more »
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How to Fight a Coup:
The Role of the Workers’ Movement
Alejandro Reuss | October 28
How union members can organize against an authoritarian threat.
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Has Neoliberalism Underfunded Schools?
Arthur MacEwan | October 23
An apparent contradiction about education funding can teach us a lesson about the possiblity of resistance under neoliberalism. | Read more »
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How Green Is Joe Biden’s Green New Deal?
JOHN MILLER | October 15
Sorting out the good and the bad in the Democratic candidate’s climate-change policies. | Read more »
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How to Stop Trump from Stealing the Election
John W. Lawrence | October 9
An Activist’s Checklist | Read more »
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The Dangers of Private Debt
Julian Jacobs | September 26
High levels of household and corporate debt in the U.S. are making inequality worse and could make the recession deeper. | Read more »
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Coronavirus, Capitalism,
and the Workers’ Movement
Alejandro Reuss | September 7
Part 3: How Inequality Kills, and How to Fight It in the Era of Covid-19 | Read more »
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Pass the Salt!
Chris Nealon | September 6
A reprise of our 2012 review of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber, who died on September 2. | Read more »
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Unemployment Insurance:
A “Safety Net” With Holes
Alejandro Reuss | August 26
The enhanced unemployment benefits—like much of the U.S. social “safety net”—did not cover everyone. | Read more »
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Out of Policy Ideas? Cut Capital Gains Taxes!
JOHN MILLER | August 8
Economists react to the Covid-19 economy with a familiar cure-all. | Read more »
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Corporate Funding of Police Foundations
Gin Armstrong and Derek Seidman | July 21
The lavish overfunding of the police goes beyond public money. | Read more »
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Essential—and Expendable—Mexican Labor
Mateo Crossa and James M. Cypher | July 10
On both sides of the border, Mexican workers are now essential—to U.S. corporations. | Read more »
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Local, or Far Away?
Arthur MacEwan | July 5
Economists tend to assume that the sole goal of our economic activity is to get things as cheaply possible. But outside the narrow world of economics, people care about a lot of other things. | Read more »
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How the Coronavirus Crisis Became an Economic Crisis
Alejandro Reuss | June 25
Part 2 of a joint series in Labor Notes and D&S: “Coronavirus, Capitalism, and the Workers’ Movement”
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Police Violence Is Enabled by
‘Liberal’ Politicians’ Massive Spending
Sonali Kolhatkar | June 18
George Floyd’s death proves again why America needs to defund bloated and militarized police departments. | Read more »
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If the Federal Government Won’t Fund the States’ Emergency Needs,There Is Another Solution
Marshall Auerback | June 18
The refusal of the federal government to contemplate per capita revenue distributions means that more radical measures need to be considered by the state governments. | Read more »
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Growth, Growth, Growth: What Will Happen?
Arthur MacEwan | June 11
The issues of fossil fuel-based growth, economic inequality, and firms’ externalization of pollutants will remain important issues after the COVID-19 crisis starts to fade from our daily lives. | Read more »
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App Workers in the Gig Economy
Nicole Aschoff | June 4
App jobs are a testing ground for companies to see how much they can force workers, consumers, and governments to take on the costs of production. | Read more »
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Top Eleven D&S Graphs of 2018
DOLLARS & SENSE | December 31
From deindustrialization to guard labor to the tepid global recovery, the best graphs (and scariest data) of 2018. With a nod to Nigel Tufnel, we’re cranking it up to eleven! Read more »
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Rosa Luxemburg and the Growth of the Labor Movement
Gerald Friedman | January 15, 2016
On the 97th anniversary of her death, an account of the importance of Luxemburg’s ideas for labor organizing. | Read more »
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Debt and Development
Alejandro Reuss | December 4, 2015
If debt is a “trap” for developing countries, is there any way around it? | Read more »
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Thirty Years of Farm Aid
CAROLYN MUGAR, RHONDA PERRY, ROGER ALLISON, AND DAVID SENTER | July 14, 2015
Reflections on Farm Aid by insiders as the organization supporting family farms celebrates its 30th anniversary. | Read more »
