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Assessing Those CBO Numbers
on the Minimum Wage
By Dean Baker | February 21
The CBO’s job-loss projections look like a setback for proponents of raising the minimum wage. A more serious assessment shows otherwise. Read more »
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Going Postal
By Steve Pressman | February 11
A new book argues that public banks can solve the problems of the industry by investing in infrastructure and lending when private banks will not. Read more »
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Sustainability Squared
By Polly Cleveland | January 30
From farms to cities to businesses, we already have the technology to sustain both the environment and the people. Read more »
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The ACA and the U.S. Health-Care Mess
By Gerald Friedman | January 20
Obamacare will extend coverage to many, but does little to rein in out-of-control cost growth and leaves millions without coverage. Read more »
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The $17 Trillion Delusion
By Marty Wolfson | January 6
Those who say we have to cut Social Security benefits want to abandon society’s commitment to retirees. Read more »
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The Airfare Mystery
By Arthur MacEwan | December 17
Dear Dr. Dollar: London isn’t much farther from Boston than San Diego is. So why does a flight from Boston to London cost more than twice as much as a flight from Boston to San Diego? Read more »
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Financing the New Economy
By Abby Scher | December 6
By enriching the alternative financial sector, we can nurture the power of workers over capital, an age-old struggle that the financial crisis makes only more urgent. Read more »
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The Pension-Busters’ Playbook
By Katherine Sciacchitano | December 4
The Manipulations behind the attack on pensions in Detroit’s bankruptcy. Read more »
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Vice Versa: Inequality and Our Economic Problems
By John Miller | November 27
Rising inequality is not just bad for us, but is the root cause of today’s economic problems. Read more »
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Crooks, Liars, Idiots, and Plutocrats
By Matías Vernengo | November 20
Tea Party “idiots” in Congress are the public face of the debt-ceiling crisis, but plutocrats are the real backers and austerity is the real aim. | Read more »
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Picket, Fight, and Win
By Seth Grande | November 8
Solidarity networks—volunteer mutual support groups that organize around specific cases—defend tenants and workers with direct action. | Read more »
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How a Progressive Tax System Made Detroit a Powerhouse (and Could Again)
By Mason Gaffney and Polly Cleveland | August 9, 2013
During the city’s heyday from the 1890s through the 1940s, mayors and other civic leaders embraced the principles espoused by American economist Henry George, raising revenue through property taxes, rather than income or sales taxes. Read more »
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Banking on the Public
By Abby Scher | June 25, 2013
Going Postal, North Dakota, and other finance alternatives: A report-back from Public Banking 2013: Funding the New Economy. Read more »
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Taxing Cash Hoarders
By Alejandro Reuss | June 28, 2013
Nonfinancial corporations are stockpiling enormous sums of cash. A tax on this idle cash that would light a fire under corporations to invest it now. Read more »
Jobs, Deficits, and the Misguided Squabble over the Debt Ceiling.
By Tim Koechlin | August 5, 2011
Why the absurd squabble over the debt ceiling was distracting, destructive, and almost entirely beside the point. Read more »
Local Activism against Wal-Mart
Corporate Power, Wal-Mart and the Undermining of the Democratic Process
By Joel Harrison | April 13, 2011
Is the Wal-Mart Way the American Way?
By Martin J. Bennett | April 13, 2011
Why Is the Government Buying Long-Term Bonds?
By Alejandro Reuss | January 19, 2011
Questions and Answers on the Fed’s “QE2” program. Read more »
The Greatest Recovery, Part II
By Mark Provost | January 19, 2011
The Greatest Recovery in corporate profits and the Great Recession are two sides of the same coin. Read more »
The Greatest Recovery, Part I
By Mark Provost | December 16, 2010
The Greatest Recovery in corporate profits and the Great Recession are two sides of the same coin. Read more »
The Deficit Commission and Redistribution
By Darwin BondGraham | November 23, 2010
President Obama’s Deficit Commission has proposed a plan to rewrite the social contract, and to make the poor and middle class pay. Read more »
Laffer’s Latest Curve Ball
By John Miller | October 18, 2010
Arthur Laffer is peddling more of the same bad tax policy as he inveighs against Washington State Initiative 1098, which would tax state residents with incomes over $200,000. Read more »
The Jobs Crisis and the Art of Flexible Labor
By Dan DiMaggio | October 18, 2010
The bizarre experience that over 500 other workers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area had recently sheds some light on the growing expectations of absolute “flexibility” if you want a job. Read more »
Arctic Power...with Added Cleansers
By Maurice Dufour | February 17, 2010
All the negative press over Canada’s dirty oil is taking its toll on our national psyche. For years, our self-image as responsible environmental stewards had made us smug; now Canada’s just another carbon thug. Read more »
Haiti’s Fault Lines: Made in the U.S.A.
By Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly | February 4, 2010
Pace Pat Robertson, the devil had little to do with Haiti’s underdevelopment. Instead, the fingerprints of more mundane actors—France and later the United States—are all over the crime scene. Read more »
