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Inside the World of
Check-Cashing Outlets
By Deborah M. Figart and Thomas Barr | February 16
Not all financial services for the poor are equally bad—regulation makes a difference. | Read more »
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Where Are Today’s Mass Movements?
By Trudy Goldberg | February 5
What we can learn from the millions who demonstrated for jobs, government relief, and collective bargaining rights in the 1930s. | Read more »
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A Second Greek Demonstration Project
By Mike-Frank Epitropoulos | January 24
Why the architects of austerity fear a SYRIZA victory. | Read more »
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Another Gift for Corporations—
Lower Tax Rates
By John Miller | January 22
The Wall Street Journal’s Holiday Season Yankee Swap | Read more »
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Top Eleven D&S Graphs of 2014
By Dollars & Sense | December 30
From tax rates to health care to inequality, the best graphs (and scariest data) of 2014. With a nod to Nigel Tufnel, we couldn’t pick just ten!
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Inequality, Power, and Ideology:
An Update
By Arthur MacEwan | December 22
Market fundamentalism has weakened, but income inequality and the concentration of power seem to be firmly in place.
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Are We Better Off Than
We Were 40 Years Ago?
By Zoe Sherman | December 12
Weighing increased per capita income against rising inequality, insecurity, burdens of work, and environmental degradation.
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Why We All Need Affirmative Action
By Jeannette Wicks-Lim | December 5
Recent shootings of young black men sound the alarm
for public policies that directly counter racist stereotypes.
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U.S. Polluters Über Alles
By John Miller | November 25
The Wall Street Journal editors brush off climate activism. | 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 »
