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From the Dollars & Sense blog:

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Garlic, Cancer, and the Public Funding of Scientific Research | December 9th
Our November/December Issue Is Out! | November 16th
Eight Lessons from History to Help Make Sense of Today’s Madness | November 3rd

Recent posts»

A Green Job Guarantee

JOHN MILLER | February 16

A federal job guarantee would alter the balance of power in the labor market in favor of workers. | Read more »
Neoliberalism Unchained

BY JAMES M. CYPHER | January 31

Jair Bolsonaro and the Rise of the Extreme Right in Brazil | Read more »
Is “Short Selling” Bad for the Economy?

By Arthur MacEwan | January 13

Dear Dr. Dollar: How do short-sellers manage to make a profit? Does the practice threaten the health of the larger economy or is it relatively harmless? | Read more »
Hope for Housing
in California’s Equitable Economy

JANE PAUL | December 17

Third in a Series: An Equitable Economy Rises in Los Angeles | Read more »
Reindustrialization in the Granite State

MARIE DUGGAN | December 9

Part 3 of the Series “Deindustrialization in the Granite State”: Diamond Turning in the Age of Impatient Finance | Read more »
Trying Again for Full Employment

GERTRUDE SCHAFFNER GOLDBERG | November 16

As prominent progressives talk up a federal job guarantee, what can we learn from earlier attempts to legislate full employment? | Read more »
“Secular Stagnation” Continues

John Miller | October 31

There’s no reason to celebrate Trump’s (not so) “amazing” growth rates. Read more »
“Migration Is a Form of Fighting Back”

DAVID BACON | October 5

Looking at the Root Causes of Migration | Read more »
California’s “Yimbys”

ZELDA BRONSTEIN | September 20

The Growth Machine’s Shock Troops | Read more »
Trump Is Giving Protectionism a Bad Name

WILLIAM G. MOSELEY | September 12

Tariffs and subsidies to support infant industries can be key for economic development in the Global South. | Read more »
Fast Food Wages

Barry Deutsch | September 3

Happy Labor Day!

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Workplace Solidarity in the Equitable Economy

JANE PAUL | August 24

Second in an article series: An Equitable Economy Rises in Los Angeles. Read more »

Special to the Web:

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 »

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 »
Debt and Development

Alejandro Reuss | December 4, 2015

If debt is a “trap” for developing countries, is there any way around it? | Read more »

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 »

Earlier web-only articles, mostly on the financial crisis, dating back to December 2007.

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