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Polly Cleveland Jun 7, 2026

The Green New Deal is a Jobs Engine, Despite Trump

In the United States and globally, the Green New Deal will continue to achieve critical gains, regardless of whatever the current administration says or does.

Robert Pollin Jun 2, 2026

Left Hook Economics

California Greening: Fighting Climate Change in the Golden State

Governor Jerry Brown launched the most aggressive and successful combination of programs to combat climate change we have yet seen in the United States—understanding these programs can help other states do the same.

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Issue 221: January/February 1999

features

It's a Bank-Eat-Bank World

Jim Campen
Beyond Patching the Safety Net: A Welfare and Work Survival Strategy

Chris Tilly
What Welfare Reform Has Wrought

Randy Albelda
Health Workers Confront Managed Care

Marc Breslow
Cohousing: Collective Living for the 90s

Eleanor Bader
Gold, Greed, and Cyanide

Pratap Chatterjee
The Philippines: Another IMF Causalty

Anna Manzo and Scott Harris

the regulars

lettersCoops and More Coops
the short runIs the PTA Selling Out? Does God Favor Employers?
active cultureOrganizing as a Human Right / Pie Day
commentCookies are Not So Sweet
making senseThe True Scandal of American Politics / George Soros: Beware Fundamentalism / Nobel Prize Winner Tweaks Free Marketeers / Social Insecurity
in reviewRent Control, Impacts of the Termination of Rent Control, and Toy Wars
ask dr. dollarHousehold Wealth in the United States
economy in numbersDoes Inequality Cause Overwork?