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Death and Inequality
Arthur MacEwan | September 7
Health outcomes and death rates are strongly connected to the large economic inequality that exists in the United States. | Read more »
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True Affirmative Action
Polly Cleveland | August 31
Give those without privilege a fighting chance to get a piece of privilege. | Read more »
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The Job Numbers in July 2023:
Is There a Worker-Shortage?
Frank Stricker | August 22
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network. | Read more »
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Mixing Oil and Water
Bill Barclay | August 14
How the political economy of energy and food links Southern
California and Saudi Arabia. | Read more »
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The Potential of Tax Reform in Latin America
C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh | July 30
Some countries aim provide more crucially needed public revenues by shifting more of the tax burden to the rich and large corporations.
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The Job Numbers in June 2023:
What's the Message?
Frank Stricker | July 21
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network. | Read more »
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Putting Children to Work
John Miller | July 15
Weaker state labor laws enable a heartless solution to the labor shortage.
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Confessions of an Affirmative-Action Baby
Greg Palast | July 7
How an “undeserving” kid like me got admitted to Stanford | Read more »
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The Jobs Report for May 2023: A Mixed Bag
Frank Stricker | June 21
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network. | Read more »
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Silicon Valley Fractures
James M. Cypher | June 10
California’s tech-centric militarism, real estate speculation,
and crypto mania are behind the recent bank failures. | Read more »
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Stop Stock Buybacks!
Ericka Wills | May 26
Aviation unions push for restrictions on stock buybacks. | Download pdf here | Read more »
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The Fed’s 2% Inflation Target
John Miller | May 2
Good for the Rich, Not the Rest of Us
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The Inflation Reality and the Attack on Wages
Arthur MacEwan | April 19
You wouldn’t know this from newspaper headlines, statements from “experts,” or the actions of the Fed, but inflation was slow throughout the second half of 2022. | Read more »
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Essential, But Treated as Expendable
Lin Nelson | April 1
Farmworkers are vital to climate justice. | Read more »
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The Whole World Debt Crisis
Sasha Breger Bush | March 26
The debt crisis that has emerged over the past couple of years is happening in countries all around the world, and release valves to vent the pressure are scarce. | Read more »
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What Can We Learn from Agriculture?
Arthur MacEwan | March 3
Farmers have learned to respond to market forces, for better and for worse. | Read more »
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What Happened to the Flower Carriers?
Photo essay by David Bacon | February 4
Today's flower harvesters in Lompoc, Calif. harken back to the flower carriers in Diego Rivera's paintings from the 1930s. | Read more »
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Battling Starbucks
Saurav Sarkar | January 21
How Starbucks Workers United is challenging
the coffee empire—and how the empire is striking back. | Read more »
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Puerto Rico’s Perfect Storm
Arthur MacEwan | December 28
Colonialism, Privatization, and Trump | Read more »
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Globalization in Crisis
John Miller | December 18
Is neoliberalism on the ropes?
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Minority Checked
Robert Ovetz | December 1
Why the Inflation Reduction Act won't benefit workers or save the planet. | Read more »
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Who Can Afford to Have Kids, Anyway?
Débora Nunes | November 22
Class and Reproductive Justice | Read more »
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SWIFT, the U.S. Dollar, and the Global Political Economy of Trade
Bill Barclay | October 23
Decoding the Messaging Network That Enables International
Bank Transfers | Read more »
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Inequality and Homelessness
Arthur MacEwan | October 7
Why do millions of people experience housing problems? And in particular, why are hundreds of thousands of people in the United States homeless? | Read more »
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Two “Bad” Tax Ideas Are Better Than One
John Miller | September 17
Why we need to tax stock buybacks and close the carried interest loophole.
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Taylor’s Digital Stopwatch
Robert Ovetz | August 30
What the U.S. labor movement can learn from European workers who are organizing against “algorithmic management.” | Read more »
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Exchange on Nuclear Power and Climate Change
Leonard Rodberg and Robert Pollin | August 26
Can the climate crisis be solved with nuclear energy? Should recent events at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine give us pause? | Read more »
