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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 »
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Labor and the Economic Impacts
of the Covid-19 Crisis
Alejandro Reuss | August 10
An update of the author’s June 2020 article, “How the Coronavirus Crisis Became an Economic Crisis.” | Read more »
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Round Up the Usual Scapegoats
John Miller | July 27
Instead of trying to make sense of the multitude of factors that pushed up prices, the conservative economists have fixated on the usual scapegoats: government spending and tighter labor markets. | Read more »
