Read the Economists for Palestine statement
from the Steering Committee of the Union for Radical Political Economics.
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How to Ignore Childhood Poverty
Without Having to Say You’re Sorry
John Miller | November 16
The WSJ editors misread the latest Census Bureau report.
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AI and the Future of Work
Robert Ovetz | November 11
Workers’ struggles will determine how the latest round of automation will affect labor.
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Meet the Lobbyists Running Cover
for Harlan Crow and Price-Fixing Landlords
Sam Knight | October 27
The National Multifamily Housing Council took a page from Justice Clarence Thomas’ nondisclosure playbook. | Read more »
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More Bad Good News?
Frank Stricker | October 15
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network. | Read more »
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Will the World Ditch the Dollar?
Sasha Breger Bush, Nimra Bukhari, Jesselina Cordova, Nicholas Ingram, Ketsia Kabela, Jake Kai, and Vicente Tapia | September 30
War, Empire, and the Global Movement Against
U.S. Monetary Hegemony
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Not Enough Jobs, Not Enough Good Jobs
Frank Stricker | September 30
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network. | Read more »
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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 »
