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Medicaid Kayfabe: Fake Wrestling

The features of the bill that are likely to help ordinary people were catchy and easy to understand—reduced taxes on tips and overtime pay and a higher standard deduction for the elderly on income taxes. Yet these projected revenue losses are tiny compared to those incurred by the super rich.

Nancy Folbre

Issue 242: July/August 2002

features

  • The Gospel of Free Trade: The New Evangelists

    Arthur Macewan

    Today's industrialized nations used government regulartion of trade, not "free trade", to build their economies. Why shouldn't Third World countries get to do the same?

  • Silent Depression: Economic Growth and Prosperity Part Company

    John Miller

    Do traditional indicators of economic prosperity mean average Americans are doing well?

  • To Make a Tender Chicken: Poultry Workers Pay the Price

    Barbara Goldoftas

    Once you know about working conditions in a typical poultry processing plant, you may never eat chicken again.

  • Military Spending: Boon or Bane to the Economy? Two Views

    David Gold

    Fewer Jobs, Slower Growth: Military Spending Drains the Economy

    James M. Cypher

    A Prop, Not a Burden: The U.S. Economy Relies on Militarism

  • Book Excerpts

    Thad Williamson

    Who Wants to Be a Cheerleader for a Sweatshop?

    Institute for Policy Studies

    Enron in the Third World

the regulars

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