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What’s Different About Today’s Government Deficit and Debt?

As of today, the U.S. government’s current deficit and debt are indeed currently at unprecedented levels for peacetime—once we account for them appropriately.

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No Tax on Tips

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The Stealthy Strategy to Strangle Medicaid

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Issue 246: March/April 2003

features

Car Trouble

Alejandro Reuss

The automobile as an environmental and health disaster
Whose Jobs? Our Jobs!

Nomi Prins

Workers' response to the telecommunications meltdown.
War on the Earth

Bob Feldman

The U.S. Department of Defense is the world's largest polluter.
A Matter of Life and Debt

Jabulani Leffall

Predatory banks strip wealth from African-American communities.
Not the Owners of the Earth

John Bellamy Foster on the link between capitalism and environmental destruction.

the regulars

the short run
active culture Environmental justice struggles in Gila River and Camden
comment Is the U.S. a pollution haven?
comic strip of neoliberalism Hunger for justice
up against the wall street journal Double taxation double-speak
primer Cost-benefit analysis and the environment
in review Must-read environmental books
ask dr. dollar Does rent control hurt tenants?
economy in numbers Who's to blame for climate change?