The Who and Why Behind the Push to Gut Child Labor Laws
“The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.” — Lewis Hine, 1908
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The Hidden Costs Of The Renewables Boom
Why renewables are not a free lunch.
Read more...A Debt Crisis Looming in the Global South?
Martin Guzman explains the role of power in sovereign debt crises and restructurings.
Read more...Russia Leaves Neoliberal West to Join World Majority
The sanctions against Russia and Russia’s kinetic war in Ukraine have produced great changes in and outside. But what are their implications?
Read more...Feds Bust $3.4 Billion Crypto Theft, Demonstrating Ability to Penetrate Supposed Secrecy
One of the big selling points of crypto, privacy, is rapidly disappearing.
Read more...Wall Street, Venture Capital Drive High Drug Prices
How the government enables drug company grifting via giving them the store while funding reserch.
Read more...For Uninsured People With Cancer, Securing Care Can Be Like Spinning a Roulette Wheel
Contending with cancer is horrific enough. Fighting to get care is scary, demoraizing, and can be fatal.
Read more...The Impact of Inflation
The IMF takes a wee look at who is hurt by and benefits from inflation.
Read more...The GOP’s Big Bold Plan to Bring Back Child Labor
Back to the era of child labor? Paging Charles Dickens…
Read more...How Union Workers Are Fighting to Save America’s Beleaguered Health Care System
Yves here. This post confirms something Lambert has highlighted in the context of elections: that nurses are one of the most effective union groups. Here they are combatting abusively low hospital staffing levels. Not only will this campaign help slow the decline of the quality of care, it should help slow the exodus of nurses, […]
Read more...Using Tik-Tok as a Trojan Horse, the RESTRICT Act Would Create an Internet Censorship Star Chamber
The RESTRICT Act has run into a buzz saw of well-warranted criticism. But will that be enough to stop it?
Read more...Danny Haiphong and Michael Hudson Discuss The Collapse of Antiquity, the Bank Panic,
Another tour de force by Michael Hudson on how debt dynamics create oligarcies, how the Fed stoked thebank crisis, and the multipolarity push.
Read more...The Non-Profit Industrial Complex Helps Keep the Student Loan Debt Crisis Going
Money made off the backs of students goes back into nonprofits to push college “access” and awareness of financial options.
Read more...Why Market Fundamentalism Is Incompatible with Climate Action
Tackling the climate crisis effectively requires a shift from market fetishism to a more fair and sustainable global economy
Read more...Senators Alarmed By Use of Rent-Setting Algorithm, Say It’s Helping Drive Inflation
How much is “information sharing” between mega property management companies driving the rise in housing costs?
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