America’s Dire Inequality Demands a New Conceptual Framework. This Economist Has One.
Lance Taylor explains that wage repression — far more than monopoly power, offshoring or technological change — is driving rising inequality.
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Sediment, Big Spring Run, and River Restoration to Pre-Colonial Times
A geological paradigm shift?
Read more...‘Dereliction of Duty’: Outrage as USPS Board Issues Gushing Praise for DeJoy Amid Mail Slowdowns, Medicine Delays, and Straw-Donor Scandal
The latest sordid episode in the teardown of the US mail service.
Read more...What Rent Drop? Listed Prices Aren’t Budging Where COVID-19 Hit Hardest
New York City disproves popular beliefs about flight from cities and rent declines.
Read more...How US Consumers Use Their Stimulus Payments
Contrary to right wing beliefs, giving citizens stimulus payments didn’t lead them to loaf.
Read more...Regressive Taxation Must Be Reversed
Discussing taxation proposals by inequality mavens Emanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman.
Read more...Democracy Scares, from the Destruction of Bryan to the Abdication of Bernie: Why America Desperately Needs a Second Populist Movement but Ain’t Gonna Get One an interview + Review of The People, No! A Brief History of Anti-Populism by Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank explains why populist campaigners face such a hostile environment now.
Read more...How Warming Will Widen the Italy North-South Economic Gap
In Italy and elsewhere around the globe, climate change will worsen existing inequalities, researchers say.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 9/8/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Read more...Treating Offenders: They Tried To Make Me Go to Rehab and I Said “Yes, Yes, Yes”
A new study on custody treatments of juvenile offenders finds rehabiltation reduces recidivism compared to coercive regimes.
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History Gives Reason to Hope That We Can Beat Inequality
Not surprisingly, fighting inequality has always been an uphill battle, but history gives some insight on tactics.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler Labor Day 2020
Happy Labor Day!
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Hoboken, New Jersey Sues Oil Industry for Climate Impacts From its ‘Deceptive Actions’
New Jersey has now filed lawsuits to pin liability on fossil fuel interests for climate change, with the city of Hoboken being the latest.
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