Why Americans’ Hatred of Taxes Is Fake News
Newspapers consistently underplay wide public support for higher taxes on businesses and the wealthy.
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Oklahoma’s Revolution Didn’t End with Teacher Strikes—It’s Going Much Further
Oklahomans are sick and tired of politics as usual—the good ’ol boy system, they say, must end.
Read more...Three More Reasons for Wealth-Deprived Americans to Take to the Streets
Some telling facts on wealth inequality.
Read more...The Corporate Plan to Groom U.S. Kids for Servitude by Wiping Out Public Schools
Schools are becoming a two-tier affair, with those for the non-affluent preparing them for “a life that is more circumscribed, less vibrant, and, quite literally, shorter, than what past generations have known.”
Read more...Monopoly Capitalism: At The Breaking Point?
Michael Hudson discusses monopoly capitalism on the Laura Flanders show.
Read more...The Hidden Network That Propelled Civil Rights in America
Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders relied on black entrepreneurs to make their work possible.
Read more...5 Ways Liberals and Progressives Shame the Poor Without Even Realizing It
The poor (and even the struggling middle class) are too often on the receiving end of sanctimonious and not cheap lifestyle finger-wagging.
Read more...The Forgotten Economic Vision of Martin Luther King
In the last years of his life, King was boldly forging a radical, multi-racial movement for economic justice.
Read more...Economists’ Dubious Relationship with Trade Policy: Comparative Advantage is a System that Works for the Wealthy
The great unwashed public has good reason to doubt what economists say about trade.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Stephen Hawking on What Killed the World of the Jetsons. Prelude to Thoughts on a Guaranteed Jobs Program
Hawking showed a not-surprisingly acute grasp on the implications of technological unemployment.
Read more...Stabilising the Real Economy Increases Average Output
This column summarizes research indicating that stabilizing the real economy raises the long-run level of output.
Read more...Millennials Are Waiting For The End Of Capitalism
Not surprisingly, Millennials are not in very good financial shape…..
Read more...Job Guarantee Winning More Fans on the Left and Right
The Job Guarantee is (finally) a topic that can be discussed in polite company.
Read more...The Euro Area’s Deepening Political Divide
The Euro is creating new fault lines. Eurozone leaders need to give greater priority to national interests, particularly of economic “losers”.
Read more...Resisting the Gig Economy: The Emergence of Cooperative Food Delivery Platforms
Labor-squeezing platform providers: how to fight fire with fire.
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