Thomas Frank: Liberal Elites Will Create Conditions for Another Trump
Thomas Frank: If Biden and the corporate Democrats continue to deny the concerns of populist movements, they ensure a new Trump will emerge
Read more...Category Archives: Income disparity
The Consequences of Inequality Can Be Fatal
A compliation of some of the costs of inequality, updated for the Covid-19 era.
Read more...AOC Shellacking of Rep. Ted Yoho Shows How Little Progress Women Have Made
Why AOC’s impressive speech about Ted Yoho’s bad conduct reveals much about the standing of women in America, and not in a good way.
Read more...Thomas Frank: Corporate Democrats Idolize FDR, but Hate His Policies and the Populists That Supported Him
Thomas Frank discuss how Democrats try to have it both ways, wrapping themselves in FDR’s good name while dissing pretty much everything he stood for.
Read more...More on Deaths of Despair: New Study Links Early Job Loss to Higher Rates of Overdose Deaths and Suicides
Another look at deaths of despair confirms the danger of job loss and even too-early retirement.
Read more...Thomas Frank: Populism is Not Mob Rule
Liberal elites see mass movements as endangering their ‘educated and wise leadership’. Populism and anti-populism has deep roots in American history.
Read more...Essential – and Expendable – Labor, in Mexico, for the US
How workers in Mexico are now essential—to U.S. corporations.
Read more...Unequal Consequences of COVID-19 Across Age and Income
A six-country look at who is affected by Covid-19 and what there responses tend to be.
Read more...Why Does Essential Work Pay So Little… And Cost So Much?
Ruminations on the nature of work and employment.
Read more...Are American Colleges and Universities the Next Covid Casualties?
Colleges and universities need to be saved, not only from financial ruin, but also, all too often, from themselves.
Read more...How Mitch McConnell’s Hostility to the Unemployment Supplement Puts Ordinary Americans’ Welfare at Risk
Republicans intend to shoot themselves and the economy in the head out of ideological rigidity by killing the unemployment supplement.
Read more...COVID-19 and the Garment Industry’s Invisible Hands
How the cornacrisis has led to investigations of garment industry supply chains to unearth worker exploitation and shady contractors.
Read more...Immaculate Deception, Fed Style
The Fed knows it it is up to no good as far as ordinary citizens are concerned, witness its propaganda efforts.
Read more...There Can Be No Equality Without a Dramatic Renewal of Employment Opportunity for All American Workers
Workers, and above all black workers, lost out when unions came under attack and corporate profiteering and short-termism became the norm.
Read more...“Cancel Culture,” Race and the Greed of the Billionaire Class
Why cancel culture gets the elites off the inequality hook.
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