Struggling but Stuck in Rural America
The Wall Street Journal describes why it’s so hard to escape struggling rural towns. Too bad its readers will hear none of it.
Read more...Category Archives: Income disparity
Why Tax Cuts for the Rich Solve Nothing
An update on Republican tax cut plans, and why they are economic chicanery.
Read more...Matt Bruenig: The “Success Sequence” Is About Cultural Beefs Not Poverty
Debunking a pet conservative meme about the need to have a family to get out of poverty.
Read more...Study: Only Wealthiest and Best Educated Benefit from Mediterranean Diet
A large-scale, well designed study on the Mediterranean diet showed unexpectedly that social status matters, big time.
Read more...Renegotiating NAFTA: The Role of Global Supply Chains
Unfortunately, redoing NAFTA in a way that benefits US workers is not a trivial task.
Read more...The US Antitrust Counter-Revolution
In case you doubted it, diminished antitrust enforcement, a rise in monopolies, and increased inequality are related developments.
Read more...How “Use of Machinery” Promotes Inequality and Social Upheaval
A prescient take from the 1840s on “machinery” versus labor and communities.
Read more...Lack of Hope in America: The High Costs of Being Poor in a Rich Land
Tying the loss of economic mobility to the loss of hope and personal despair.
Read more...The Mega Rich Are Getting Mega Richer: A Former CEO Exposes the Corruption Behind Their Obscene Paychecks
Discusses broader economic effects of gross income inequality– driven by obscene CEO pay rises.
Read more...A 21st-Century Form of Indentured Servitude Has Already Penetrated Deep into the American Heartland
Corporations want to make sure that laborers never again have the power to tell big business how to treat them.
Read more...Monetary Sovereigns, Monetary Subjects: Modern Money & The Criminal Legal System
On the connection between money, and in particular monetary sovereignity, and the criminal justice system.
Read more...The Retirement Wealth Inequality Machine
A fine, high level description of the retirement problem in the US, coupled with a not-as-stellar remedy.
Read more...Lee Camp: Enjoy the Trump Show While Wall Street Pillages the Country
Trump’s Wall Street allies are pleased that the press isn’t paying much attention to market froth and rising debt as he pushes deregulation.
Read more...Ben Bernanke, in Denial? “When Growth is Not Enough”
Bernanke is selling the idea that things aren’t that bad….which is true if you are in the top 20%, which he also kinda acknowledges…
Read more...Poverty, Crime and Causality
A Swedish study has some novel findings on the relationship between crime and poverty.
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