For First Time In Years, Labor Resistance Is on the Rise in America
Is the rise in labor unrest in 2015 a harbinger or mere noise in the data?
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Gaius Publius: Michelle Alexander, the Black Community & the Hillary Clinton Campaign
Michelle Alexander and some other black political and opinion leaders challenge knee-jerk loyalty to Hillary Clinton. Will these doubts spread?
Read more...Dean Baker Exposes How CBO Cooks Inflation Forecasts to Promote Deficit Scaremongering
Yet more funny forecasts from the CBO telling you why you can’t have nice things, like a better job market.
Read more...Technology and the Future of Work
Discussions of technology-driven change fail to distinguish between productivity-enhancing technology and disruptive technology.
Read more...Bill Black: The AEI and Brookings Sell Marriage as the Solution for Poverty
Marriage is the new cheap fix for poverty…which means by implication that single low income women are a new category of the undeserving poor.
Read more...How Many Flints? America’s Coast-to-Coast Toxic Crisis
Flint is just the tip of the iceberg of lead poisoning in America.
Read more...Jim Hightower: What Really Poisoned the Water in Flint, Michigan
Flint reveals that there is a much deeper contamination poisoning our country’s political morals.
Read more...Paul Craig Roberts on Michael Hudson’s Killing the Host
An introduction to Michael Hudson and his latest book.
Read more...Adolph Reed on Sanders, Coates, and Reparations
Adolph Reed begs to differ with Ta-Nehisi Coates on reparations.
Read more...Trump’s Neofascism Isn’t Going Away, Even if Trump Does
Trump represents a new strain in American politics: low wage full employment and the protection of the status of big business through violent discipline.
Read more...Clinton Campaign Goes on Tilt as a Result of Dead Heat With Sanders in Iowa
The Clinton campaign is on the back foot. And it is a spectacle to behold.
Read more...Gaius Publius: A Non-Neoliberal Woman President Is Not One of the Choices
Hillary as a neoliberal is not your friend….unless you are a member of the 1% or on their meal ticket.
Read more...Low-Income Housing Shows How Tax Credits Funnel Dollars to the Wealthy Under the Guise of Benefits to the Poor
How tax credits to subsidize social programs like low income housing are really welfare for the rich.
Read more...Flint: Let Them Drink Pollution?
Why the crisis in Flint, Michigan is about race and class, and the American nightmare of metastasizing inequality of wealth and power.
Read more...Are Economists in Denial About What’s Driving the Inequality Trainwreck?
Today’s richest Americans may soon blow past the tycoons of the Roaring Twenties.
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