Guess What? You Can Pay $600 a Month to be Homeless in San Francisco
Being homeless in San Francisco is not necessarily a bargain.
Read more...Category Archives: Income disparity
Why Paul Krugman Blew It on His ‘Solution’ for Gentrification
One of the fallacies of proposals to limit gentrification is the idea that promoting more development in cities leads to more affordable housing. Stratified markets mean this is not a simply “supply and demand” problem.
Read more...America to Working Class Whites: Drop Dead!
On the fallen status of lower-class whites, and the poor prospects for many of their betters.
Read more...Tom Ferguson: Who is Supporting Trump?
Our favorite curmudgeon, political scientist Tom Ferguson, appeared on Real News Network to tease some signal out of the considerable noise on Donald Trump.
Read more...From G20 to Labour20
Labour20 set forth important goals not just for labor but for the economy and broader society. But does organized labor have the credibility to promote these aims?
Read more...The REALLY ANNOYING Don’t-Wanna-Subsidize-Wealthy-Kids’-College-Tuition Canard
Yves here. Readers know I have a weakness for righteous rants…
Read more...Marshall Auerback and Branko Milanovic Discuss Income Inequality: The Global Haves And Have-Nots In The 21st Century
A conversation between Marshall Auerback and Branko Milanovic on income inequality and the potential countervailing forces to its rise.
Read more...To Fix Inequality and Steady the Economy, Think Radically
Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website Adair Turner, Chairman of the Board of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and former Chairman of Britain’s Financial Services Authority (2008-13), is the author of a new book that takes aim at economic and political orthodoxies, Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and […]
Read more...10 Economic Facts that Power the Sanders Insurgency
Why are so many drawn to the Sanders message? It’s because so many of us want to stop our entire society from crumbling beneath the destructive power of runaway inequality.
Read more...Martin Wolf on the Low Labor Participation as the Result of the Crapification of Jobs
Why are more and more prime age people refusing to take jobs on offer?
Read more...Mussolini-Style Corporatism, aka Fascism, on the Rise in the US
While the new neoliberal economic order is not a replay of fascism,, there is a remarkable amount of inhibition in calling out the similarities where they exist.
Read more...“Stunning” Rise in Death Rate, Pain Levels for Middle-Aged, Less Educated Whites
An HIV-level silent epidemic has hit less-educated, middle aged whites, with death rates rising, contrary to patterns in the rest of the world and in other US populations.
Read more...Is the Billionaire-Creating Carried Interest Loophole an Endangered Species?
An internationally recognized tax expert told me a few months ago that the widely-mislabeled “carried interest” loophole was on its deathbed. A new PBS video lends some support to this bold call.
Read more...Why Are Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy Charter Schools Suspending Students Left and Right?
It’s easy to be a “Success Academy” if you have rules that allow you to force out students that you think will be harder to teach.
Read more...The Plutonomy Is Doing Fine
Oddly, the latest release of a report on the state of the plutonomy didn’t get as much attention as it warranted. We are doing our part to make up for this reporting lapse.
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