Category Archives: Income disparity

Biden Stimulus Plan Shores Up Weakest Multi-Employer Pension Plans Rather than Taking on Private Equity Abuses

A Biden rescue of the sickest private pension plans goes largely under the radar.

Nomi Prins: To Build or Not to Build? The Infrastructure Question

For all sorts of bad reasons, American has a huge infrastructure spending backlog. But can we even do the job well?

Sports Desk: DoJ Files Amicus Brief in Support of College Athletes, While Congress Mulls Giving Them Rights to Their Names, Images, and Likenesses

Both the DoJ and Congress apparently side with college athletes over the NCAA in on antitrust and property issues.

Why the U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance Is Essential for U.S. Survival

Maintaining and reviving manufacturing capacity in key insutries is vital to preserving jobs and ensuring U.S. survival.

‘We Must Deliver on This Issue’: Jayapal Vows to Fight for $15 Minimum Wage

The Congressional Progressive Caucus chair said that despite the Senate failing to include the wage boost in the relief bill, the fight for $15 must go on.

Waste Watch: Europeans Get Right to Repair for Some Consumer Electrical Goods, While John Deere Reneges on Promise to U.S. Farmers to Make Diagnostic Software Freely Available

On March 1, the EU implemented a right to repair for some consumer electrical goods; which U.S. state will wake up and do the same?

The Jobs Recovery, Compared to the “Good Times” Trend

February confirms: V-shaped jobs recovery petered out in October about two-thirds into it.

Economists’ Rx: “Sick? Stay Home!”

Economists endorse sick day mandates. Pass the word.

Covid Baby Bust Has Governments Rattled

A falloff in baby production has capitalists very worried.

GOP Voting Rights Act Position Falls Apart in SCOTUS Arguments

The GOP scored an own goal in its Supreme Court arguments on a closely-watched Arizona voting rights case.

Bad Stimulus: Government Payments to Individuals Are a Terrible Way to Solve America’s Structural Economic Problems

Why the Biden stimulus program is fundamentally wrongheaded.

The Bullshit Economy: Homebuying “Help”

Introducing “The Bullshit Economy” from Jared Hoist, on products and companies that exist solely to exploit policy failures, in a bad way.

A Big Fiscal Push is Urgent, The Risk of Overheating Is Small

The $1.9 trillion fiscal stimulus should be large because the need is large.