COVID-19 Compounding Inequalities
The COVID-19 crisis may worsen inequality and push more than 70 million people into extreme poverty, according to the United Nations.
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Is Development for the World Bank Mainly Doing Business?
The World Bank finally gives up defending its controversial but influential Doing Business Report. It’s about time.
Read more...Why 2020 Was the ‘Precarity Election’
In 2020, both parties ignored rising precarity, which is why the country remains a house divided against itself.
Read more...How Biden Can Protect Workers on Day 1
By using the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Biden could improve worker safety during the pandemic without Congress’s help.
Read more...The Liberals’ New Passion for Snobbery and Censorship: An Interview + Review of The War on Populism and Trumpocalypse by C.J. Hopkins
Playwright and critic C.J. Hopkins was early to document the liberal embrace of intensified propaganda in the US.
Read more...Matt Taibbi: A Dangerous Moment for the Democratic Party
Matt Taibbi describes why the Democrats are likely to draw all the wrong lessons from their shabby 2020 results.
Read more...Unions Raise Worker Wellbeing
Quelle surprise! Unions look better than they used to, due to the worsening of non-union work.
Read more...James M. Buchanan, Segregation, and Virginia’s Massive Resistance
Later “Nobel” prize winner James Buchanan took his first policy stance by supporting segregation in Virginia via proto charter schools.
Read more...Victims of Nuclear Bomb Tests on U.S. Soil 75 Years Ago Continue to Seek Justice
The US conducted nuclear tests that damaged the health of generations of New Mexico residents—who remain uncompensated.
Read more...Jobs Picture Emerges of Weird Recovery to Historically Awful Level
Jobs not galore. And the target keeps moving.
Read more...Americans Didn’t Vote for Change. For Many, It Wasn’t on the Ballot
Yves here. There will be many articles trying to explain what happened to the Democrats’ blue wave. This one is close on the heels of the result, which means it reflects beliefs at or shortly after the vote, as opposed to later lines of thought. And the writers made an effort to speak to Trump […]
Read more...How Covid-19 Is Increasing Support for Social Spending
Quelle surprise! Americans want better social safety nets, particularly now with the Covid wolf at the door.
Read more...Six Charts That Reveal America’s Deep Divides
A brief political economy history, in charts: the rich got richer!
Read more...How Lack of Wealth Is a Wage Trap
How wealth inequality influences income inequality, particularly at low wage levels.
Read more...Affluent Authoritarianism: New Evidence on Public Opinion and Policy
New research shows once again that it’s large firms and the 1%—not the “median voter”—who drive U.S. policy.
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