America is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most People
Like developing countries, America is becoming more stratified, with the economic and physical distance between rich and poor widening.
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Mexico’s Economy Is Being Plundered Dry
Some vignettes of Mexico as a failed state.
Read more...13 Questions That Expose Charter School Falsehoods
The sales pitch made by charter school boosters does not hold up to scrutiny.
Read more...Californians! Please Write Today to Support Public Access to Government Records
California government bodies regularly thwart public requests for government documents. Write today to support a bill to curb those abuses.
Read more...Bill Black: Dodd-Frank Was Designed to Fail – and Trump Will Make it Worse
More confirmation that Dodd-Frank was never intended to do more than make marginal changes in bank regulation to forestall real reform.
Read more...The Brexit Situation is Developing Not Necessarily to the UK’s Advantage
We’ve been neglecting Brexit due to Trump going uber hawkish and the resulting barrage of news stories to sort through. And another reason is that the noise to signal ratio got even higher in the British media around the time Brexit became official. Formal progress will be virtually nil till late May. The UK and […]
Read more...Theresa May Announces Surprise Early Election for June 8
Theresa May reversed early firm promises and announced snap elections.
Read more...Gaius Publius: New Evidence that Syrian Gas Story Was Fabricated by the White House
The Obama White House blamed Assad for a 2013 sarin attack in advance of evidence. The claim fell apart. The Trump White House is making a rerun.
Read more...Reading the Fine Print in Cuomo’s “Tuition-Free College” Plan
Cuomo’s plan Is means-tested, doesn’t cover fees, covers full-time students only, and has a residency requirement, clawbacks, and “crapshoot” clause
Read more...Our Current Food System Is Broken and Unjust—We Need a Paradigm Shift That Values Nutrition as a Human Right
Plenty of food is produced, but it fails to reach at least an eighth of the world’s population that is suffering from hunger.
Read more...Globalization and the End of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 2
How the the new international economic architecture for trade, investment, & property rights hurt workers in advanced and developing economies
Read more...California and Trump’s Feds Headed to Major Clash on Immigration
Who has the advantage in the Trump versus California immigration cage match?
Read more...Why You Can’t Have a Shorter Workweek
A recap of the numerous, internally inconsistent arguments as to why workers can’t have a shorter workweek.
Read more...Big US Banks Make Laughable Excuses for Preserving Failed Universal Bank Model
Count on the banks to keep trotting out tired excuses for their too-big-to-faill ways.
Read more...Corruption at CalPERS: General Counsel Matt Jacobs as Exemplar of Culture of Casual Lying
A spotlight on General Counsel Matt Jacobs as a prime example of what is wrong at CalPERS.
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