Why Stopping Tax “Reform” Won’t Stop Inequality
Inequality isn’t driven by taxes—it’s driven by the power of capital in relation to workers.
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The Super Wealthy Oxycontin Family Supports School Privatization With Tactics Similar to Those That Fueled the Opioid Epidemic
How the marketing model the Sackler family developed to promote OxyContin is being applied to one of their pet causes, charter schools.
Read more...The Super Wealthy Oxycontin Family Supports School Privatization With Tactics Similar to Those That Fueled the Opioid Epidemic
A fortune derived from the relentless marketing of painkillers is now being used to expand charter schools.
Read more...Matt Bruenig: Land as Soil and Land as Space
Looking at arguments used to justify original claims on land (meaning private ownership versus common ownership or use).
Read more...LA School Board Ready to Rumble Over Charter Schools
The LA school board is finally cracking down on charter schools’ intransigence.
Read more...Third Way Democrats Double Down on Anti-90% Agenda With More Attacks on Public Schools
The Democrats are sticking firmly to their anti-middle class ways, as their renewed attacks on public schools show.
Read more...If You Look Behind Neoliberal Economists, You’ll Discover the Rich: How Economic Theories Serve Big Business
The road to serfdom – sponsored by big business.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Socialism, Land and Banking: 2017 Compared to 1917
Why did socialism lose out in the 20th century to rentiers promoting neoliberalism?
Read more...The Wine Country Fires: Is Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) a Rogue Utility?
PG&E, tree-trimming, and profit.
Read more...Another Privatization Fail: 5 Things You Don’t Know About School Lunches (but Probably Should)
School lunches: yet another area where the privatization fairy has failed to perform a miracle and cut costs while raising standards.
Read more...Dean Baker: Social Security A Success Story- Can It Withstand Privatization Attacks?
Dean Baker discusses the push toward privatization of Social Security just after the system celebrates its 82nd birthday.
Read more...Trump and the Infrastructure of Fascism
How Trump’s infrastructure plan is a thinly-disguised privatization and deregulation scam.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Deigns to Notice Costly Indiana Toll Road Failure, Depicts It as Isolated When Toll Roads “Consistently” Go Bust
Toll road projects have consistently failed over the last decade and a half, but you never hear that in the mainstream press.
Read more...One-Month Anniversary of the Grenfell Tower Fire: Status Update
The current state of play at Grenfell Tower, with a question yet to be answered.
Read more...Mass Incarceration’s Dangerous New Equilibrium
On the shameful origins of and incentives behind mass incarceration.
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