The Universal Basic Income Discussion
Kicking the tires on various Universal Basic Income proposals.
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Nina Turner: Wall St. Democrats vs. Working Class Democrats
A wide-ranging discussion with Nina Turner from the People’s Summit in Chicago.
Read more...EU Competition Commissioner Vestager Targets Unaccountable Facebook Algos as Threat at Launch of New “Pro-Democracy” Movement
Facebook is finally getting some long overdue, serious pushback.
Read more...Matt Bruenig: Data Contradicts Washington Post’s Social Security Disability Welfare Cheating Story
Debunking a Washington Post narrative on the Social Security Disability Income program.
Read more...Starved School Budgets Across the US: A Symptom of Education Funding Crisis
School budgets are in worse shape in many parts of the US than you might have imagined.
Read more...Supreme Court Lexmark Patent Decision A Win for State Right to Repair Legislation
Interprets patent exhaustion doctrine to prevent patent holders from imposing use and sale restrictions; implicitly endorses repair.
Read more...Apple Spends Big to Thwart Right to Repair in New York and Elsewhere
Apple spends big to thwart right to repair, while efforts to expand into to India meet mixed results and fail to snare concessions as sought.
Read more...Matt Bruenig: More Job Guarantee Muddle
Why there is a lot not to like in the Center for American Progress’ job guarantee proposal.
Read more...Toward a Jobs Guarantee at the Center for American Progress (!)
A look at a new Jobs Guarantee proposal from Neera Tanden and Rey Teixeira.
Read more...More Evidence School Choice Hurts Student Performance
More proof that “school choice” as in vouchers, is about profiteering and ideology rather than better education.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: America’s Globalization of Misery
A hard look at the results of one of America’s globalization projects, that of the casual creation of failed states.
Read more...The Financial Crisis That Spawned Austerity, Corporatized the Democratic Party and Gave the World Donald Trump
Why New York City’s fiscal crisis was a watershed event.
Read more...The Role of Social Security Wealth: A Head-to-Head Comparison of Germany and the US
Crunching some numbers on the value of social safety nets shows Americans are not as well off as pundits and pols would have you believe.
Read more...Falling Through the Cracks: Insecure Work and the Social Safety Net
How the redefinition of work is not just imposing costs on laborers but society via factors like stress and poor training.
Read more...Chicago Shows How Charter School Profiteering Bleeds Public Schools Without No Performance Improvement and Higher Segregation
Chicago as a case study in charter school rent extraction.
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