Housing Insecurity, Homelessness, and Populism: Evidence from the UK
Cutting subsidies for private rental housing did not do much to reduce overall spending or lower rents but caused a lot of pain.
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New Deal, New Patriots: How Roosevelt’s Welfare Programmes Made America Great Again
Who’d have thunk it? Having goverment do more for citizens, such as New Deal programs, leads to citizens willing to do more for their county.
Read more...Is Bloomberg Buying the DNC? If So, What Does He Plan to Do With It?
A closer look at Bloomberg’s attempted takeover of the DNC.
Read more...Not All Keynesian Spending Is Equal
How “Keynesian” ideas regularly misrepresent Keynes.
Read more...Breakdown or Breakthrough? Degrowth and the Great Transition
We have already surpassed the known limits to growth, so degrowth is our only option.
Read more...Another Sign of Social Decay: Seniors Alone, Unable to Care for Themselves
More grim facts about seniors show the costs of weakened social bonds and communities.
Read more...Developing Countries Showing America Up
America isn’t a very comfortable place.
Read more...How Corporations Are Forcing Their Way Into America’s Public Schools
Virginia shows how corporations such as Amazon, Cisco and Ford want to control schools right down to the curriculum.
Read more...A Socialism Equal to the World
Now that “socialism” is an acceptable word to use in conversation, what should socialists and their potential allies seek?
Read more...Sanders Called JPMorgan’s CEO America’s ‘Biggest Corporate Socialist’ – Here’s Why He Has a Point
As Sanders becomes a formidable 2020 contender, demonizing socialism is back in style.
Read more...Ponzi Schemer Bernie Madoff Asks to Be Released From Prison Under “Compassionate Release,” Igniting Debate Over Fairness
Pondering Madoff’s petition to be freed and the general question of compassionate release programs.
Read more...Dr. Victor Shih: Coronavirus MUCH Worse Than SARS
A downbeat but persuasive take on the likely progression of the coronavirus.
Read more...Anti-Abortion Laws: A War Against Poor Women
Abortion as a class issue.
Read more...A New Type of Conflict: France’s Ongoing Struggle for Pensions
The French strike over pensions has gone on longer than any other, even in 1968, has 60% support….yet the press barely covers it.
Read more...Coronavirus: Not Looking Good
Coronavirus updates.
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