The Pandemic Shows the Importance of Funding Early Childcare and Education Infrastructure (Updated)
Why investment in childcare and education provides high returns yet has been largely ignored in Covid-19 responses.
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The Best Law Capital Can Buy
A review of the important new book “The Code of Capital: How the law creates wealth and inequality.”
Read more...Grenfell Tower Fire: Third-Year Anniversary (Non-)Progress Report
Some progress on Grenfell Tower: Remediating apartment blocks, ongoing inquiries, regulatory proposals. But not nearly enough. And then there’s the potential IT boondoggle. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy…
Read more...How America’s Covid-19 Rescues Look Set to Increase Inequality
Why the Covid-19 bailouts are coming at a high social cost.
Read more...Meritocracy Legitimizes, Deepens Inequality
Why meritocracy ain’t what it’s cracked up to be.
Read more...Some Thoughts on New York City and the Dim Prospects for American Cities
Major cities are in serious trouble and hte outlook is grim.
Read more...Forty Percent of Police Families Experience Domestic Violence, Compared to 10% in the General Population
More evidence of lack of impulse control on behalf of a meaningful number of police officers.
Read more...Unsung Heroines: Who Cares for the Carers?
Even before COVID-19, the world was facing a care crisis, a problem that is only worsening.
Read more...The Cost of Staying Open: Voluntary Social Distancing and Lockdowns in the US
Yves here. As various analyses have shown, in many places, governments implemented lockdowns after citizens had started restricting their activities to avoid contracting Covid-19. It’s useful to see economists address the question of what the cost of doing nothing or very little would have been. By Adam Brzezinski, DPhil (PhD) candidate in Economics, University of […]
Read more...There’s a Crisis in U.S. Capitalism
U.S. economic policy now focuses on what is already the worst business cycle downturn since the 1929 crash. As data accumulate, it may well prove to be the worst in global capitalism’s entire history.
Read more...Fliers Beware: Poor Mask Discipline Endemic Even Among Airline, Airport Staff
Airlines and airports are cutting their workers way too much slack in mask wearing. They are a hazard to each other and to passengers.
Read more...Pushed by National Uprising, Democratic Lawmakers Unveil Legislation to Overhaul Policing
Democrats introduce comprehensive policing reform legislation , but without Republican support, the best possible scenario is some repetition of the stimulus mess.
Read more...The Day Is Dawning On a Four-Day Work Week
The four-day work week could be another wild idea that makes it through the pandemic’s open policy window.
Read more...How Africa is Coping With Coronavirus
Politics and the caliber of social programs have influenced how countries in Africa have tried to limit the economic damage of the coronavirus.
Read more...Liz Theoharis: Organizing the Rich or the Poor? Which America Will Be Ours After the Pandemic?
Why the poor will be more successful in gaining material and political ground if they design initiatives and advocate.
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