Some thoughts from a former tomato picker – moi – on the call from Prince Charles for furloughed workers to help with the food harvest in Britain.
Read more...Whatever you may think of Bernie Sanders suspending his presidential campaign, his criticism of corporations who laud workers as heroes while refusing to pay them is spot on.
Read more...Thursday’s unemployment numbers show that the U.S. unemployment numbers have not yet bottomed out – and that instead, the problem is worsening at a gut-wrenching pace.
Read more...WSJ reports the DOJ and various state attorneys general will soon file antitrust lawsuits against Google, but is short on legal details.
Read more...The inescapable dilemma facing social democracy
Read more...Trump appointees use the COVID-19 crisis to rollback consumer protections against financial predation put in place by the CFPB.
Read more...In case you wondered why conservative states are all gung ho about reopening….
Read more...Once again, income earned by the many is used to save the wealth of the few.
Read more...Looking at how to cope with the college and university funding crisis.
Read more...US universities are facing a world of hurt.
Read more...“Nothing fundamental will change.” –Joe Biden
Read more...Tom Ferguson and Paul Jay discuss how Democrats and Republicans distaste for accountability by finance and big corporations is playing out in the coronacrisis
Read more...Why unemployment is a feature of capitalism.
Read more...Yves here. This short piece looks at some of the intuitions about the relationship between rising household debt levels and increasing inequality. And they sure do look to be connected! By Alina Bartscher, University of Bonn, Moritz Kuhn, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Bonn and Moritz Schularick, Professor of Economics, University of Bonn. Originally […]
Read more...Hunger levels are shooting up and Republicans want to do as little as possible about it.
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