Corbyn’s Critics: Time to Come Round
After six shocks in three years, can Corbyn sceptics face the party’s new reality?
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The Real Driver of Rising Inequality
Wage suppression—not monopoly power—is fueling corporate profits and the relentless rise in inequality.
Read more...California Supreme Court Ruling Delivers Big Blow to Gig Economy Companies
Many gig economy firms will have to classify a big swathe of their workers as employees or radically change their business models.
Read more...The US Teachers Strike in Historical Perspective
Past strike waves offer clues to the possible regeneration of the American labor movement.
Read more...Universal Basic Income and Minimum Wages: Progressive or Regressive?
How plans for a universal basic income differ, and what that means in terms of probable results.
Read more...Want a More Equal Society? Universal Basic Income Might Not Be the Policy You Are Looking For
Why a Universal Basic Income won’t produce the benefits its boosters claim it will.
Read more...The Federal Job Guarantee Is Not Just “Better” Than a Universal Basic Income. It’s the Only Reasonable Option. Universal Basic Income Is Sinister
Why a federal job guarantee is sound policy and a universal basic income isn’t.
Read more...Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity
Why American work norms are largely counterproductive.
Read more...Analysing Wealth Inequality: A Conceptual Reflection
Why the way economists think about wealth is too narrow, and how to start to remedy that.
Read more...5 Policies That Could Improve Housing for the Renting Generation
Housing has become a more divisive issue than ever, as rising real estate costs and less job stability make buying a house both harder and more fraught. Renters need better protections, but how to get there?
Read more...Gaius Publius: How the Democrats Could, and Probably Will, Blow 2020
How the Democrats are conspiring to snatch defeat from the jaws of a 2020 victory.
Read more...Students as Teachers: Facing the World Adults Are Wrecking
Belle Chesler, a teacher, writes about what students already know, and what they are contributing, in the fight for social change in a broken America.
Read more...US Opioid Prescriptions Fall at Record Rate
Some good news on the opioid front is not good enough.
Read more...Another Big Retailer Gets Liquidated
Retailers in bankruptcy are notoriously hard to restructure.
Read more...Why Americans’ Hatred of Taxes Is Fake News
Newspapers consistently underplay wide public support for higher taxes on businesses and the wealthy.
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