How the Democrat’s Corrupt Congressional Pay-to-Play Machine Sabotages Progressives and the Popular Will
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as a study in corruption and a vehicle for maintaining elite control.
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Killing a Parasite, Part 2 — How to Implement Student Debt Cancellation
How to fix the student problem – now and going forward.
Read more...Notes on the West Virginia Teachers Strike of 2018
How this strike began, the current state of play, health care as a demand, solidarity, and the role of the Democrats
Read more...Even McKinsey Gets It: High Wages Improve Economic Performance
McKinsey is turning on neoliberal orthodoxy by advocating high employment, high wage, high demand policies.
Read more...Stock Buybacks Hurt Workers and the Economy. We Should Ban Them.
The Reagan Administration ushered in stock buybacks as legalized manipulation. Time to put it to an end.
Read more...MIT Study: Median Uber and Lyft Profits Less Than Half Minimum Wage; 30% of Drivers Lose Money
Yes, it is now official: you really are engaged in exploitation when you use Uber or Lyft.
Read more...With Official Unemployment This Low, Why Are Wages Rising So Slowly?
Why has wage growth been lousy in a supposed recovery? Thank your politicians for fostering the growth of the precariat.
Read more...Priceless Moments: How Capitalism Eats Our Time
Market economy to you: “All your time are belong to us”
Read more...All Guns, No Butter: Military Contractors as Welfare Queens
The Trump budget is particularly shameless in providing more pork to the military despite the absence of any genuine pressing need.
Read more...Killing a Parasite — Canceling Student Debt, Part 1
How student debt is killing its host.
Read more...It Will Take a Political Revolution to Cure the Epidemic of Depression
How cultural developments, like shallow personal connections and authoritarian workplaces, feed the rise in depression.
Read more...Bill Black: Once a Poster Child for Austerity, Latvia Becomes a Hotbed of Corruption
Bill Black discusses how in two years Latvia has morphed from poster child for austerity for the financial press to a nest of banking corruption.
Read more...Beat the Right Wing Framing: How to Make the Case for a Better, Fairer Economy
The right has been winning the PR wars on economic issues. A major UK research project has some ideas for how to turn that around.
Read more...The Dystopian Technologies Being Used to Control Workers
Big companies are surveilling workers more intensively than ever and using that to create high tech sweatshops.
Read more...Don’t Want a Robot to Replace You? Study Tolstoy
Why having explored the humanities is a career plus.
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