Unemployment claims continue to increase, with nearly 20% collecting unemployment insurance. even according to the stringent claims criteria.
Read more...Lance Taylor explains that wage repression — far more than monopoly power, offshoring or technological change — is driving rising inequality.
Read more...Discussing taxation proposals by inequality mavens Emanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman.
Read more...Thomas Frank explains why populist campaigners face such a hostile environment now.
Read more...In Italy and elsewhere around the globe, climate change will worsen existing inequalities, researchers say.
Read more...Not surprisingly, fighting inequality has always been an uphill battle, but history gives some insight on tactics.
Read more...As we cruise into Labor Day, the state of permanent U.S. unemployment is dire; and with no end in sight to the pandemic, will only worsen.
Read more...Riots and street violence are often blamed for producing a political backlash, but the real picture is more complex.
Read more...The coronavirus’ effect has been to help defeat the financial sector’s enemy, governments strong enough to regulate it.
Read more...Jan Kregel explains the fundamental problem with the economic system is its focus on providing finance to investors.
Read more...Hunger is on the rise. Grocery store operators see weaker spending now that the $600/week unemployment supplements are gone.
Read more...Political scientist Tom Ferguson juxtaposes the factions around Biden with how Roosevelt eventually stared down banks and corporatists in the second phase of the New Deal
Read more...New data on how many lost their health insurance, which often means health care, due to Covid. And the numbers are not getting better soon.
Read more...The Russian version of America’s flyover has it pretty bad: declining industries and environmental stress.
Read more...Yanis Varioufakis discusses the emerging shape of postcapitalism.
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