Would Raising Taxes on the Richest New Yorkers Drive Them Away?
What might happen if New York City Mayor Mamdani delivers on increasing income and corporate taxes to the next level?
Read more...Category Archives: The destruction of the middle class
Twin Cities Unions Planning ‘Largest US Rent Strike in 100+ Years’ as ICE Occupation Drives Eviction Crisis
Renters in Minnesota who’ve been afraid to go to work due to ICE thuggery and allies in labor plan a historic rent strike
Read more...One Affordability Battle After Another: What To Do About the AI-Fossil Fuel Industrial Complex
Voters rebel against AI data centers’ electricity costs and fossil fuel pollution, water use, and job loss damage.
Read more...Why Does Economics Refuse to Acknowledge John Ruskin’s Illith, as in Harmful Activity?
Why the economics discipline has ignored John Ruskin’s seminal concept of illith, as in destructive activity.
Read more...Trump’s DHS Is Pushing the Boundaries of Probable Cause and Due Process to Fuel a Farm Labor Crisis
Agricultural employers are scrambling to find replacements and the administration is turning to guest workers.
Read more...Trump’s Concentration Camp Build-Out Includes Nearly $40 Billion for Warehouse Conversions
Disclosure to a GOP governor confirms that Trump plans to devote nearly $40 billion to one element of his concentration camp plan.
Read more...The Finance Curse Is Killing Britain
A well-warranted harsh look at the high cost an overly-large and ever-more-extractive finance sector imposes on society as a whole.
Read more...‘This Is Your Money’: Trump Assault on CFPB Has Cost Consumers $19 Billion
The affordability crisis includes the cost of being cheated, which due to the weakening of the CFPB alone is a handsome sum.
Read more...America’s Real Health Crisis? Inequality— and a Generation Pays
Raw milk won’t cut it. Even being rich won’t save you. The fast track to improving health in America is tackling inequality
Read more...The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think
A Gavin Newsom rap sheet, starting with his fake progressiveness.
Read more...Turmoil at FEMA Adds to the Revolt Against Kristi Noem
Is Kristi Noem incompetent, evil, or just doing exactly what Trump wants her to do? Her misrule at FEMA provides more to consider.
Read more...Why American Life Expectancy is Falling Behind Globally, Falling Apart by State
The features of American life, policy, and economics are stalling out and even shortening life expectancy and what we can do to change it.
Read more...It’s 2026 and You’re Uninsured. Now What?
Congressional inaction and rampaging heath premium increases mean even more Americans will go uninsured. Some suggestions about what to do.
Read more...Michael Hudson and Vijay Prashad: How Hyper-Imperialism Shapes Global Conflict
A rich discussion of how industrial capitalism evolved into imperialism and how its impulses and contradictions are creating more fractures.
Read more...Trump Support Negative Even Among White Working Class; Approval of His Agenda at Only 27%
Trump’s approval ratings continue to slide, even before polls register the effect of the ICE executions. But does that mater to him any more?
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