As lower and middle income Americans slide into dire straits thanks to Covid-19, political pressure is building. But are Americans capable of rebellion?
Read more...The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on lower-income communities was decades in the making.
Read more...Even Covid-19 can have a silver lining: industry supply chain breakage and relocalization initiatives are bringing some manufacturing back to the US.
Read more...The 24th San Quentin inmate died Friday of COVID-19 complications, an inevitable consequence of Calironia’s misguided transfer policy.
Read more...A high level, if flawed, critique of democracy American style.
Read more...No news on the stimulus front is very very bad news.
Read more...After too many years of “Let them eat training,” a more practical answer to trade-induced job losses.
Read more...An inadequate second stimulus is guaranteed. The only question is “how inadequate”?
Read more...John Weeks was a leading critic of economic orthodoxy who dedicated his life to building a better world.
Read more...A reader query focused on small businesses.
Read more...NYT piece on contact tracing doesn’t see what good health care has to do with why some of these efforts elsewhere have worked well.
Read more...Thomas Frank: If Biden and the corporate Democrats continue to deny the concerns of populist movements, they ensure a new Trump will emerge
Read more...Thomas Frank discuss how Democrats try to have it both ways, wrapping themselves in FDR’s good name while dissing pretty much everything he stood for.
Read more...Another look at deaths of despair confirms the danger of job loss and even too-early retirement.
Read more...How workers in Mexico are now essential—to U.S. corporations.
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