Federal Prosecutors Initiate Criminal Probe of Six Opioid Manufacturers and Distributors
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have initiated an investigation that could lead to criminal charges against at least six opiods companies.
Read more...Category Archives: The destruction of the middle class
Obama Privately Considered Leading ‘Stop-Bernie Campaign’ to Combat Sanders 2020 Surge: Report
Obama would try and stop Sanders if it looks likely Bernie would get the nomination – regardless of whether that’s the best shot to defeat Trump.
Read more...“The UN Is Being Turned into a Public-Private Partnership”: Harris Gleckman Explains Stealth Takeover by World Economic Forum
Lynn Fries speaks to Harris Gleckman about the growing corporate influence over our global governance system – and what can be done to stop it.
Read more...How Neoliberal Thinkers Spawned Monsters They Never Imagined
Neoliberal economics rests on a retrograde vision of society.
Read more...Private Equity Under the Hot Lights Today at House Financial Services Committee Hearing, “America for Sale?”
Private equity gets some long overdue scrutiny.
Read more...Why Aren’t Americans Rising Up Like the People of Chile and Lebanon?
Americans are not big on protests, and people abroad are perplexed
Read more...“Do You Have To Travel the World To Know What Poverty Is?”
A revealing discussion of poverty, in not a good way.
Read more...Millennials’ Health Deteriorating, Projected Mortality Rates Higher Than GenX; “Deaths of Despair” a Major Culprit
A sobering picture of the health outlook for Millennials.
Read more...How the Fed Boosts the 1%: Even the Upper Middle Class Loses Share of Household Wealth to the 1%. Bottom Half Gets Screwed
It is bizarre to see the Fed present data showing the Gilded Age level of wealth accumulation by the 1% as if that were a badge of honor.
Read more...The Political Colour of Fiscal Responsibility: Trump’s Fiscal Policy as a Republican Tradition
Why Democrats are the party of fiscal orthodoxy.
Read more...The Many Ways Sanders and Warren Are Different & Why It Matters
A look at key policy differences between Sanders and Warren.
Read more...Dean Baker: A Bold Plan to Strengthen and Improve Social Security Is What America Needs
Social Security has been oddly absent from the Presidential debate. Time to remedy that.
Read more...The Myth of Shareholder Primacy
A surprising alliance of big business, activists and left-wing politicians have condemned the shareholder value paradigm. But did it ever really exist?
Read more...America Will Keep Losing Its Middle Class as Long as “The Free Market” Dominates the Economic Debate
How free market fundamentalism has undermined industrial policy and other pro-worker measures.
Read more...‘Another Gift’ to Big Business as Trump Treasury Moves to Eliminate Rules Against Corporate Tax Avoidance
Another day, another Trump gift to the wealthy, this one in the form of a corporate tax break.
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