From Dollars & Sense magazine:
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Different Anti-Poverty Programs, Same Single-Mother Poverty
By Randy Albelda | February 7th, 2012
Four years into a period of deep recession and persistent economic crisis, only now has the p-word—poverty—finally surfaced. Read more »
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Why the United States Is Not Greece
By John Miller and Katherine Sciacchitano | January 19th, 2012
Even for those who understand that cutting deficits right now will only weaken a still-fragile recovery, getting past the argument that “a eurozone crisis is on its way” is no easy task. Here is a self-defense lesson. Read more »
The Great Recession in Black Wealth
By Jeannette Wicks-Lim | January 16, 2012
The Great Recession produced the largest setback in racial wealth equality in the United States over the last quarter century. In 2009 the average white household’s wealth was twenty times that of the average black household, nearly double that in previous years. Read more »
Government “Living Within Its Means”?
By John Miller | January 4th, 2012
Neither families nor businesses balance their books in the sense of forgoing borrowing. And even if they did, to insist that government do the same would extinguish whatever remains of economic growth and job creation, not ignite them. Read more »
Public-Sector Workers Under Attack
By Gerald Friedman | December 7th
Republicans have been the face of the attack on public employees but Democrats, even liberals, have been right there with them. Read more »
America Beyond Capitalism
By Gar Alperovitz | November 11th
How thousands of co-ops, worker-owned businesses, land trusts, and municipal enterprises are quietly beginning to democratize the deep substructure of the American economic system.Read more »
The 99%, the 1%, and Class Struggle
By Alejandro Reuss | November 3rd
Examining an #OccupyWallStreet slogan from the point of view of the source of people’s income—from wages, or from property? Read more »
Cops for Labor?
By Kristian Williams | October 3rd
Police support for protesters, as happened briefly in Wisconsin in February, is an exception to the historical rule. Read more »
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The People’s Budget
By John Miller | September 20th
A plan to get deficit-reduction off our backs. Read more »
Rank-and-File Economics
By Katherine Sciacchitano | September 13th
Riddle 1: When is a recovery not a recovery?
Riddle 2: When is a stimulus not a stimulus?
Riddle 3: When will it be possible to rebuild the economy? Read more »
Conflicting Dreams at Boeing
By Josh Eidelson | August 26th
The right wing is apoplectic about the recent NLRB ruling against Boeing. But what do workers have to say about the strikes that made Boeing a flashpoint? Read more »
The EPA: A Phantom Menace
By Heidi Garrett-Peltier | August 26th
Environmental regulations are not “job-killers” after all. Read more »
Fiscal Austerity: The Wrong Medicine
By Alejandro Reuss | August 2nd
Fiscal austerity during a slump is like cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face—except that it is other people’s noses that the pro-austerity faction aims to lop off. Read more »
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Wrong about Right-to-Work
By John Miller | July 20th
This time, it’s right-to-work laws, not taxes, that come in for the full Laffer treatment (although without the illustration on the back of a cocktail napkin). Read more »
Are Low Wages and Job Loss Inevitable?
By Arthur MacEwan | June 15th
Dear Dr. Dollar:
The main narrative that I hear in mainstream press is that U.S. workers are being undercut and eventually displaced by global competition. Is this right? Read more »
Jobs, Deficits, and the Misguided Squabble over the Debt Ceiling.
By Tim Koechlin | August 5th
Why the absurd squabble over the debt ceiling was distracting, destructive, and almost entirely beside the point. Read more »
Local Activism against Wal-Mart
Corporate Power, Wal-Mart and the Undermining of the Democratic Process
By Joel Harrison | April 13, 2011
Is the Wal-Mart Way the American Way?
By Martin J. Bennett | April 13, 2011
Why Is the Government Buying Long-Term Bonds?
By Alejandro Reuss | January 19th, 2011
Questions and Answers on the Fed’s “QE2” program. Read more »
The Greatest Recovery, Part II
By Mark Provost | January 19th, 2011
The Greatest Recovery in corporate profits and the Great Recession are two sides of the same coin. Read more »
The Greatest Recovery, Part I
By Mark Provost | December 16th, 2010
The Greatest Recovery in corporate profits and the Great Recession are two sides of the same coin. Read more »
The Deficit Commission and Redistribution
By Darwin BondGraham | November 23rd, 2010
President Obama’s Deficit Commission has proposed a plan to rewrite the social contract, and to make the poor and middle class pay. Read more »
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Laffer’s Latest Curve Ball
By John Miller | October 18th, 2010
Arthur Laffer is peddling more of the same bad tax policy as he inveighs against Washington State Initiative 1098, which would tax state residents with incomes over $200,000. Read more »
The Jobs Crisis and the Art of Flexible Labor
By Dan DiMaggio | October 18th, 2010
The bizarre experience that over 500 other workers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area had recently sheds some light on the growing expectations of absolute “flexibility” if you want a job. Read more »
Arctic Power...with Added Cleansers
By Maurice Dufour | February 17th, 2010
All the negative press over Canada’s dirty oil is taking its toll on our national psyche. For years, our self-image as responsible environmental stewards had made us smug; now Canada’s just another carbon thug. Read more »
Haiti’s Fault Lines: Made in the U.S.A.
By Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly | February 4th, 2010
Pace Pat Robertson, the devil had little to do with Haiti’s underdevelopment. Instead, the fingerprints of more mundane actors—France and later the United States—are all over the crime scene. Read more »
A Vision of Economic Justice
By Howard Zinn | January 29th, 2010
For our 30th-anniversary issue (Nov/Dec 2004), we asked prominent leftists to “describe their vision of a more economically just world 30 years hence, and to outline what they consider the most important steps to take today to move toward that vision.” Here’s the still-timely contribution from Howard Zinn, who died on January 27th. Read more »
Economic Rights, Then and Now
By Susan Feiner | January 11th, 2010
What is the state of the economic rights that FDR unveiled in his “Second Bill of Rights” 66 years ago? Read more »
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