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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 »

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    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 »

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    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 »

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    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 »

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    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 »

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    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 »

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    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 »

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    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 »

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    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 »

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    The EPA: A Phantom Menace

    By Heidi Garrett-Peltier | August 26th

    Environmental regulations are not “job-killers” after all. Read more »

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    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 »

  • Up Against the Wall Street Journal

    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 »

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    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 »



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