From Dollars & Sense magazine:
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Taxing the Rich, from Right to Left
By John Miller | May 11th
When it comes to taxing the rich, Obama’s policies are more conservative than those endorsed by France’s center-right ex-president Sarkozy. Read more »
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How Important is Citizens United?
By Arthur MacEwan | April 10th
Dear Dr. Dollar: Many people are quite concerned about the doctrine of “corporate personhood,” and the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. Did that decision in fact make a crucial difference with regard to the role of money in elections? Read more »
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Funding a National Single-Payer System
By Gerald Friedman | March 30th
Don’t like the Obamacare (or Romneycare) mandate? Single-payer is a viable—and more redistributive—alternative. Read more »
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Way Beyond Greenwashing
By Jonathan Latham | March 2nd
Led by the World Wide Fund for Nature, many of the biggest conservation nonprofits have agreed to a series of global bargains with international agribusiness. In exchange for vague promises of habitat protection, sustainability, and social justice, these conservation groups are offering to greenwash industrial commodity agriculture. Read more »
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Different Anti-Poverty Programs,
Same Single-Mother Poverty
By Randy Albelda | February 7th
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
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
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
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 »
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 »
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