July/August 2023

New York City Nurses Confront an Austerity Avalanche

Medicaid cuts are being used to push austerity in hospitals’ contract negotiations with nurses, even as some hospitals dabble in financial speculation and their CEOs rake in millions.

Why Prison Education Matters

Tyler Bowman

An Inside View | Read more »
Death and Inequality

Arthur Macewan

Health outcomes and death rates are strongly connected to the large economic inequality that exists in the United States. | Read more »
Mixing Oil and Water

Bill Barclay

How the political economy of energy and food links Southern California and Saudi Arabia. | Read more »
The Potential of Tax Reform in Latin America

C.p. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

Some countries aim provide more crucially needed public revenues by shifting more of the tax burden to the rich and large corporations. | Read more »

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the regulars

editors’ note Summer Reading, D&S-Style!
the short run
two cents
cartoon 5 Things Congress says when it plans to cut Social Security
tribute Remembering Jeanne Winner
up against the wall street journal The Debt Ceiling: What's It All About?
in review Edible Economics by Ha-Joon Chang | The Huntington Theater’s production of The Lehman Trilogy
economy in numbers The Economic Environment of Gen Z

Where Have All the New Jobs Gone?

New York City Nurses Confront an Austerity Avalanche

Taxing the Top

July/August 2023

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