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.
25 articles
How the Coronavirus Crisis Became an Economic Crisis
Some of the economic consequences of a massive communicable-disease crisis might arise in any society, regardless of the system of
Coronavirus, Capitalism, and the Workers' Movement
Part 3: How Inequality Kills, and How to Fight It in the Era of Covid-19
Not Simply a "Natural Disaster"
Part 1 of a new joint series in and Dollars & Sense: "Coronavirus, Capitalism, and the Workers' Movement"
Worst Case Economics
Cross-posted from our sister blog, Triple Crisis. Frank Ackerman is principal economist at Synapse Energy Economics in Cambridge, Mass., and
Reform or Revolution?
Pt. 3 of “European Social Democracy and the Roots of the Eurozone Crisis;” see Part 1 and Part 2 .
European Social Democracy and the Roots of the Eurozone Crisis
Part 2: The Rise of the Third Way(Click for Pt. 1: Monetary Union and Fiscal Disunion.)
European Social Democracy and the Roots of the Eurozone Crisis
Part 1: Monetary Union and Fiscal Disunion
An Historical Perspective on Brexit
Capitalist Internationalism, Reactionary Nationalism, and Socialist Internationalism
Full-Page NYT Ad Against Proponents of Wage Hike
In a full-page ad in Thursday's New York Times, the Employment Policies Institute urged readers to "take
Commemorating Chile’s Unidad Popular
Today, many Chileans—and many sympathizers from around the world—will commemorate and mourn the 40th anniversary of the 1973