Barbara Goldoftas - Dollars & Sense

Fighting Climate Change in Portlandia

Not only is failure not an option, those fighting to avert cataclysmic climate change have achieved important successes worthy of celebrating.

Robin Hahnel Feb 20, 2026

March/April 2026

The Bad Romance of Extractive Industry

A Valentine's Day Post from Dollars & Sense

Zoe Sherman Feb 14, 2026

Left Hook Economics

Even the Wall Street Journal Knows!

Inequality is getting so bad even conservatives have started to acknowledge it. But that doesn't mean they'll do anything serious to make it better.

John Miller Feb 13, 2026

Barbara Goldoftas is currently completing a book on the environment and economic development in the Philippines. She teaches nonfiction writing at Wellesley College. Tami J. Friedman is a co-editor of

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Issue 242

To Make a Tender Chicken : Poultry Workers Pay the Price

Once you know about working conditions in a typical poultry processing plant, you may never eat chicken again.

Barbara Goldoftas Jul 1, 2002