Gar Alperovitz - Dollars & Sense

No Matter How You Look at It, the Big Beautiful Bill is a Monstrosity

Here are three views of the bill's horrific distributional consequences.

John Miller Jul 7, 2025

Left Hook

What’s Different About Today’s Government Deficit and Debt?

As of today, the U.S. government’s current deficit and debt are indeed currently at unprecedented levels for peacetime—once we account for them appropriately.

Robert Pollin Jul 1, 2025

Left Hook

No Tax on Tips

Even the stand-alone No Tax on Tips Act would do far too little to better the lot of low-income workers, even tipped workers.

John Miller Jun 27, 2025

Gar Alperovitz teaches political economy at the University of Maryland and leads the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives.

2 articles

Issue 297

America Beyond Capitalism

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.

Gar Alperovitz Nov 1, 2011

Issue 256

America Beyond Capitalism

What a "Pluralist Commonwealth" Would Look Like

Gar Alperovitz Nov 1, 2004