Jeremy Smith and Howard Rosenfeld

Trump’s Midterm Rebuke and Economic Hardship

From stagnant wages and rising prices to widening inequality, the economic forces behind voters’ growing discontent reveal a deeper, decades-long problem.

John Miller Nov 13, 2026

The Political Economy of Palestine

Introducing a Collaboration between the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS) and Dollars & Sense

Jennifer C. Olmsted Nov 1, 2026

Left Hook Economics

Zapping Labor: The Sharp Rise of Income Inequality Initiated in the Early 1980s

How Federal Reserve policies, the recession they triggered, and broader political and economic changes weakened workers’ power and helped usher in an era of extreme inequality.

Arthur MacEwan Oct 28, 2026

Jeremy Smith is publisher of Dollars and Sense. Howard Rosenfeld works with Free Radio Gainesville and Gainesville’s Civic Media Center, a nonprofit reading room of the alternative press.

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Issue 223

Radio For People, Not Profit

Gainesville, Florida is the kind of Southern college town where Spanish moss drips from the dogwoods and fraternity brothers binge-

Jeremy Smith and Howard Rosenfeld May 1, 1999