Julian Jacobs - Dollars & Sense

Mamdani Needs to Catch the Value Capture Bus

New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has drawn both praise and sneers for his free bus proposal. As detailed

Polly Cleveland Sep 7, 2025

Left Hook Economics

More Babies or Better Care for Newborns?

Most so-called pronatalist policies seriously underestimate the costs and risks of raising children in today’s economic environment.

Nancy Folbre Sep 2, 2025

The D&S Debrief

Interview: Military Keyensianism, Then and Now

An interview with Richard D. Wolff

Richard D. Wolff Aug 31, 2025

JULIAN JACOBS is a Fulbright Scholar, researcher, public speaker, and journalist. His work focuses on inequality in the United States, with an emphasis on how digital technology exacerbates the gap be

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Issue 350

The Dangers of Private Debt: High levels of household and corporate debt in the U.S. are making inequality worse and could make the recession deeper

The U.S. economy is in a bad way. An unprecedented pandemic-borne recession that saw the highest rate of swift

Julian Jacobs Sep 1, 2020