Laura Orlando - 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

Laura Orlando is a member of the Dollars & Sense collective and the director of the ReSource Institute for Low Entropy Systems [http://www.riles.org/], a non-profit concerned with public health and th

2 articles

Issue 240

Industry Attacks on Dissent: From Rachel Carson to Oprah

Forty years after the publication of Silent Spring, corporations are still producing poisons--and still trying to keep critics from fighting back.

Laura Orlando Mar 1, 2002

Issue 235

Sustainable Sanitation

A Global Health Challenge

Laura Orlando May 1, 2001