Tax Billionaires, Save Lives: California’s Proposition 40 Is Met With a Heap of Meritless Objections

A one-time tax on the super wealthy is an important step toward greater equality.

John Miller Oct 21, 2026

How to Fund a Fairer Economy—and Reduce Inequality

How can we fund universal childcare, Medicare for All, and a green economy while reducing inequality? A new plan shows how taxing wealth and corporate profits more fairly—and cutting wasteful spending—could pay for a fairer, more prosperous economy.

Nancy Folbre Oct 15, 2026

Left Hook Economics

When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor

From Nixon’s wage controls to today’s interest rate hikes, the fight against inflation has targeted labor.

Arthur MacEwan Oct 2, 2026

Issue 228: March/April 2000

features

Forgotten Generation

Vanessa Lau

In China's rush to a market economy, middle-aged women are left by the wayside.
Public Teams, Private Profits

D. Stanley Eitzen

How pro sports owners run up the score on fans and taxpayers.
The ABCs of the Global Economy

The Dollars &Amp; Sense Collective
A New Labor Movement in the Academy

Gary Zaber
Deciding Who's Poor

Barbara R. Bergmann

the regulars

commentSmall Online Investors are Gambling in a Rigged Casino
making senseMexican Students Win Concessions / Saint Greenspan?
books in reviewSocial Security: The Phony Crisis
ask dr. dollarHow Long Can We Run a Trade Deficit?
economy in numbersToxic Sites Grow, Money for Clean-Up Drops