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 238: November/December 2001

features

Braceros or Amnesty?

David Bacon

Immigrant workers fight for legalization.
Haiti in 2001: Political Deadlock, Economic Crisis

Chris Tilly and Marie Kennedy
Social Security Q&A

Ellen Frank
The Hidden Costs of Private Accounts

Ellen Frank
The Surplus Vanishes: A New Budget Battle

John Miller
Lines in the Sand: A Tourism Debacle in Southern Mexico

Wendy Call
Reversal of Fortune on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast

Mark Pitsch and Rob Ritzenthaler

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