Issue 240: March/April 2002

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.

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Organizing After September 11

Autumn Leonard, Tomas Aguilar, Mike Prokosch, and Dara Silverman

"Everything has changed", but there's a lot that isn't so different.
The Enron Fun Pages

A quiz, a contest, a maze, and more!
Economic Debacle in Argentina: The IMF Strikes Again

Arthur Macewan
Industry Attacks on Dissent: From Rachel Carson to Oprah

Laura Orlando

Forty years after the publication of Silent Spring, corporations are still trying to silence critics.
Does the "New Economy" Tilt to the Right?

Phineas Baxandall
D&S Reader Survey (PDF version)

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ask dr. dollar the discount rate
primer The Emperor's New Clothes
economy in numbers How States Are Spending Their Welfare Money - Or Not

Was It a Good Jobs Report or a Bad One?

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

How to Fund a Fairer Economy—and Reduce Inequality

Issue 240: March/April 2002

features

the regulars