The U.S. Care Affordability Crisis

Cuts in government spending and deportation threats against the workforce have sent costs soaring in daycare, eldercare, and long-term medical care.

Nancy Folbre Jan 21, 2026

Left Hook Economics

How to End Wars for Oil: Stop Burning Oil Altogether

Progressives all over the world are demanding that there be “no war for oil.” We must also call for the dismantlement of the world’s fossil fuel-dominant global energy infrastructure.

Robert Pollin Jan 12, 2026

Left Hook Economics

Economists, the Trump Tariffs, and Alternatives

One should not jump from the condemnation of Trump’s tariffs by economists (and others) to an acceptance of free trade as a key to economic progress.

Arthur MacEwan Jan 8, 2026

Issue 256: November/December 2004—Visions of Economic Justice

features

Social Security Isn't Broken

Doug Orr

But the powers that be have their reasons for making us think it is
African Americans and Social Security

Williams E. Spriggs

Why privatization advocates are wrong
Sharing the Wealth of the Commons

Peter Barnes

Protecting shared resources from market forces
America Beyond Capitalism

Gal Alperovitz

A concrete plan for a post-capitalist "Pluralist Commonwealth"

the regulars

the short run
Dollars & Sense 1974-2004 A retrospective
active culture Filipino dump activists
making sense Corporate tax cut
comment Bush won--now what?
up against the wall street journal Fiddling with the jobs numbers
comic strip of neoliberalism Neoliberalism vs. history
economy in numbers The SSA's flawed forecasting
ask dr. dollar Radical vs. liberal economics