November/December 2013

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.

Financing the New Economy

By Abby Scher

By enriching the alternative financial sector, we can nurture the power of workers over capital, an age-old struggle that the financial crisis makes only more urgent. Read more »
Vice Versa: Inequality and Our Economic Problems

By John Miller

Rising inequality is not just bad for us, but is the root cause of today’s economic problems. Read more »
Crooks, Liars, Idiots, and Plutocrats

By Matías Vernengo

Tea Party “idiots” in Congress are the public face of the debt-ceiling crisis, but plutocrats are the real backers and austerity is the real aim. | Read more »
Picket, Fight, and Win

By Seth Grande

Solidarity networks—volunteer mutual support groups that organize around specific cases—defend tenants and workers with direct action. | Read more »

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How to Fight the Credit-Card Sharks—and Win!

By Jim Campen

New consumer protection legislation has reined in predatory credit-card lending. | Order this issue or subscribe.

the regulars

the short run
cartoon Debt! Debt!! Debt!!!
comment Typhoon Haiyun and a Global Coastal Strategy
in review Gar Alperovitz,
What Then Must We Do?
economy in numbers Gender Wage Gap, Part 2
ask dr. dollar What role did securitization play in the housing bubble and collapse?

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

When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor

November/December 2013

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features

the regulars