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What’s Different About Today’s Government Deficit and Debt?

As of today, the U.S. government’s current deficit and debt are indeed currently at unprecedented levels for peacetime—once we account for them appropriately.

Robert Pollin Jul 1, 2025

Left Hook

No Tax on Tips

Even the stand-alone No Tax on Tips Act would do far too little to better the lot of low-income workers, even tipped workers.

John Miller Jun 27, 2025

Left Hook

The Stealthy Strategy to Strangle Medicaid

Republicans want to make it even harder for low-income people to get health care.

Nancy Folbre Jun 25, 2025

Issue 318: May/June 2015

Land Reform

Jawied Nawabi

This primer explains why land reform is a precondition for sustainable economic development. | Read more »
The Corinthian Crisis

Christopher Cooper

Some are profiting from people who look to education as a step up to better working-class jobs. But some former students are fighting back. | Read more »
The Student Loan Crisis and the Debtfare State

Susanne Soederberg

How the government is helping to make the student loan debt trap the new normal. | Read more »
A Way Out for Greece and Europe

Marie Christine Duggan

A solution like the one Keynes proposed for Britain towards the end of WWII would offer Greece the best way out today. | Read more »

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Can “Abenomics” Revive Japan’s Economy?

Junji Tokunaga

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