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We've built an economy that depends on unpaid and underpaid care, but penalizes the people who provide it.
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ASSA and Jet Blue
Things may be relatively quiet on the D&S blog for the first week of 2009, as our busiest
Contours of Crisis
We just posted a great web-only article by Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan, co-authors of Capital as Power: A Study
3M CEO on Plant Closings
This is via Doug Henwood at lbo-talk, posted under the heading "Capitalist Thought." He says he doesn'
Left Economics Education Gets a Nod
Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher was in the news (and under arrest) last week after he disrupted a Bureau of Land
Economics of Immigrant Detention in R.I.
This is a pretty horrifying piece from Saturday's Times--excellent reporting. We covered the Rhode Island ICE raids mentioned
WaMu Reckoning
This is from a series from the New York Times called "The Reckoning" exploring the causes of the
Rebuild the Economy: Invest in People
The New York Times published my letter below December 26, 2008. Meanwhile, Mother Jones has just published (not yet online)
Judge Finds Starbucks Guilty of Union-Busting
Some good news: an NLRB victory for Starbucks workers, organizing with the Industrial Workers of the World, aka the Wobblies.
FT Falls Down on IndyMac Fraud
The Financial Times had a rather pithy piece (see below in full) on the fraud at IndyMac, reported in yesterday&
Iceland Gives Christmas Frosty Reception
A grim story from today's Financial Times (posted to their website yesterday). Best quote, from the end of
Feldstein: Let the Stimulus Be Military
Martin Feldstein, econ professor at Harvard and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Reagan, reveals in this
O. to Create Loopholes for Venture Capitalists
From our friends at the American Small Business League. We posted an earlier press release from them about Obama'