More Babies or Better Care for Newborns?
Most so-called pronatalist policies seriously underestimate the costs and risks of raising children in today’s economic environment.
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Dear Dr. Dollar: Has Neoliberalism Underfunded Schools?
Covid-19 has created severe problems for schools, kids, their parents, and the schools' teachers and staff. But weren't these problems already there and worsened by the long-term underfunding of the schools? --Anonymous, via email
"Common Sense" Without Evidence Is Nonsense
What are the actual effects of enhanced unemployment benefits?
Solidarity Beyond the Crisis: How to truly build back better
In the aftermath of the wreckage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's promise to
Review of "Liberty from All Masters," by Barry C. Lynn
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Review of Break ‘Em Up, by Zephyr Teachout
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Coronavirus, Capitalism, and the Workers' Movement
Part 3: How Inequality Kills, and How to Fight It in the Era of Covid-19
The Dangers of Private Debt: High levels of household and corporate debt in the U.S. are making inequality worse and could make the recession deeper
The U.S. economy is in a bad way. An unprecedented pandemic-borne recession that saw the highest rate of swift
How Green Is Joe Biden's Green New Deal?
If Mr. Biden's proposal isn't quite the Green New Deal, you can see a likeness. But
How the Coronavirus Crisis Became an Economic Crisis
Some of the economic consequences of a massive communicable-disease crisis might arise in any society, regardless of the system of
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We have sent our latest (July/August 2020) issue to the printers and to e-subscribers, and we'd already
Review of Thomas Frank's "The People, No"
By Polly Cleveland These days the major media fill with denunciations of populists. They are the ignorant people who rally