We Need a Care Package!
We've built an economy that depends on unpaid and underpaid care, but penalizes the people who provide it.
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Long-term unemployment bad enough to warrant action
The latest Economic Snapshot from the Economic Policy Institute. The White House has demanded that legislators not extend unemployment benefits
Policy Paradoxes in the Financial Meltdown
This posting is from James Miehls, a grad student in economics at UMass-Amherst and a member of the D&
Accountability for the Crisis
This posting is by Arjun Jayadev, who teaches economics at UMass Boston and is a member of the D&
The Heritage Foundation Still Won't Set You Free
We just received our free review copy of the 2008 Index of Economic Freedom, the annual ode to meaningless statistics
A Dream Foreclosed
Rampant home foreclosures have made the headlines lately, but hidden on the back pages, or ignored entirely, is the wildly
From NAFTA to the SPP
Here comes the Security and Prosperity Partnership, but--what security? whose prosperity?
Online Resource of the Day
Dollars & Sense readers and supporters will find the PLA website most informative. The Predatory Lending Association mission: To help
Oil-Palm Plantations on Afro-Colombian Lands
We received the following letter from the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia, in response to our article on the devastating effects of the expanding palm oil industry on Afro-Colombian communities of the Pacific coast (Blood on the Palms, July/August 2007). The author of the article, David Bacon, thou