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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Dear Dr. Dollar: Are Governments Economically Stupid in Failing to Suspend Patent Protection for Vaccines?
A recent study from the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) showed that the rich countries' failure to support worldwide vaccinations against Covid-19 is likely to do severe harm to their own economies.
BOEING HIJACKED BY SHAREHOLDERS AND EXECS!
How Boeing workers are battling against perverse corporate incentives, and what their story tells us about our financialized economy.
Monopoly So Fragile
Container ships that have gotten "too big to sail" illustrate one of the less-appreciated harms of monopoly.
Fighting the Wealth Hoarders with Transparency and Taxes
By Polly Cleveland Over the last five years, from my 5th floor apartment window, I’ve watched a blue spire
2021 Annual Labor Issue
Our May/June 2021 Annual Labor Issue is being sent out to e-subscribers today, on International Workers' Day, and
Can the Decline of Unions Be Reversed?
It seems pretty clear that strong labor unions have been important in reducing economic inequality. But as labor unions have
India's Farmers' Protests: What's behind one of the largest protests in history?
In November 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, landowning farmers, and mostly landless farmworkers--men and women, young and
In the Drivers' Seat
Can a cooperative in New York City point the way for imagining alternatives to Big Tech?
Taxing More from the Rich Is Difficult. This Is How to Do It.
By Polly Cleveland In the March 1 UK Prospect, economist James Galbraith offers the Brits, and us, two proposals to