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:
Can you explain what trade deficits are? Who owes what to whom or is it just an accounting device? —Jack Miller, Indianapolis, Ind. I see that the United States has had a negative international trade balance for years. What happens to those dollars we've sent overseas? —Bill Clark, Chillicothe, Ohi
To the Editor
Retired professor Tom Reeves ("Still Up Against the Death Plan in Haiti," September/October 2003) made three serious
The Short Run
Obey Your Television You may already suspect that the television possesses near-supernatural powers of control—now there's proof.
Space Wars
Interview with Bruce Gagnon - The administration's proposal for human space exploration is designed to project U.S. military power into the skies.
Who Votes, and How?
Of the last four presidential elections won by the Republican candidate, the two closest ones (in 1980 and 2000) would
Wealth Inequality by the Numbers
https://www.dollarsandsense.org/content/files/2025/02/0104inequality-1.pdf
Immigrant Restaurant Workers Hope to Rock New York
Following 9/11, displaced restaurant workers are transforming grief into action.
<a href="http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2003/1103balance.pdf">Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria</a>
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Dear Dr. Dollar:
A Republican friend tells me that the huge new tax cuts will actually produce more revenue than the government would have collected before the cut, because once rich beneficiaries invest the money, they will pay taxes on every transaction. He suggested that the increase could be as much as 50% more
Backs to the Wall
Israel's stranglehold on the Palestinian economy is consolidated by a massive wall.