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Essential--and Expendable--Mexican Labor
On both sides of the border, Mexican workers are now essential--to U.S. corporations.
Corporate Funding of Police Foundations
The lavish overfunding of the police goes beyond public money.
Out of Policy Ideas? Cut Capital Gains Taxes!
Economists react to the Covid-19 economy with a familiar cure-all.
Dating the Recession
Alarmed by the coronavirus-induced economic collapse, the NBER declares the economy in a recession in record time. By John Miller
Murder of George Floyd and My Segregated Youth
By John Weeks John Weeks is a London-based member of the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE), one of the
New: Annual Labor Issue
Our May/June issue, which is our Annual Labor Issue, is finally at the printers. We just posted Nicole Aschoff&
Capitalism’s Surveillance Squeeze
By Zoe Sherman This is the script for Zoe Sherman's contribution to Democracy @ Work's "This
Richard Vague on Credit Expansion and Land Speculation
Frequent D&S author Polly Cleveland interviewed Richard Vague last week (more info here and here); here is the
Workers Unite Film Festival, This Weekend!
The Workers Unite Film Festival offers a number of new films, including “Under the Stack”, focusing on the impacts of
Webinar Interview with Richard Vague, Sunday 5/17 at 1pm
By Polly Cleveland On Sunday, May 17 at 1 PM EST, I will be interviewing Richard Vague, author of A
Review of Matthew Desmond's Evicted
By Polly Cleveland Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City gives us a dramatic closeup of