The Plutonomy—AI Edition—and the Coming Crisis
Driven by speculative finance, stagnant wages, and AI hype, today’s tech-heavy economy mirrors the fragile plutonomy that collapsed into the Great Crash of 1929.
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September 11: A Discussion
All of us at Dollars & Sense were shaken by the attacks of September 11. In discussing our response, we
From New Economy to War Economy
Now that the economy needs stimulus, why not insist that government spending shape economic development in socially beneficial ways? Now
The Hidden Costs of Private Accounts
As Bush's handpicked commission on Social Security grapples with the details of diverting Social Security revenue into private
Braceros or Amnesty
The choice is not over what policy will or will not stop people from coming across the border, but over
<a href="http://www.nickthorkelson.com/workersparty.html">Democratizing Brazil</a>
This comic was done for the September/October 2001 issue of Dollars & Sense magazine. It was part of a
College Students Oppose Private Prisons
Dump Sodexho Marriott. That was the message students at over 50 U.S. colleges sent this spring as they protested
Access Denied: Immigrants and Health Care
Nationally, 46% of low-income immigrant children who were not citizens lacked health insurance in 1999, compared to 20% of children whose parents were native born. Scher discussed the implications of lack of health insurance for immigrant children.