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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Even the Wall Street Journal Knows!
Inequality is getting so bad even conservatives have started to acknowledge it. But that doesn't mean they'll do anything serious to make it better.
Selling Lies: The Attack on Social Security
Political choices, not economic forces alone, have shaped the future prospects of the Social Security system.
U.S. Imperialism and U.S. Capitalism
The fundamental needs of U.S. capitalism have played a major role in motivating the U.S. government’s imperial actions.
Trump’s Bifurcated Economy
The labor market, economic growth, and the stock market part ways in today’s ever-more unequal economy.
The U.S. Care Affordability Crisis
Cuts in government spending and deportation threats against the workforce have sent costs soaring in daycare, eldercare, and long-term medical care.
How to End Wars for Oil: Stop Burning Oil Altogether
Progressives all over the world are demanding that there be “no war for oil.” We must also call for the dismantlement of the world’s fossil fuel-dominant global energy infrastructure.
Economists, the Trump Tariffs, and Alternatives
One should not jump from the condemnation of Trump’s tariffs by economists (and others) to an acceptance of free trade as a key to economic progress.
