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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Dodd-Frank revisited
A headline in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had me wondering whether their proofreader had missed an extra comma: Wall
Last-Minute Tax-Day Actions
I always do my taxes at the last minute, so it's characteristic of me to be doing a
AP and USA Today Fall for GE Tax Repayment Hoax
Another hoax perpetrated by the Yes Men is going on right now in real time. Here's the fake
Friends with Benefits; Unpaid Work; Events; etc.
(1) Friends with Benefits: A nice and timely post from the Focal Point blog at Big Think (which is where
John Millerat US Uncut Protest; Jonathan Rowe
1. U.S. Uncut Teach-In John Miller, D&S collective member and columnist, participated in a recent US Uncut
Left Forum and UALE
Apologies to regular blog readers--I have been too busy going to, and preparing for, conferences to find good material on
D&S Panel at Left Forum
D0llars & Sense is sponsoring a panel discussion at this year's Left Forum on the state of the
Vegan Protest Fuel in Madison, and more
(1) Vegan Protest Fuel: Today's syllogism: “All Wisconsinites may be cheeseheads, but not all Wisconsinites eat cheese,” therefore,
Activists Shut Down BoA Branch in D.C., and more
(1) NPA Activists Shut Down BoA Branch in D.C. From today's Democracy Now!: Activists Shut Down Bank
NYS Assembly Hearings on Property Tax Cap
Polly Cleveland, author of our current lead article, Restore the Original Wealth Tax, testified before the New York State legislature
Across the Great Divide
A review of Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future, by Robert Reich (New York: Alfred Knopf, 2010).
Restore the Original Wealth Tax
There's an alternative to the drastic cuts in public services state and local officials are proposing: restore the