New York City Nurses Confront an Austerity Avalanche
Medicaid cuts are being used to push austerity in hospitals’ contract negotiations with nurses, even as some hospitals dabble in financial speculation and their CEOs rake in millions.
Issue 307
5 articles
Dear Dr. Dollar: Black-White Income Differences: What’s Happened?
There is a great deal of awareness of the general increase of income inequality in the United States. But what's happened to the income inequality between African Americans and European Americans ("Black-White" inequality)?
Pursuing Profits--or Power?
Do corporations seek to maximize profits? Or do they seek to maximize power? The two may be complementary--wealth begets power,
Collapsing Investment and the Great Recession
Investment in real inputs--structures and machinery used to boost future output and productivity--is one of the ways that an economy