It may seem peculiar to offer a defense of sort to the IRS, since most people here regard doing their taxes with even less enthusiasm than a visit to the dentist (although attitudes depend very much on the state of one’s finances and teeth). However, the reporting on the Democratic Party plan to increase IRS […]
Read more...How companies are paying dividends rather than investing in their business or paying employees better……and often borrow to do so.
Read more...A look at some of the tax and tax collection changes in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Read more...Rikers Island was designed to hold people accused of crimes less than a year. Why have some been there for six, eight and even 10 years?
Read more...The Fed confirms its true colors of being in the business of disciplining labor, whether it makes sense of not.
Read more...Community schools appear to be solving the long-standing education gap between the affluent and the less privileged.
Read more...Social Security is so popular that an overwhelming majority wants more. But that’s apparently one of the nice things we can’t have.
Read more...Inflation is putting families with big ongoing medical costs under terrible stress.
Read more...Workers and employers bargain over the surplus income generated by an employment relationship. This column uses information about key events in Germany relevant for wage negotiations, like labour strikes and the introduction of a minimum wage, to pinpoint changes in bargaining power between workers and employers. It finds that such wage bargaining ‘shocks’ are important drivers of unemployment and inflation and that their effect on wages is almost fully reflected in prices. Furthermore, they reduce the vacancy rate and increase firms’ profits and the labour share of income in the short run, but not in the long run.
Read more...Protestors in Brazil want to change the government, end neo-fascism, and ensure Constitutional rights.
Read more...Employees at Drax, Grangemouth and other energy sites will walk out every fortnight as firms rake in huge profits.
Read more...East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative takes historic real estate off the speculative market in West Oakland to help residents.
Read more...More on the EU upset over Italy’s move to the right, like the expected success of Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia) in Sept. elections.
Read more...Union organizers are making headway, as measured by the more-aggressive cororate efforts to hobble them.
Read more...American became an outlier among rich countries in mortality rates pre pandemic, and Americans are dying younger than their peers abroad.
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