Financialization: Tackling the Other Virus
The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to tackle another virus that has spread throughout the world since the 1970s: financialization.
Read more...The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to tackle another virus that has spread throughout the world since the 1970s: financialization.
Read more...A hard look at charter school misleading ads, racial segregation, and dodgy economics.
Read more...Citizens opposing a school restructuring plan in Minneapolis remind local officials: “The educational system actually belongs to us.”
Read more...Is there space for a deal in the next bailout bill for saving the Post Office?
Read more...A coronavirus whistleblower winds up also exposing that private equity has too much say in running emergency rooms.
Read more...Coronavirus-generated suspensions of testing throws a monkey wrench into the charter school agenda.
Read more...The French strike over pensions has gone on longer than any other, even in 1968, has 60% support….yet the press barely covers it.
Read more...Why most plans to create a kinder, gentler capitalism fall way short.
Read more...British officials dodged invitations to exclude the NHS from a US-UK trade deal. Not surprising, given how much public money already goes to the US healthcare industry.
Read more...Lynn Fries speaks to Harris Gleckman about the growing corporate influence over our global governance system – and what can be done to stop it.
Read more...Hot takes on the Phase One Grenfell Towers report, which makes good suggestions for the firefighters and determines that the Towers were not up to code, and what should happen in Phase Two.
Read more...A study on Texas turning Medicaid over to private contractors shows mixed results, which is better than most critics would expect. But does this study attribute bennies to privatization that aren’t justified?
Read more...How Trump made the long-standing border boondoggle even bigger.
Read more...Firms that help place handpicked candidates in school leadership positions use those connections to sell other products and services.
Read more...Californians have had it with PG&E. But is San Francisco overpaying to get rid of them? Take a look.
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