More on Deaths of Despair: New Study Links Early Job Loss to Higher Rates of Overdose Deaths and Suicides
Another look at deaths of despair confirms the danger of job loss and even too-early retirement.
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Thomas Frank: Populism is Not Mob Rule
Liberal elites see mass movements as endangering their ‘educated and wise leadership’. Populism and anti-populism has deep roots in American history.
Read more...Unequal Consequences of COVID-19 Across Age and Income
A six-country look at who is affected by Covid-19 and what there responses tend to be.
Read more...Indian Farmers Are Staring at Suicide as Modi Government Looks the Other Way
An account from India on farmer suicide and why many could have been prevented.
Read more...Are American Colleges and Universities the Next Covid Casualties?
Colleges and universities need to be saved, not only from financial ruin, but also, all too often, from themselves.
Read more...There Can Be No Equality Without a Dramatic Renewal of Employment Opportunity for All American Workers
Workers, and above all black workers, lost out when unions came under attack and corporate profiteering and short-termism became the norm.
Read more...Why Africa’s Green Revolution Failed
A new report shows Africa’s Green Revolution is “failing on its own terms.”
Read more...Learning to Love State Capitalism
We’re constantly told that state capitalism is back. But these narratives are far from innocent.
Read more...Introducing *An Economic Program for American Democracy*
A 1938 economic manifesto makes modern day schemes look inadequate and unimaginative.
Read more...“Cancel Culture,” Race and the Greed of the Billionaire Class
Why cancel culture gets the elites off the inequality hook.
Read more...Covid-19 Bankruptcies Bleeding Out Jobs, Economic Capacity
Covid-19 bankrupties show how the disease is draining the economy.
Read more...What to Do if COVID-19 Is Here to Stay
If Covid-19 can’t be beaten soon, how do we cope?
Read more...Big Pharma Wants to Pocket the Profits From a COVID Treatment You Already Paid For
Why Gilead’s price gouging for its Covid-19 treatment remdevisir is even more egregious than you thought.
Read more...After Years of Underfunding, Now Public School Teachers Are Supposed to Save the Nation’s Economy?
Teachers are again in the middle of a political fight, this one over the perceived need to reopen US schools pronto.
Read more...Universities in a Mess Over Upcoming Year; Some Reopenings Meeting Fierce Resistance
Universities face an anxious and meager school year.
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