High School Dropout Rates Increase with Income Inequality
An important element of how income inequality is becoming institutionalized in the US.
Read more...An important element of how income inequality is becoming institutionalized in the US.
Read more...Robots that replace workers are being prototyped in more and more areas, including some highly-paid professions.
Read more...The Wall Street Journal, of all places, describes the dark economic underbelly of Uber and other Orwellianly-named “sharing” services.
Read more...One of the common rhetorical tropes supporters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership have used to sell it is to declaim all prior trade agreements as inferior, relative to this bright, shiny and new deal. Ron Wyden, the Democrat in Congress most responsible for moving TPP through, gave a particularly juicy example of this yesterday.
Read more...TAA, a training program for workers displaced by TPP, would be funded by money diverted from Medicare. It doesn’t work, either.
Read more...The real fight against Fast Track authorization will take place in the House. but the Senate sellouts should be made to feel the wrath of their constituents.
Read more...Housing costs are beyond the reach of many middle class earners. And while that is no news, housing has been the engine of past recoveries. So inflated home prices are part of why the economy will stay mired in low growth.
Read more...Cameron thinks he’s riding a major victory, and he will now be called upon to deliver on his election promises, which just so happen to include a deepening and acceleration of austerity measures.
Read more...Why Bernie Sanders is a real contender, and how his campaign threatens Democratic party apparatchiks.
Read more...Will the TPP, as some critics have charged, pave the way to fascism?
Read more...A new paper shreds the myths that justified the misguided application of austerity and wage-rate reduction policies in Greece and the Eurozone.
Read more...Bernie Sanders’s presidential bid is already creating more of a stir than expected. He is not just running against Clinton. He’s targeting an entire system.
Read more...Ilargi describes why the US is not a democracy, it is not the supreme leader of the world, and the American economy is not in recovery.
Read more...Yes, Virginia, the TPP is at least as bad as its critics say it is.
Read more...Syriza has failed because it does not believe in governing along the lines of what it promised unless it is easy to do so.
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