Housing, Not Handcuffs
US policy towards the homeless becomes ever more mean-spirited, apparently to justify not dealing with the problem of unaffordable housing.
Read more...US policy towards the homeless becomes ever more mean-spirited, apparently to justify not dealing with the problem of unaffordable housing.
Read more...An important new paper contradicts Democratic pundits, showing that most workers lost in real wage terms under Biden
Read more...New desperate ideas to fix chronic US trade imbalances, like capital controls, are getting a hearing.
Read more...More on the further erosion of ownership and property rights via required renting.
Read more...Apple’s dystopian ode to rentierism.
Read more...The economic components that have served as the dehumanizing foundation to Israel’s current “plausible” genocide share many similarities with poor Americans and migrant laborers who are treated as disposable in the US.
Read more...For millions of new parents, medical debt is now as much a hallmark of having children as long nights and dirty diapers.
Read more...Experts describe how requiring U.S. seniors to work in their old age often threatens their health and well-being.
Read more...A hard look at the use of the notion of populism in recent political discourse, starting with the curious lack of self-professed populists.
Read more...“It’s time to tax the billionaires,” economist Gabriel Zucman argues in a new analysis.
Read more...Why a wealth tax is not all it is cracked up to be, but a well-designed income tax can do a fine job of curtailing wealth disparity.
Read more...A theory of crime, which while it has some explanatory power, weirdly omits white collar crime.
Read more...Governments across the West are enacting more draconian measures to silence all criticism and are increasingly asking citizens to inform on one another.
Read more...Governors in the region are “truly astonished that workers might not trust their corporate overlords with their working conditions, pay, health, and retirement,” said one critic.
Read more...Oh noes! Populism is gaining ground! A report on A/B testing of messaging in Italy to defang it.
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