Robots for Economic Development
Data on Indonesian manufacturing firms shows a positive impact on employment of adopting robots.
Read more...Category Archives: The destruction of the middle class
Sanders Welcomes End of Major League Lockout But Slams ‘Baseball Oligarchs’
Sanders calls out baseball oligarchs for major league lockout.
Read more...Calls Mount to Cancel Student Debt as Biden Weighs Longer Payment Pause
Despite polling showing student loan cancellation to be popular, even among those who don’t hold such debt themselves, Biden is unlikely to cancel all student debt outright.
Read more...There’s No Sugarcoating Hershey’s Abuse of Workers and Union-Busting Tactics
Hershey is not nice.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Mystified By Public’s Sour Mood Despite “Booming” Economy
Americans are not happy despite a not at all bad economy leaving most with higher savings and pay than pre-Covid.
Read more...Shareholder Activism: Icahn Targets McDonald’s Pig Pens
Carl Icahn seeks to force McDonald’s 2012 pledge to cease to use gestation crate to confine pregnant pigs within a decade.
Read more...How Corporations Use Public School Workforce ‘Pipelines’ to Harvest Students’ Data and Train Narrowly Skilled, Exploitable Staff
A new corporate scheme: hijack vocational programs to meet narrow, immediate needs, leaving students with short shelf-life skills.
Read more...New Data: Omicron BA.2 More Contagious and Severe than BA.1, Yet Officials Committed to Relaxing Protections
[Jaws theme song] BA.2 is coming….Maybe it won’t be that terrible, but you might get out of the water.
Read more...On-Time Rent Payments Sag Amid Massive Spike in Rents
Rents are up a lot in most places in the US of any consequence. Not all tenants are keeping pace.
Read more...Resource Limits to American Capitalism & The Predator State Today
James K. Galbraith discusses the shift of the US from industrialism to his so-called predator state: finance-led, military-centered corporatism
Read more...The 50 Biggest US Donors Gave or Pledged Nearly $28 Billion in 2021 – Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates Account for $15 Billion of That Total
No, you are not paranoid if you worry about the outsized influence of the Gates Foundation.
Read more...New Report: Monetary Policy Without Interest Rate Hikes
A fresh report lead authored by Nathan Tankus takes on orthodoxy monetary policy ideas and provides Modern Monetary Theory solutions.
Read more...Quelle Surprise! Covid Burden Falling Hardest on Low Income Workers…But Don’t Expect Any Help
Don’t get us wrong. We really like EPI. But a new piece on Covid’s impact on low income workers has good analysis and out of date proposals.
Read more...Why Young Workers Are Driving a Wave of Unionization
The young are again on the forefront of change, now by challenging neoliberal atomization and indoctrination by forming unions.
Read more...Inflation Paranoia Threatens Recovery
Inflation hawks are winning. A ‘beggar thyself’ race to raise interest rates has begun. But this response slows economic growth.
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