Thomas Frank discuss how Democrats try to have it both ways, wrapping themselves in FDR’s good name while dissing pretty much everything he stood for.
Read more...Another look at deaths of despair confirms the danger of job loss and even too-early retirement.
Read more...How workers in Mexico are now essential—to U.S. corporations.
Read more...Ruminations on the nature of work and employment.
Read more...Colleges and universities need to be saved, not only from financial ruin, but also, all too often, from themselves.
Read more...Republicans intend to shoot themselves and the economy in the head out of ideological rigidity by killing the unemployment supplement.
Read more...How the cornacrisis has led to investigations of garment industry supply chains to unearth worker exploitation and shady contractors.
Read more...The Fed knows it it is up to no good as far as ordinary citizens are concerned, witness its propaganda efforts.
Read more...Putting some ugly Covid-19 facts together.
Read more...Workers, and above all black workers, lost out when unions came under attack and corporate profiteering and short-termism became the norm.
Read more...A 1938 economic manifesto makes modern day schemes look inadequate and unimaginative.
Read more...Why cancel culture gets the elites off the inequality hook.
Read more...Covid-19 bankrupties show how the disease is draining the economy.
Read more...Biden acts like the heartless pol he is. He can’t keep up the pretense if someone wants to get between him and insurer profits.
Read more...The latest unemployment data calls into question the notion that anything more than a techical recovery is underway.
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