Rethinking Social Progress in the 21st Century
A new report examines the path to global social progress. Unfortunately, there are no easy answers.
Read more...A new report examines the path to global social progress. Unfortunately, there are no easy answers.
Read more...Progressives are waking up to the fact that most unions are not on their side.
Read more...Another attack on union funding.
Read more...Debunking American exceptionalism on a pet obsession: the ability to get rich.
Read more...Inequality creates the social and political divisions that isolate us from each other.
Read more...Government of Puerto Rico presents report to Congress acknowledging 1427 Hurricane Maria details– more than twenty times the previous estimate it had given. Meanwhile, prospects for meaningful debt relief remain slight.
Read more...The city of Baltimore is poised to denounce the privatization fairy and reject privatization of its water and sewage system.
Read more...Labour’s economists show their Third Way colors and advocate austerity-generating policy rules that might as well have been penned by former Treasury Secretary, later Citigroup vice chairman Bob Rubin.
Read more...Up to half of college students report that they were either not getting enough to eat or were worried about it.
Read more...How the evolution of the rise in inequality in the US has dominated and distorted economists’ and pundits’ commentary; data show that some pet generalizations don’t hold up.
Read more...Yves here. Lambert sent me a copy of the underlying paper on Brexit voting patterns a week ago, suggesting I write it up. I sat on it due to focusing on seemingly more pressing stories, plus being behind on administrativa due to travel. I’ve embedded the article at the end of this post. This finding […]
Read more...Michael Hudson explains how we’re still in the crisis that started in 2007-2008.
Read more...In the Tax Justice Network’s July 2018 Taxcast, Vickie Cann and John Christensen examine a proposal for a firewall to protect EU citizens from the Big Four accountancy firms and the tax avoidance lobby, as well as look at a new report from the Corporate Europe Observatory.
Read more...Engelhardt’s birthday post reflects on how failings are catching up with us, individually and collectively.
Read more...The middle class has taken a big hit. Is it going to mobilize?
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