Universal Basic Income and Minimum Wages: Progressive or Regressive?
How plans for a universal basic income differ, and what that means in terms of probable results.
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Want a More Equal Society? Universal Basic Income Might Not Be the Policy You Are Looking For
Why a Universal Basic Income won’t produce the benefits its boosters claim it will.
Read more...The Federal Job Guarantee Is Not Just “Better” Than a Universal Basic Income. It’s the Only Reasonable Option. Universal Basic Income Is Sinister
Why a federal job guarantee is sound policy and a universal basic income isn’t.
Read more...Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity
Why American work norms are largely counterproductive.
Read more...Analysing Wealth Inequality: A Conceptual Reflection
Why the way economists think about wealth is too narrow, and how to start to remedy that.
Read more...5 Policies That Could Improve Housing for the Renting Generation
Housing has become a more divisive issue than ever, as rising real estate costs and less job stability make buying a house both harder and more fraught. Renters need better protections, but how to get there?
Read more...Gaius Publius: How the Democrats Could, and Probably Will, Blow 2020
How the Democrats are conspiring to snatch defeat from the jaws of a 2020 victory.
Read more...Students as Teachers: Facing the World Adults Are Wrecking
Belle Chesler, a teacher, writes about what students already know, and what they are contributing, in the fight for social change in a broken America.
Read more...US Opioid Prescriptions Fall at Record Rate
Some good news on the opioid front is not good enough.
Read more...Another Big Retailer Gets Liquidated
Retailers in bankruptcy are notoriously hard to restructure.
Read more...Why Americans’ Hatred of Taxes Is Fake News
Newspapers consistently underplay wide public support for higher taxes on businesses and the wealthy.
Read more...Oklahoma’s Revolution Didn’t End with Teacher Strikes—It’s Going Much Further
Oklahomans are sick and tired of politics as usual—the good ’ol boy system, they say, must end.
Read more...Three More Reasons for Wealth-Deprived Americans to Take to the Streets
Some telling facts on wealth inequality.
Read more...The Corporate Plan to Groom U.S. Kids for Servitude by Wiping Out Public Schools
Schools are becoming a two-tier affair, with those for the non-affluent preparing them for “a life that is more circumscribed, less vibrant, and, quite literally, shorter, than what past generations have known.”
Read more...Opioid Lawsuits: DoJ Seeks to Participate in Settlement Talks
Federal District Judge Dan Polster pushes parties to the litigation and others concerned to craft a comprehensive settlement to the opioid crisis; attorney general Jeff Sessions’ DoJ seems more interested in fence sitting that rolling up its sleeves.
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