Service work now dominates the economy. That changes how we build worker power, scholar Annie McClanahan says.
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Impending Strike in Las Vegas Exposes Labor Abuses in Service Sector Nationwide Read Post »
A 2 percent wealth tax is like shaving off a fraction of a spire from a large cathedral, says economist Nancy Folbre.
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Wealth Taxes Will Barely Slow Inequality. So Why Do the Super-Rich Resist Them? Read Post »
A historian discusses past anti-fascist organizations and practices in light of Trump’s effort to criminalize “antifa.”
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From 1920s Italy to 1930s Palestine to 1980s Ska Scenes, Antifa Has Many Faces Read Post »
More workers may lose their hard-won retirement savings now that Trump has pushed them toward crypto and private equity.
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What Trump’s Executive Order on 401(K)s Means for Workers Who Hope to Retire Read Post »
Trump’s policies cater to the 1 percent, but they don’t neatly align with capitalist interests in the traditional sense.
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Trump’s Motives Can Be Opaque. I Asked a Feminist Economist to Bare Them. Read Post »
Both the left and the far right in France see the government budget plan as something of a class war budget.
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Pushing Military Spending and Neoliberal Austerity, French PM Emulates Trump Read Post »
Factoring in tariffs, the lowest 20 percent of income earners may lose $300; the top 1 percent will be $58,000 richer.
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Decades of Neoliberalism Entrenched US Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made It Worse. Read Post »
Economist Michael Ash shares new data on racial disparities in the industry — a major purveyor of environmental racism.
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New Report Documents Racist Rot at the Core of the Petrochemical Industry Read Post »
Trump and tech capitalists like Elon Musk are trying to become kingpins of a largely unregulated financial system.
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Trump Is Setting the US Economy Up for Another Great Financial Crisis Read Post »
Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies must be tied to new subsidies that raise living standards for working and poor people.
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A Fraction of What We Pay in Fossil Fuel Subsidies Could Fund a Just Transition Read Post »
The Trump administration’s alliance with the racist political party signals the rise of a far right international.
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Trump Defends Far Right AfD Party After German Intelligence Calls It “Extremist” Read Post »
Progressive economist Gerald Epstein says global capitalists may no longer see the US as a “safe haven” under Trump.
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What Does Trump’s Economic Chaos Mean for the Global Financial System? Read Post »
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