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Economy
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Austerity Is Dead; Stop Pushing It, Drop the Chained CPI and Increase Social Security
The ‘savings’ figures thrown around in Washington are not real ... but the pain these cuts will cause is very, very real.
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Could We Redirect Tax Subsidies to Pay for Free College?
Want a way to pay for free higher education? Take a look at all the tax breaks that ease the burden of student debt.
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Despite Sequester, High-Level Federal Executives Slated to Get Bonuses
The Senior Executive Service received more than $340 million in bonuses from 2008 through 2011.
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Discipline and Punish: The New Unemployment “Reform“
The Clinton-era arguments used to end welfare have been turned on the unemployed twenty years later.
Interview on Cyprus Crisis: European Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Financial Capitalism
In this discussion, two scholars show that ‘cosmopolitanism’ goes farther back than early modernity and unveil an ideal far different from neoliberal assumptions that cosmopolitanism is simply mobility and …
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When Basic Economic Theory Is Ignored, Disaster Will Follow
Paul Krugman: The clean little secret of the global economic crisis is that standard economic theory actually performed pretty well.
Systemic Malfunctioning of the Labor and Financial Markets
Dr. Heiner Flassbeck: Government has to step in and correct the imbalances of low wages and unregulated financial markets or a deeper recession and crisis is inevitable.
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America’s Education Spring: A Growing Revolt Against “Reform” Mandates
Resistance to top-down education mandates is building.
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Coming Corporate Control of Medicine Will Throw Patients Under the Bus
Corporate control over medicine will make the horrors falsely attributed to socialized medicine look pale.
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Lift The Millstone of Student Debt That’s Slowing The Economy
Do you think that student loan debt is only a problem for college students and perhaps their parents? Think again.