Austerity

Robert Pollin proposes a post-austerity policy agenda that lays out a clear path to job creation and lowering public debt - while advancing greater equality.

Micah Uetricht's ‘Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity’ relates the stirring transformation of the Chicago Teachers Union into a democratically organized force for social justice.

The austerity mania that plagued our political system for four years is finally subsiding.

In Ukraine, the US deep state and its accomplices promote civil warfare and concentrate wealth to channel it to London, New York and other financial centers.

There are two debates underway about President Obama's upcoming budget: One involves the President's proclamation that this budget will signal the “end of austerity,” while the other involves the …

Austerity policies are dangerous because they don't achieve their purported goals and harm those with the least political power, political economist and author Mark Blyth tells Truthout.

The IMF's austerity plan hasn't worked. Greece's possible recovery is down to a construction program boosting the economy.

Contrary to the official story, Greece's economy is not recovering, and the continuation of the Troika's neoliberal austerity medicine assure the country a bleak economic and social future.

If there are any illusions, it's among the liberals who expect dramatic change from a de Blasio administration while they tell the left and workers to be quiet.

This week we want to highlight some of the issues that are spurring youth to get active in their communities and what they are doing about them.