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Austerity
Public Education Fights for Its Life
Max Eternity: Austerity measures are eroding America's public school system.
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Why This Is the Worst Recovery on Record
Robert Reich: Both sides of the modern debate have neglected the scourge of widening inequality.
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Opposition Grows Fierce to Austerity Cuts in Portland
Like many US cities since the onset of the recession, Portland has faced years of budget cuts costing jobs.
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In Obama’s Budget, Poverty Initiatives Face an Uphill Battle
There are new and even historic anti-poverty proposals in this budget. But the better they are, the more they fall into the hard to get category.
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Kitchen Sink Socialism
We don't need gay marriage to ‘ruin’ one man, one woman, one mortgage relationships; austerity is doing that just fine, says Andrew Fogle.
The Question of Socialism (and Beyond!) Is About to Open Up in These United States
The two most looked-up words in 2012 were ‘socialism’ and ‘capitalism’.
Obama Fully Embraces Austerity With Cuts to Social Security and Medicare
Bob Pollin: Costs of Social Security and Medicare have nothing to do with rise in fiscal deficit.
Winner Takes All: The Super-Priority Status of Derivatives
In a big derivatives bust, there may be no collateral left for the creditors who are next in line.
Beyond Deficit Scare-Mongering
Ellen Frank: Conservatives' real aim in their fiscal brinkmanship is to gut Social Security and Medicare.
Austerity Can Kill You – Literally
A major new study published in The Lancet makes clear that austerity policies adopted in the European south have produced health care crises.