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Economy
Tax Games and Redistributing Income Upward
Dean Baker on some of the latest regressive tax proposals.
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Unemployment Edges Up to 7.9 Percent as Economy Adds 157,000 Jobs
Fiscal cliff concerns appear to have no impact whatsoever on hiring.
Class Is a Five-Letter Dirty Word: The Lack of Class Consciousness in an Era of Record Inequality
The days of Horatio Alger stories promising rags to riches are over - if they ever existed to begin with.
Will Exaggerated Deficit Talks Lead to an “Obama Recession?” We Must Still Ask These Questions
The Washington consensus on economic policy has been used to inflict neoliberalism.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama Administration Considers Next Move on NLRB Appointment
Women are still struggling to find equality in the workplace; a senior Obama administration official tasked with closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, has been reassigned from his …
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Beyond the Chart: Sure, Health Care Deduction Is Huge, but What’s the Return?
Tax expert Ellen Dannin provides an example of how we can look at employer-provided health insurance.
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What’s Wrong with the “Right to Work”?
Who really benefits from
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Detroit MLK Day for Justice: Of Dreams and Nightmares
n Detroit, on MLK Day, hundreds gathered to rally and protest against the persistent nightmares of inequality in urban cities nationwide.
Economic Update: Beyond Austerity to Economic Democracy
Updates on global capital's devastating moves and on the FED's huge recent expansion of the money supply. Interview with Prof. Jan Rehmann: a Gramscian analysis of the Occupy movement.
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The Myth of Living Beyond Our Means
The truth is most Americans have not been living beyond their means.