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Senators Brown, Sessions, Schumer, Graham, Stabenow, Burr, Collins and Casey Introduce New China Currency Bill
Eight senators have introduced the Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Act.
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When It Comes to Business Profits, It’s the Plutonomy versus the Realonomy — and the Plutonomy is Winning
As average citizens suffer, big corporations around the world watch their sales go continue to rise.
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Jobs and Justice: Raising the Floor on Workers Rights and Wages in Haiti
Beverly Bell takes a look at the economics behind third world sweatshops to propose how alternative pathways can be found.
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Another Bridge Falls – Fixing Infrastructure Fixes Jobs and Deficits
Republicans say fixing our infrastructure is just u201cmore government spending.u201d
Economic Update: A Journalist’s Perspective
Updates on changing US retirement ages, Pope Francis's anti-capitalism, inequality inside countries, unionists march in Rome.
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Why Inequality Is a Problem and Growth a Red Herring
Salvatore Babones: To the inequality and growth debate, I say - who cares!
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America’s Killer Jobs
Every year, thousands of American workers die on the job, and millions are injured due to lax worker safety laws and weak enforcement of those that do exist.
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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.
From Bad Jobs to Good Jobs
What happened to the good jobs? And what does it take to get them back?
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Another Government Is Necessary: The People Can Rule Better Than the Elites
On Earth Day, a new alternative government, the Green Shadow Cabinet, was announced. Its over 80 members are leaders in their fields, from medicine to art to activism, and …