Latest Economy

• Smithberger: Never the Pentagon

  How The Military-Industrial Complex Gets Away With Murder in Contract After Contract
• People's Campaign: The PPC Demands National Debate on Poverty

  When 250,000 people die every year from poverty, it is time for the presidential candidates to make good on the promises they made during the Poor People’s Campaign Moral Action Congress in June 2019 to push for a debate on poverty
• Koshgarian: Yes, We Can Cut the Pentagon to Pay for Medicare for All

  The truth is that the reality of Medicare for All could actually save money compared to the current system, if deeper cost savings could be achieved
• Anderson: California Debate Over CEO Pay Tax Foreshadows Federal Fight

  Abigail Disney testified in support of a California state senate bill to tax large CEO-worker pay gaps before the committee voted to advance the proposal
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  Stiglitz: The Truth About the Trump Economy

  It is becoming conventional wisdom that US President Donald Trump will be tough to beat in November because he has been good for the American economy. Nothing could be further from the truth
• Collins: People Want a Wealth Tax

  Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are practically the only major politicians supporting a wealth tax to reduce inequality and fund government programs, even though polling shows nearly two-thirds of Americans support it
• Barber: We Can’t Be Silent Anymore

  As the final Democratic debate ahead of the Iowa caucuses took place Tuesday night in Des Moines, Iowa, more than 100 protesters gathered outside the debate venue at Drake University to demand a televised presidential debate on poverty
• Surin: Politics and Business in Seattle

  The culture of deception and duplicity fostered in Boeing also arose in a political context that made lax oversight the norm
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  Chomsky: America Has Built a Global Dystopia

  Interview on the incredible global failure to address the climate crisis, as well as the nuclear arms race, which are both leading humanity to a precipice that may be impossible to walk away from
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  Prashad: What Passes for Reality Is Not Worth Respecting

  Beneath the storm and stress of the shifts in the balance of power lie myriad struggles
• Adkin: The Limits of Capitalism

  The UN predicts that there will be 200 million climate refugees by 2050
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  Sturgis: Will Northrop Grumman get its long-planned war with Iran?

  Amount Northrop Grumman's political action committees contributed to federal campaigns and committees from 2000 to date, according to OpenSecrets.org: almost $24 million
• Conley: ‘See? Not Radical’

  New Poll Shows Nearly Two-Thirds of Americans Support a Wealth Tax to Fund Universal Programs
• Rosen: Despair in America

  The Unspoken Issue of the 2020 Election
• Licata: This Year The Minimum Wage Can be Raised In The Majority Of States

  Guaranteed higher wages was a result of citizens working in their communities to make local governments accountable to them
• Ramsay: Follow the dark money…

  The UK’s unwritten constitution protects the world’s financial crooks and tax dodgers. Test your ability to expose them with our quiz
• Braun: We need a New Deal for housing

  Where workers with high school educations once had a path to a first — and even a second — home, an advanced degree hasn’t done the same for me. I’m a college professor, yet the fear of being homeless haunts me
• Anderson: The Threat of War Inflates Stock Holdings of Military Contractor CEOs

  As long as the top executives of our privatized war economy can reap unlimited rewards, the profit motive for war in Iran — or anywhere — will persist
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  Harris: Spray Now, Ask Questions Later

  Over the course of time industrial capitalism has exposed humans to leaded gasoline, asbestos, cigarettes, DDT, smog, toxic chemicals in water and food, and fossil fuel pollution that now threatens to denigrate the climate to the point of no return
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  Fang: TV Pundits Praising Assassination Neglect to Disclose Ties to Arms Industry

  Many of the pundits who appeared on national television or were quoted in major publications to praise the president’s actions have undisclosed ties to the defense industry — the only domestic industry that stands to gain from increased violence