Latest Economy

• Driver: How the Rich Hide Their Wealth: Tax havens and Capital Flight

  The power and wealth of the biggest banks and financial institutions is one of the most under-reported issues in society
• Gordon: Nurses in the Real World of For-Profit Medicine

  All over the country nurses are fighting to make sure hospital staff get needed personal protective equipment and safe staffing
• Johnson: Sanders Rejects Top Dems’ Push for a Big Tax Break for the Rich

  "You can't be on the side of the wealthy and the powerful if you're going to really fight for working families."
• Lewis: How Capitalism Drives Cancel Culture

  Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact
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  Cunningham-Cook: Judge Who Struck Down Eviction Moratorium Lives in Nearly $3 Million Home

  Dabney Friedrich’s 6,900-square-foot house boasts cathedral ceilings and two kitchens
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  Rasmus: Inflation Myths & the US Economic Rebound 2021

  Republicans, conservatives, and business interests are using the fact of recent rising prices to attack legislative proposals to increase government spending
• Goldberg: Eviction crisis looms as CDC moratorium hangs in the balance

  It is time to raise and expand the fight for housing as a human right
• Bhasin: Mismanagement of the COVID-19 Crisis Increases Food Insecurity in India and Brazil

  With leaders in both countries refusing to accept the urgency of the situation before them, marginalized populations already struggling are having to fight a dual fight: against the virus and against hunger
• Stancil: If You Want to Keep Workers, Pay Living Wages

  “They will spend millions of dollars to take $300 a [week] away from you and your family, to force you to work for them for pennies."
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  Chomsky: Big Pharma Cares More About Profiting From COVID Than Human Survival

  Unless vaccines go to the Global South, the virus is going to mutate. It’s already happening, you get more lethal strains
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  Schwarz: The Business Class Has Been Fearmongering About Worker Shortages for Centuries

  Our so-called staffing crisis hearkens back to the colonial era
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  Nolan: Get Rid of No-Strike Clauses and Stop Begging

  We don’t need to keep taking a dollar today and then eating shit for the next three years. Instead, let’s make the boss treat us nice every day
• Astore: Endless War Is A Feature of Our National Programming

  On Pulling the Plug on the War Machine
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  Adler: It’s good Biden is suspending vaccine patents, but system needs overhaul

  US tax dollars helped create the Moderna vaccine – and 59% of Americans say Moderna share its vaccine technology with manufacturers worldwide
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  Klein: A Climate Dystopia in Northern California

  California’s divided and fire-scarred cities, reeling from climate disasters, need a Green New Deal
• Kelly: Inside America’s Rural Housing Crisis

  Across Wisconsin, low-income people are struggling to find quality, affordable housing
• Driver: Global Casinos: Financial Markets are a Fraudsters Paradise

  Derivatives trading and currency trading are on such a huge scale that they can destabilize whole countries
• Walker: Biden Admin Supports Ending Vaccine Patents

  AOC Says “Let’s Do Insulin Next.”
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  Rasmus: US GDP 1st Quarter 2021: Recovery or Just Another Rebound

  The average historical GDP growth rate in recent decades has been around 1.8% to 2.2%. So the current 1.6% is not even average
• Prabhala: “Monumental Moment”

  U.S. Backs Waiving COVID Vaccine Patent Rights After Months of Blocking Talks