Latest Economy

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  Rasmus: On Those Questionable Jobs Numbers….Again!

  It’s a statistical manipulation–based on a series of complex assumptions and even more complex mathematical formula adjustments of the raw jobs data–that gets reported monthly as the job numbers
• Levitz: Jobs, Jobs Everywhere, But Most of Them Kind of Suck

  Gallup asked 6,600 U.S. workers what they saw as the defining characteristics of a “good” job, then used their answers to construct a “job-quality index.” As measured by the index only 40 percent of Americans currently have “good” jobs
• Haiphong: This Holiday Season, American Workers Have Little to Celebrate

  At this moment, the neoliberal race to the bottom has rendered most workers too fearful, disorganized, and full of self-blame to fight back
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  Cole: Green Steel

  How to get Low-Carbon Electric Cars and Buildings
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  Rasmus: Trump vs. Democracy

  The correlation between the rise and expansion of Neoliberalism and the decline of democracy in the US is irrefutable
• Lord: The U-Turn that Turned America Staggeringly Unequal

  For decades in the mid 20th century, our nation’s grandest private fortunes were becoming less pronounced. And then . . .
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  Baker: NAFTA Was About Redistributing Upward

  A major feature of NAFTA was the requirement that Mexico strengthen and lengthen its patent and copyright protections. These barriers are 180 degrees at odds with expanding trade and removing barriers
• Brown: Amazon’s On-Site Emergency Care Endangers Workers

  Ten EMTs said their bosses pressured them to send injured employees back to the warehouse floor
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  Cohen: Pelosi Pushes the House to Pass USMCA

  But Neglects a Bill With Broad Support to Strengthen Unions
• Higgins: ‘An Unjust Society Is Far Costlier’

  AOC Says Beware the Deficit Scolds Who Only Complain About Paying for Stuff When It Benefits People
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  Stiglitz: It’s time to retire metrics like GDP

  The way we assess economic performance and social progress is fundamentally wrong, and the climate crisis has brought these concerns to the fore
• Evans: Ruthless Quotas at Amazon Are Maiming Employees

  This holiday season, Amazon will move millions of packages at dizzying speed. Internal injury reports suggest all that convenience is coming at the expense of worker safety
• Anderson: Some CEOs earn 1,000 times more than their workers. Here’s how to stop that

  Some 78% of US workers feel CEOs are overpaid compared to their employees, one poll found last year. It may be even worse than they think
• Dehlendorf: New Forms of Worker Organization

  To rebalance our democracy and economy, a real system of economic checks and balances must exist to ensure that working people have power in their workplaces
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  Harris: No Billionaires, No Fascists, No Warmongers To the Socialist Future

  There’s probably no bigger sin in American politics than to imagine a world without war, inequality, and capitalism
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  Harris: No Billionaires, No Fascists, No Warmongers

  To the Socialist Future
• Lord: Health Care and ‘Head Taxes’: An Unhealthy Combination

  We need to fix the health care system that has Joe Six-Pack paying the same basic tax as Jeff Bezos
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  Pizzigati: Putting the Brakes on Corporate America’s Inequality Engine

  Landmark new legislation before Congress links corporate taxes to the CEO-worker pay divide
• Koshgarian: Medicare for All, or Endless War?

  We could easily fund health care for all by ending military boondoggles and fruitless wars. Here’s how.
• Kramer: A 12-Step Program to Opioid Justice

  Finding Peace Amid the New Opium Wars