Latest Economy

• Moore: North American Companies Pay Off Latin American Police to Harass Critics

  In countries like Peru, extractive industries contract police to suppress Indigenous protesters and detain international observers — including me
• Levin: ‘Work or go to jail’

  How LA courts force thousands to do unpaid labor
• Lerner: How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling Efforts

  Audio from a meeting of recycling leaders obtained reveals how the soda giant’s “green” philanthropy helped squelch what could have been an important tool in fighting the plastic crisis
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  Pizzigati: Can an Economic Stat Help Narrow Our Grand Economic Divide?

  Egalitarian-minded economists are pushing for a ‘GDP 2.0’ — and getting some lawmaker help
• Kilian: How Left-Wing Parties Abandoned Working Class Voters

  A new book argues that parties across the spectrum have been catering to elites
• Koshgarian: Fund ‘Medicare for All’ by Slashing the Military

  We’ve identified more than $300 billion in annual military savings alone that we could better invest in priorities like Medicare for All
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  Bond: Bretton Woods Institutions’ neoliberal over-reach leaves global governance in the gutter

  The 75th anniversary is a good time to ask whether such out-dated ideologies and their enforcers deserve to be retired, not (as the right-wing populist protectionists argue) so as to close the door on global governance, but to open it much wider in a way that serves people and planet, not multinational corporate profits
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  Prashad: The IMF Is Utterly Indifferent to the Pain It’s Causing

  No one within the IMF meeting will raise the question of democracy, both in terms of the IMF’s own functioning and in terms of the IMF’s relationship with sovereign countries around the world
• Salgado: Moreno’s Government Sacrifices Poor to Satisfy IMF

  The economic policies implemented by the government of Lenin Moreno are in perfect conformity with the IMF’s neoliberal recipe
• Perez: Documents Reveal Hospital Industry Leading Fight Against Medicare for All

  Investor-owned hospitals are leading the fight against the creation of a comprehensive, universal health care system, according to corporate filings reviewed by MapLight
• Vigo: The New Workers’ Revolution is Afoot

  It is clear that a workers’ revolution is on the horizon and what we are learning from the recent actions in California and Pittsburgh that workers of the world really do need to unite. And now
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  Rasmus: US-China Mini-Trade Deal

  Trump Takes the Money and Runs
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  Pizzigati: Have Researchers Just Hit an Inequality Trifecta?

  Three new sets of stats help us understand why America’s 400 richest have never been richer
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  Monbiot: Oil Strike

  The oil companies have successfully transferred blame for their actions to us. It is time to fight back
• Dolan: AOC’s Plan to Eradicate Poverty Should Be Headline News

  While Trump's potential impeachment dominates news feeds, let's not lose sight of the deep policy changes needed to make this country work for all of us
• Appelbaum: How Private Equity Makes You Sicker

  Investment firms have created consolidated hospital empires across America, leading to closures, higher prices, and suffering
• North: How LGBTQ rights cases before Supreme Court affect all Americans

  If the Trump administration gets its way, the court could destroy sex discrimination law as we know it
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  Pizzigati: The Key to Distributing Wealth More Equitably

  We only build — and sustain — more equal societies when we confront the economic dynamics that generate inequality in the first place
• Olney: New California Regulations Strengthen Workers in Ride Share Industry

  For several decades, corporations have sought to undermine labor rights by turning more employees into “independent” workers, foregoing any responsibility for paying Social Security, unemployment compensation, workers compensation or other benefits like vacation and sick time
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  Wittner: Why are Americans so confused about the meaning of “Democratic Socialism”?

  Why does socialism―even something as innocuously labeled as democratic socialism―have this stigma?