capitalism

The Fed’s intentional recession: Higher interest rates mean fewer jobs, smaller paychecks

October 5, 2022 By C.J. Atkins

The Federal Reserve Bank is the capitalist class’s most powerful weapon.

Thanks to public programs, 20 million fewer Americans were poor in 2021

September 28, 2022 By Shailly Gupta Barnes

If poor people vote in the midterms like they did in 2020, we could make another leap towards ending the madness of widespread poverty in the midst of plenty.

Press coverage of declining U.S. life expectancy evades the truth about class

September 28, 2022 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

COVID and racism combine to drag down the number of years Americans live, but what about economic class?

Working-class tribune Barbara Ehrenreich exposed inequality and capitalism’s positive thinking cult

September 23, 2022 By Sonali Kolhatkar

The late Nickel and Dimed author also laid bare the “positive thinking” industry that put a smiley face on inequality.

Prison labor helped build U.S. capitalists’ business empires

September 23, 2022 By Margie Mason And Robin McDowell

Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War—a racist system known as convict leasing.