Economics
Not one penny for billionaires, says coalition against GOP tax cuts
November 2, 2017Eighty percent of the tax cuts in the Republican plan would go to the richest 1 percent of the country.
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International trade unionists hunt solutions for downsides of “free trade”
November 1, 2017“Free trade has been accompanied by economic and social chaos,” says Noureddine Taboubi, a union leader from Tunisia.
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Karl Marx makes a comeback
September 14, 2017Over the last decade, Marx has also made a comeback as a serious intellectual figure. In the fall of 2008, as the global financial crisis was starting to be felt and understood, The Guardian reported on...
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Party like it’s 1999: Incomes finally break pre-millennium peak
September 13, 2017In a stark reminder of the damage done by the Great Recession, the median American household only last year finally earned more than it did in 1999.
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61 percent of Americans give thumbs-up to unions
September 11, 2017The number of people who view unions favorably is on the rise, but so is the number of people who think the labor movement will become weaker.
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