Recession
Banks getting away with same crimes that crashed the economy in 2008
April 19, 2019Between 2009 and 2012, African Americans lost just under $200 billion in wealth. It's happening again.
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Trump recalls 50,000 workers without pay; shutdown costs hit $1 billion a week
January 16, 2019The cost is so high that now even Trump’s own top economist admits it could end U.S. economic growth and send the nation into recession.
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‘Skeleton Crew’: Detroit workers’ jobs, homes, pensions, and lives on the line
June 18, 2018This play enacts the hollowing-out of American industry in the Great Recession years that began late in George W. Bush’s presidency.
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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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Economist: Guaranteed living-wage jobs best way to address inequality
August 19, 2016Noted African-American economics professor Darrick Hamilton is proposing federally-guaranteed jobs, at living wages, for everyone.
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