Tim Libretti
LATEST ARTICLES BY Tim Libretti
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Opinion
The “skills gap” myth: What’s really driving down wages?
December 31, 2015There is an illusion that American workers' economic woes are attributable to their own lack of appropriate skills rather than to concerted efforts on the part of capital to disempower workers.
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Revisiting Baltimore and changing the “racial conversation”
December 31, 2015Does "Black lives matter" ask for something from the dominant culture that would require economic loss or will it mean gains and not losses, morally and economically, for most Americans?
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Straight outta everywhere: Learning to listen in the “racial conversation”
December 29, 2015The white dominant culture is more interested in critiquing the rap music rather than critiquing the conditions to which the music bears witness.
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Racist ideology moves more than just people who fly Confederate flags
November 10, 2015There is an idea "that racism lives in the heart of particularly evil individuals, as opposed to the heart of a democratic society."
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What kind of “healthy” economy is healthy for working people?
September 3, 2015Many proposals to prop up or restore the health of our current economic system are at odds with improving the standard of living for workers in the U.S.
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The wealth gap and its threat to democracy
January 5, 2015How we organize our economy and distribute and allocate resources can either facilitate or undermine a democratic socio-political culture.
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Wanted: an economy that puts people first
November 12, 2014I have a confession to make. In the series of articles I have supposedly been writing about income inequality, I have really been writing about something else: need.
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Honey Butter Fried Chicken and redistribution of wealth
October 21, 2014While the capitalist class might be digging their own graves, the rest of us need to worry that they will be digging our graves too.
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