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An article series by
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From the Dollars & Sense blog:

Gerald Epstein: Krugman Crosses the Line | April 9, 2016
Sanders Is Fighting to Raise the Wages of Most Black and Latino Workers | March 24, 2016
Thomas Palley: Bernie Slanders | March 21, 2016
Venezuela: Dismantling a Weapon of Mass Destruction | March 18, 2016
Our March/April 2016 Issue Is Out! | March 10, 2016
The Latest Links on Friedman/Sanders, Romers, etc. | March 8, 2016

Recent posts»

Sanders’ Health Care Revolution

Gerald Friedman | April 1

Sanders’ plan would reduce costs (especially for low- and middle-income families), expand coverage, and improve access. | Read more »
Not Just for Future Generations

AN INTERVIEW WITH JAMES BOYCE | March 17

How climate policy can benefit most people in the here and now. | Read more »
No Country for Old People

David Bacon | March 10

Is there a human right to age in dignity? Some countries think so. Unfortunately, the United States isn’t one of them. | Read more »
The Clinton and Sanders Plans
to Rein In Wall Street

John Miller | March 1

How do they differ, and what should we think of them? | Read more »
Why Higher Ed Can’t Wait

Biola Jeje and Belinda Rodriguez | February 20

Students are rising up to demand free higher education. | Read more »
What Would Sanders Do? Pt. 2

Gerald Friedman | February 1

How Bernie Sanders’s policies would affect wages, poverty, and inequality. | Read more »
Is a $15 Minimum Wage
Economically Feasible?

Jeannette Wicks-Lim | January 21

Activism to raise the wage is pushing the envelope. But can the minimum wage be raised so high without costing jobs or hurting businesses? | Read more »
The Origins and Crisis of Neoliberalism

David Kotz | January 8

Part One: A Great Fall

Part Two: All the King’s Horses
Fenced Off from Reality

John Miller | December 8

Trump’s claims about immigration economics are without merit. | Read more »
What Would Sanders Do?

Gerald Friedman | November 17

The Dynamic Effects of Seven Sanders Initiatives Read more »

Special to the Web:

Rosa Luxemburg and the Growth of the Labor Movement

Gerald Friedman | January 15, 2016

On the 97th anniversary of her death, an account of the importance of Luxemburg’s ideas for labor organizing. | Read more »
Debt and Development

Alejandro Reuss | December 4, 2015

If debt is a “trap” for developing countries, is there any way around it? | Read more »

Thirty Years of Farm Aid

CAROLYN MUGAR, RHONDA PERRY, ROGER ALLISON, AND DAVID SENTER | July 14, 2015

Reflections on Farm Aid by insiders as the organization supporting family farms celebrates its 30th anniversary. | Read more »
How a Progressive Tax System Made Detroit a Powerhouse (and Could Again)

Mason Gaffney and Polly Cleveland | August 9, 2013

During the city’s heyday from the 1890s through the 1940s, mayors and other civic leaders embraced the principles espoused by American economist Henry George, raising revenue through property taxes, rather than income or sales taxes. Read more »
Banking on the Public
Abby Scher | June 25, 2013

Going Postal, North Dakota, and other finance alternatives: A report-back from Public Banking 2013: Funding the New Economy. Read more »
Taxing Cash Hoarders
Alejandro Reuss | June 28, 2013

Nonfinancial corporations are stockpiling enormous sums of cash. A tax on this idle cash that would light a fire under corporations to invest it now. Read more »

Jobs, Deficits, and the Misguided Squabble over the Debt Ceiling.

Tim Koechlin | August 5, 2011

Why the absurd squabble over the debt ceiling was distracting, destructive, and almost entirely beside the point. Read more »

Local Activism against Wal-Mart

Corporate Power, Wal-Mart and the Undermining of the Democratic Process

Joel Harrison | April 13, 2011

Is the Wal-Mart Way the American Way?

Martin J. Bennett | April 13, 2011

Why Is the Government Buying Long-Term Bonds?

Alejandro Reuss | January 19, 2011

Questions and Answers on the Fed’s “QE2” program. Read more »

Earlier web-only articles, mostly on the financial crisis, dating back to December 2007.

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