Global Solidarity on the Docks
In March 2021, the massive container ship Ever Given, part of the Evergreen fleet, carrying eighteen thousand containers, ran aground,
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The Domestic Economy
The Green New Deal’s Magical Realism
When young activists from the Sunrise Movement and Justice Democrats occupied House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office in late 2018 to
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Property Supremacy
A book review of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America and One Percent Solution: How Corporations Are Remaking America One State at a Time
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Organized Money: What is Corporate America Thinking?-Freedom’s Janus Face
The pro-business forces behind the Janus case
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Sick on Arrival Health Care Reform in the Age of Obama
Despite all of the parallels drawn between President Obama and Franklin Roosevelt, the new administration initially responded to the health
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Gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
You know things have gotten bad for the banking industry when even the bankers themselves are beating up on their
Read MoreVideo: Debt, Wall Street, and Public Sector Unions
At last year’s conference on Public Sector Unions, Saqib Bhatti presented on how debt has replaced income in the US
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Staging Deindustrialization
Sweat, Written by Lynn Nottage Skeleton Crew, Written by Dominique Morisseau Reviewed by Sherry Linkon We often think of deindustrialization
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The Subprime Specter Returns: High Finance and the Growth of High-Risk Consumer Debt
Recognizing the risks to the public, regulators have begun to step in to curtail abuses and hold accountable those who violate the law in lending practices that affect all borrowers, including those with subprime credit scores. While default rates remain relatively low thus far with these subprime loans, we should guard against complacency. Despite the fact that large banks may be pulling back…
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Indentured Studenthood: The Higher Education Act and the Burden of Student Debt
Promising to do something about student debt has become the means for politicians to pretend they are doing something for the 99 percent. That was true even before the 2016 election campaign really got underway. Obama, after all, promised two free years of community college in his 2015 State of the Union address. That idea, like so many others from Republicans and Democrats, did not go anywhere, even though the most recent re-authorization of the 1965 Higher Education Act (HEA) expired in 2013. However, inaction is not just a symptom of Washington gridlock. The reality is that paying for college is a confounding, sprawling sector of the economy involving loans, grants, scholarships, and tax credits.
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