Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis: Economic Collapse in America’s Biggest Colony And What Can be Done About It
… What do the twin catastrophes of economic collapse and debt crisis mean for the 3.5 million U.S. citizens who
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The Domestic Economy
The Prison Industrial Complex: A Growth Industry in a Shrinking Economy
As tough as life was for American workers at the close of the twentieth century, the dawn of the twenty-first
Read MoreMarxism In The Age Of Financial Crises: Why Conventional Economics Can’t Explain the Great Recession
The crash and rescue of the banking system and the surge of unemployment, foreclosure, and sweeping cuts in social services
Read MoreECONOMIC PROSPECTS
Getting Real on Jobs and the Environment: Pipelines, Fracking, or Clean Energy? President Obama’s 2009 economic stimulus program—the American Recovery
Read MoreAmerica’s “New Class” A Profile of the Long-Term Unemployed
For more than two years, the rates of long-term unemployment have been historically high. Even as the overall unemployment rate
Read MoreECONOMIC PROSPECTS: Fighting Seriously for Jobs and Social Security
As the severe unemployment crisis drags into its third year, proposals for solving the crisis are proliferating. Even more ideas
Read MoreThe Feminization of Austerity
The current attack on public sector unions is the latest step in a long-term effort to “end big government” through
Read MoreState and Municipal Alternatives to Austerity
The pitched battle in Wisconsin last winter over the collective bargaining rights of public sector workers was only the most
Read MoreWORKER CENTERS: Entering a New Stage of Growth and Development
Worker centers—community-based organizations that engage in a combination of service, advocacy, and organizing to provide support to low-wage workers—play an
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