Getting poorer while working harder: The ‘cliff effect’
In addition to boosting wages, it will take major policy changes, like making child care more universally available and affordable, to offset the skyrocketing costs of living for American workers.
The coronavirus crash could be worse than the republican great depression of 1930
If we succeed in rebooting American manufacturing through the measures used by Hamilton (and emulated by China over the past 30 years), our recovery from this crisis could mark a new dawn for the American middle class.
Hong Kong in the crosshairs of global power and ideological struggles
How this conflict of economic and political systems turns out depends on whether China can confront its contradictions.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, October 5
Over 300 arrested at Senate offices during #CancelKavanaugh sit in, who talked to the FBI in the Kavanaugh investigation, Virgin Atlantic flies first commercial plane on recycled waste carbon gas and more.
If current trends hold, women around the world will have to wait 257 more...
"To build fairer and more inclusive economies we must instill gender parity across education, health, politics, and economic participation."
Book bans in Texas spread as new state law takes effect
According to the American Library Association, Texas was home to the most attempts to ban or restrict books in 2022.
A new bill could help protect the sacred seeds of indigenous people
Clayton Brascoupé has farmed in the red-brown foothills of New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains for more than 45 years. A Mohawk-Anishnaabe originally...
Increased restrictions on protest won’t keep communities safer
Instead of looking to combat-ready police to solve the problem of public disruption, the community itself has the capacity to create structures of safety and support by focusing on solidarity and confronting the foundational issues that are causing the violence in the first place.
Behold the 21st-century penthouse: Peak decadence?
From the summit of our new 'needle towers,' the ultra rich can look but never really see.
Western media accuse China of wanting to do what US does to other countries
A new Cold War media blitz against China that simultaneously serves US imperialism by blessing it or denying that it exists.









