Tag: economy
New research shows ‘pandemic profits’ of billionaires could fully fund $3,000...
“America’s billionaires could pay for a major Covid relief bill and still not lose a dime of their pre-virus riches.”
Building a better and fairer economy
Despite all the arguments in our own society against socialist systems, this sort of system could include the best parts of capitalist systems.
Why America’s future depends on rebuilding our factories
Biden’s Build Back Better campaign will make commonsense investments in U.S. manufacturing that put millions to work and ensure a reliable, high-quality supply of critical goods.
Inhumane, criminal: What the US Congress is refusing to do for...
While Americans are suffering, these politicians in the Senate don’t lack for anything. In this Congress more than half of its members are millionaires.
With pandemic a ‘tipping point,’ UN warns 1 billion more people...
Unless strong and meaningful action is taken now, including major social investments and a Green New Deal-style program, the Covid-19 crisis will make an already dire economic situation much worse.
Election, legal disasters, surging Covid cases, economy stumbling: Just “too much...
Major irony: the perceived, 2016 “change” candidate was and is utterly incapable of change.
How Americans can help the frontline workers battling Covid-19
The pandemic highlighted the essential work that nursing home staff members perform—and the necessity of treating them as essential workers from now on.
Greenpeace releases far-reaching ‘just recovery agenda’ to tackle interlocking crises of...
We must “shift from an economy that is extractive and exploitative to one that regenerates and repairs,” the new report says.
How Mitch McConnell flouts the will of the American people
Right now, one person—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell—stands in the way of America’s fight against COVID-19.
The federal government owns 92% of student debt. Will Biden wipe...
lifting these financial burdens would help individual debt holders meet daily needs, reduce the racial wealth gap, and give a boost to the national economy.
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Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.
Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back
Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.
Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails
The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.
The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace
Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.
State Department purge left US exposed as Iran war sent energy prices soaring
Internal layoffs removed the very officials who would have modeled oil supply disruptions, coordinated with Gulf energy partners, and prepared for retaliatory strikes as war with Iran drove gas and crude prices sharply higher.