Tag: U.S. Economy

What will happen if robots, AI, and automation displace a huge percentage of workers. How will there be enough consumers to buy all the goods and services produced if there is a big drop in earnings?

But poverty deniers won't look deeper, because they don't want to admit that anyone willing to work could be suffering in the richest country in the world.

There will be important opportunities in the next few years to advance the movement for economic, racial and environmental justice as well as peace.

Instead, the fracking industry has helped set new records for U.S. oil production while continuing to lose huge amounts of money – and that was before the recent crash in oil prices.

The underlying problem isn’t that Americans have been living beyond their means. It’s that their means haven’t been keeping up with the growing economy. Most gains have gone to the top.

It’s time to demand that the economic system work for all of us.

The only way to address this ultimate threat is through the sort of international cooperation that the anti-globalists fear the most, a linking of arms across the rising seas to defeat a malign global force and the powerful elite that maintains it.

The inequality gap on a planet growing more extreme.

The middle class and poor pay a larger percentage of their incomes on these tariffs than do the rich.

We can stop NAFTA II and replace corporate trade with a new model that raises working conditions and protects the environment.