This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ed Broadbent and Andrew Jackson highlight how among its other advantages, a national pharmacare program would prevent workers from being tied to jobs by a need to preserve coverage through work: On top of the unnecessarily high and rising cost of private
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Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Jackson highlights how the Libs’ signature tax baubles are accomplishing little while costing significantly more than projected. And Karen Stewart joins the ranks of the wealthy looking to pay more of their fair share in taxes – emphasizing in particular the
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Kevin Drum writes about the need to address the climate crisis as a war for the future of humanity. And Will Wade reports on new research showing that we’ll earn back more than the price of a rapid transition from fossil fuels
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Assorted content to end your week. – Robert Frank reports on the latest galling threshold in wealth inequality, as millionaires consisting of less than 1% of the population now control effectively half of the wealth on Earth. And Steven Greenhouse asks why actual workers aren’t being included in talks about
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Jackson calls out the Cons for their platform of taking from the many to further enrich the most privileged few. David Macdonald studies what the unspecified cuts promised by the Cons could mean in terms of losses to public services. And
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Paul Kahnert writes that tax cuts never lead to widespread prosperity – but do further entrench the wealth and power of those who already have the most. Andrew Jackson points out how the Cons’ platform follows a familiar pattern of freebies for
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Tom Rand and Mike Andrade point out that the Alberta tar sands wouldn’t be sustainable economically even if people ignored their environmental effects. Bruce Livesey offers a reminder that Andrew Scheer’s plans are built entirely around favouring dirty oil at the expense
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Assorted content to end your week. – Manfred Bienefeld writes about the gap between the urgent problems we face, and the sad excuses for policies on offer from the Libs and Cons as Canadians go to the polls. And Andrew Jackson discusses how little point there is to the tax
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Peter Wade reports on new polling showing that American voters remain angry about a political system which benefits a privileged few at the expense of everybody else. Jake Johnson reports on Bernie Sanders’ message that it’s time for workers to win the class
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Andrew Jackson writes that bland centrism is no response to right-wing populism: Right-wing populism is a complex phenomenon which varies a lot by country. But most analysts agree that it is deeply rooted in material circumstances: rising economic inequality to often obscene levels,
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Matt Bruenig offers up a set of proposals to help American families toward economic security. And Andrew Jackson has some suggestions to boost Canada’s middle class: (T)op-line statistics suggest that ordinary middle-class households are seeing little or no increase in their incomes
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The Economic Policy Institute charts how government policy is exacerbating inequality in the U.S. And Sam Pizzigati discusses how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leading a much-needed discussion about ensuring that wealthy people pay their fair share – and notes that the arguments against a
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Assorted content to end your week. – Jonathan Malesic writes that while millennials may be facing the worst of an economy set up to push workers into precarity, the workforce as a whole is dealing with high levels of burnout. And Jacques Marcoux and Katie Nicholson report on research showing
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Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Gerard Di Trolio discusses the need for an active labour movement to respond to the contempt for collective action shared by the Libs and the Cons. And Nicole Goodkind reports on the Trump administration’s plan to deprive workers of billions in wages by
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Alex Morris writes about the barriers between the U.S.’ working class and any hope of financial stability and security: In 1960, the annual average health care costs in America were just $146 per person; in 2016, that figure had risen to $10,348.
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Guardian’s editorial board writes that stagnating and even declining life expectancies and nother indications of declining social health are the result of purely political choices: In 2010 a government-commissioned review looking at the relationship between health and wealth – only the
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew Jackson argues that Canada has nothing to gain in trying to race Donald Trump to the bottom when it comes to corporate taxes: While marginal effective corporate-tax rates are clearly a factor in business investment decisions, they are by no means
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Stephen McBride offers some important lessons on austerity from government responses to the 2008 economic crisis. – Zoe Drewett reports on the rising level of poverty in the UK. Andrew Jackson points out how the Libs’ measuring stick for poverty seems aimed at
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Jackson comments on the need for a national anti-poverty strategy which can actually meet its intended purpose: [The new Poverty Reduction Strategy] responds to progressives and anti poverty activists who have long called for a federal government led, broadly based initiative
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Annie Lowrey points out the massive amounts of money being directed toward stock buybacks in the U.S., with the predictable effect of further enriching the people who already have the most. And Andrew Jackson’s review of Mariana Mazzucato’s The Value of Everything
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