Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – Jay Shambaugh, Ryan Nunn, and Lauren Bauer discuss the need for U.S. law and policy to adapt to
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Canadian Dimension: Canadian labour in crisis: the way forward
Photo by Roger Annis Workers across Canada, most of whom are non-unionized, will benefit from the success of the Fight for 15 & Fairness campaign
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Claire Connelly calls out the perennial right-wing spin that there’s always money available for corporations or the
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Assorted content to end your week. – Ed Finn reminds us that ending child poverty makes good economic sense in addition to being a moral
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Shaun Richman reviews David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs – including the inevitable inference that there needs to be some
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew O’Hehir talks to Yanis Varoufakis about the impossibility of building shared prosperity on a foundation of
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Julian Baggini discusses the importance of talking about taxes as a force for the common good – particularly
Continue readingThings Are Good: Economists: Improve the Economy by Empowering Workers
Attacks on unions isn’t anything new, even when workers are asking for safer conditions or a little job security. What is new is that economists
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – J.W. Mason reviews Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists with a reminder that the decades-long push to subjugate popular democracy
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This and that for your weekend reading. – Trish Hennessy examines the aftermath of Ontario’s provincial election, while Andrew Mitrovica traces the spread of Trumpian
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Assorted content to end your week. – Frances Ryan highlights the disgrace of social programs designed to strip away basic supports when they’re needed most:
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Kenan Malik reminds us of the ongoing importance of unions in fighting for fairness and equality. Frank
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Andrew Anthony interviews Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett about their new book on the connection between inequality and
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – CBC talks to Robert Frank about the role of luck and privilege in generating concentrated wealth. And Kate
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Assorted content to end your week. – Cherise Seucharan interviews Andrew MacLeod about his new book on the health benefits of investing in income, housing
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Lambert Strether points out that standard estimates of income inequality (jarring though they are to begin with) tend
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Peter Goodman discusses how austerity has changed society for the worse in the UK: For a nation
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Assorted content to end your week. – Dru Oja Jay points out the connections between improved public services, decreased inequality and meaningful action to fight
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ian Millhiser writes that the Republican majority on the U.S.’ Supreme Court is restoring the robber baron
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Matt Taylor discusses how the U.S.’ Supreme Court has stacked the deck against workers by allowing employers to
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