Economics
Canadian health care getting attention in U.S. election; how about income inequality?
September 13, 2019The faster that income and wealth concentrate at the top, the worse off the daily lives of average people become.
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Jobs numbers conceal real unemployment and underemployment rate of 7.2%
September 6, 2019130,000 new jobs last month—but 20% of them were census temps. “This isn’t a very strong employment report,” AFL-CIO chief economist William Spriggs said.
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Millennial workers who question capitalism are on to something
September 5, 2019Maybe it’s time to follow the millennials’ lead, and really start questioning not just aspects of the U.S. system, but the very nature of the system itself.
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400 years after slavery’s start, economic band-aids won’t solve racial divide
August 27, 2019I It’ll take bold structural reform and the political will to finally achieve economic justice for African Americans, because clearly ending slavery wasn’t enough.
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Congress has never let the minimum wage erode for this long
June 17, 2019A simple way to fix this problem once and for all would be to adopt automatic annual minimum wage adjustment.
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