With all the talk of raising the minimum wage, there is one state that shouldn’t have any trouble at all doing just that. Why?
Category: Economy
What’s the matter with Missouri, and what we can do about it
Back in 2012, the most famous losing candidate in American wanted to be the junior U.S. Senator from Missouri. Todd Akin became late night
$15 minimum wage? Not a problem, says Seatac WA
It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the
Jackson, Mississippi rising
Six years after the 2008 economic meltdown, the overwhelming majority of people in the U.S. and the E.U are still struggling. Most people know
Global derivatives markets 20 percent larger than before the crash
What’s a derivative? The word “derivative” may ring a bell because Wall Street speculation in “innovative financial instruments” such as derivatives, helped tank the economy
Why is Obama’s Trans Pacific Partnership agreement being negotiated in secret?
Answer: Because the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is not really a free trade agreement. It’s Obama’s parting gift to the 1%—a global, corporate Trojan
The global sweatshop economy, a century after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The date was March 25, 1911. As employees were getting ready to leave work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Lower Manhattan, a fire
The economic facts about farmers’ markets: Freshness and high quality don’t cost more
Daffodils are blooming here in the Northeast. That’s the surest sign that opening day for our local farmers’ markets is not far off. That’s
Can democracy cure American capitalism?
Notes from a lecture by political economist Richard Wolff, author of Capitalism Hits the Fan: Capitalism is sick and American capitalism is the disease.
Will the protests at the University of Southern Maine spark a national student movement?
Like so many other institutions in this, our neoliberal land of opportunity, universities have become infested with rent extracting parasites. Were I to say