Economy

Why Does The Washington Post Think It's Bad News that the Absurd GOP Budget Strategy is Falling Apart?

By Dean Baker / Beat the Press

Apparently the Post didn't get the memo that deficit reduction is completely discredited.

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Now They Want to Take Away the 8-Hour Day and 40-Hour Week

By Dave Johnson / Truthout

OCC Follies: Troubled Borrowers Get Shafted Yet Again

By Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

One Hospital Charges $8,000 ... Another Charges $38,000 for the Same Treatment?

By Thom Hartmann / AlterNet

WATCH Elizabeth Warren: Students Should Get ‘Same Deal’ On Interest Rates As Big Banks

By Naima Ramos-Chapman / Campus Progress

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Matt Taibbi: Public Unions Need to Stop Poisonous Koch Brothers From Buying Tribune Papers

The 4 Big Ways That Insatiable Corporate Hunger for Profits Has Devastated American Life -- and the World Along with It

Shocker: Republicans Fight Obama Plan to Privatize the Hugely Popular, Cheap Energy Source of the TVA

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Economy

Austerity and Debt Conspire to Wreck the Lives of Working American Families

Robert Kuttner / Knopf Publishing

How Your Tax Dollars Fund Bad, Low-Wage Jobs and Help Fuel Inequality

Anna Simonton / AlterNet

7 Financial Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

How 'The Economist' Got it Wrong — America Still Needs Affirmative Action

Sean McElwee / AlterNet

A Future With No Safety Net? How Brutal Austerity Cuts Are Dismantling the European Dream

Roberto Savio / Inter Press Service

10 Reasons Austerity Is a Crock

Stephanie Kelton / New Economic Perspectives

Obama Embraces Plutocrats Again With His Billionaire Commerce Secretary Choice

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

What's Behind ‘Substantial Increases’ in Suicide Rate for Middle-Aged Americans? Bad Economy Is Likely Culprit

Bruce E. Levine / AlterNet

How a Well-Meaning Progressive Accidentally Launched Powerball Lottery Industry Across America

Matthew Vaz / In These Times

Instead of Expanding Arlington National Cemetery, Why Don't We Stop Producing Corpses?

David Swanson / AlterNet

Why It's Going Cost a Lot of Money to Cut Meals on Wheels' Budget—Sequester Takes America Further Down the Hole

Dave Johnson / Blog for Our Future

Another Feeble Jobs Report -- And What's the Answer in Washington? More Austerity!

Robert Kuttner / Huffington Post

Your Retirement for a Bottle of Champagne: How Wall Street Fraudsters Ripped You Off, Again

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

5 Ways That Raw, Unregulated Capitalism Is Acting Like a Cancer on American Society

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

Schools and Cities Are Divesting From Fossil Fuels -- Why Can't All the Big Enviro Groups Do the Same?

Naomi Klein / The Nation

Famous Harvard Professor Gay-Bashes John Maynard Keynes, Suggests People Without Children Do Not Care About Future Generations

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Casinos Are Booming Thanks to State Governments' Need to Exploit Gambling Addicts for Revenue

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

$22,000 Bid for the Right to a 6-Week Unpaid Internship Lays Bare What It Takes to Get Ahead in America

Sarah Kendzior / Al Jazeera English

The Rich Have Gained $5.6 Trillion in the 'Recovery,' While the Rest of Us Have Lost $669 Billion

Les Leopold / AlterNet

Big Banks Are Knee-Deep in the Dirty Money-Laundering Business

Michael Hudson / ICIJ

4 Ways the Payday Loan Industry Sucks Billions From Local Economies (Hard Times USA)

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

How a Much-Heralded Bank Reform Proposal Could Actually Blow Up the American Economy

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Why the Person Building Your Next House Might Just Be a Woman

Brigid O'Farrell / AlterNet

Cruel Country: Debtors Prisons Are Punishing the Poor Across America

Bill Berkowitz / AlterNet

Is War Good for the Economy?

Mike Lofgren / Huffington Post

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