Economy

California Raised Taxes On The Rich: Your State Can Too

By Fred Glass / Labor Notes

Last year the California Federation of Teachers spearheaded Prop 30, the single largest progressive tax passed in the state since World War II.

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America Is on a Path to Turn into Detroit, and Republicans Are Cool with That

By Thom Hartmann / AlterNet

What the Federal Reserve Could Do to Help Hard-working Americans

By Ellen Brown / Web of Debt blog

Why Larry Summers Shouldn't Be Permitted to Run a Dog Pound, Much Less the Federal Reserve

By Yves Smith / Naked Capitalism

A Bold Plan for All the Detroits Out There

By Marshall Auerback, Stephanie Kelton, L. Randall Wray / New Economic Perspectives

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Economy

Why Do Conservatives and Libertarians Support Obama in Subsidizing Big Banks?

William K. Black / New Economic Perspectives

The American Dream Has Turned into a Grueling Quest for Survival for Millions of People

Sarah Kendzior / Al Jazeera English

5 Reasons It's Just Absurd That America Doesn't Tax Wall St's Transactions

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

5 Worst Cities in America for Class Mobility

Alex Kane / AlterNet

How Big Finance Crushes Innovation and Holds Back Our Economy

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Detroit's Collapse Reveals the Awful Dystopia that the United States Is Becoming

Juan Cole / Informed Comment

Economists Forecast the End of Growth as We Know It -- It's About Time

Nafeez Ahmed / The Guardian

Detroit Has Gone Bankrupt, But It's Not the First Place to Do So

Leo Benedictus / The Guardian

Sorry, Britain: Bain Capital Now Owns the Majority of Your Blood Plasma Supply

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

Shocking Things Wall Street Financiers Say Off the Record About Their Bloated, Corrupt Industry

Les Leopold / AlterNet

The Latest Census of Global Fortunes: Mo' Money for the 1%

Sam Pizzigati / Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality

Rhode Island Has Paid Family Leave, 47 States Still Don't

Bryce Covert / Think Progress

Bank of America's Recipe for Getting Away with Massive Fraud, Racketeering and Money Laundering

Andrew Gavin Marshall / AlterNet

8 Stark Realities of America's Dysfunctional New Economy

Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet

Robert Reich: We Need to Stop Subsidizing Sky-High CEO Pay

Robert Reich / RobertReich.org

How a Libertarian Used Ayn Rand's Crazy Philosophy to Drive Sears Into the Ground

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Mayor Bloomberg's Record With New York's Unions is Pretty Terrible

John Surico / The Brooklyn Rail

iPads vs. Teachers — Why Technology is Winning

David Sirota / Salon.com

Has the 1 Percent Committed Treason?

Robert Reich / RobertReich.org

9 Former Public Servants, Including Hillary Clinton, Cashing in for Big Bucks on the Speaker Circuit

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Why Did the Fed Refuse to Heed Warnings About Fraudulent Mortgage Lenders?

William K. Black / Benzinga

The Maximum Wage: Coming Soon To A CEO Near You?

Mark Engler / The New Internationalist

The 5 Biggest Obscenities of Capitalism Today

Paul Buchheit / AlterNet

Goldman Sachs Banker Screams Racial Slur, Gets Knocked Out Cold

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Republicans Nix Food Stamps Because Starving People is Their Brand

Robert Borosage / Blog for Our Future

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