Economy

Memo to the Punditocracy: Public Sector Jobs Are Real Jobs!

By Marshall Auerback / CounterPunch

Full employment should be front and center on our national agenda. So why are even liberals attacking public jobs and vocations?

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Sick Money: How Mitt Romney's Bain Investments Are Exploding the Deficit and Harming Our Health

By Richard (RJ) Eskow / AlterNet

What You Need to Know About a Worldwide Corporate Power Grab of Enormous Proportions

By Laurel Sutherlin / Rainforest Action Network

A Radical Solution to Rein in Rabid Banks and Save People's Homes From Foreclosure

By Laura Gottesdiener / AlterNet

Romney and Ryan's Economic Plan: Don't Do Anything That Would Help the Economy!

By Andrew Leonard / Salon

8 Reasons Wall Street Greed Is the Cause, and the Solution, To Phony Fiscal Cliff Crisis

Cornel West to Economists: 'Wake Up From Your Mechanistic, Cartesian Dream!'

9 Greedy CEOs Trying to Shred the Safety Net While Pigging Out on Corporate Welfare

Economy

Matt Taibbi on Mitt Romney's Crooked, Dirty Game

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin / Huffington Post

Politics and Plutocrats: A Parade of Inequality

Gar Smith / Earth Island Journal

Mitt Romney Is the Poster Child for Why There's No Economic Recovery -- Why Are Democrats So Bad at Saying That?

Marcy Wheeler / Emptywheel

The Hidden Progressive History of Income Tax

Erik Loomis / AlterNet

Years Later, Human Trafficking Survivors at Risk of Re-Exploitation

Ambika Kandasamy / New America Media/ SF Public Press

Obama's Big Finale at the DNC -- Dems Are More Agressive, United Than We've Seen in Years

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

A $2,167.02 Water Bill? How a Water Company Forced a 91-year-old Woman To Sell Her Home

Wenonah Hauter / Progressive Populist

5 Surprising Consequences of the War on Drugs

Norm Stamper / AlterNet

How the Big Banks Are Trying to Destroy Our Justice System

Pam Martens / AlterNet

Did Citigroup Defraud Billions from U.S. Ally Abu Dhabi?

Pam Martens / AlterNet

Former GOPer: How Republicans Went Crazy, Dems Lost Their Mojo, and the Middle Class Got Shafted

Bill Moyers / BillMoyers.com

Why Obama Has a Tricky Tightrope Act to Pull Off in His Big Speech

James K. Galbraith / AlterNet

Impossible Choices? The Conservatism of "Breaking Bad"

Michael Corcoran / Truthout

Could You Raise Your Kids on Less Than $15,000 a Year? Millions of Parents Are Forced to Learn How

Jim Hightower / Hightower Lowdown

7 Worst Media Brown-Nosers Who Enable Paul Ryan's Lies

Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet

Insecurity Is What Separates the Middle Class From Romney and Ryan.

Leo Gerard / AlterNet

4 Ways Romney & Ryan Would Roll Back the 20th Century

Jake Blumgart / AlterNet

Matt Taibbi Reveals How Romney Made His Fortune -- It Ain't Pretty, and He Shouldn't Be Proud of It

Amy Goodman, Matt Taibbi / Democracy Now!

Is This California’s Last Labor Day?

Brigid O'Farrell / AlterNet

The Republican War on the Poor

Jeff Madrick / Huffington Post

7 Ways Paul Ryan Wants to Betray His Fellow Generation X-ers

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Poverty: The New Growth Industry in America

Dean Baker / Op-Ed News

What Ralph Nader Is Thinking About the 2012 Election

Evelyn Nieves / AlterNet

Why Neil Barofsky’s Book “Bailout” Matters

Matt Stoller / Naked Capitalism

“The Dumbest Idea in the World”: Corporate America's False - and Dangerous - Ideology of Shareholder Value

Lynn Stout / Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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