Jim Hightower, AlterNet. November 12, 2009. The latest job numbers mock the smiley-faced claims of economists and polticos that the Great Recession is over.
Wesley Kendall, AlterNet. April 9, 2009. The taxpayer and the drug user have become odd bedfellows, with the former losing its wealth and the latter its liberty.
Staff, Brave New Films AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. March 7, 2009. The Senate must quickly take up bankruptcy reform legislation and pass it.
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. March 6, 2009. As America's Misery Index soars, so must our Empathy Index.
Nicole McClelland, Mother Jones. February 28, 2008. Sites like SugarDaddy.com lure young women by offering them far more money than they could get in most professions. What's wrong with this picture?
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. December 11, 2007. It's harder to move up the economic ladder in the United States than in other wealthy countries. What happened to the American dream?
David Francis, Christian Science Monitor. November 13, 2007. That ranking would surprise most Americans, who likely consider their nation the most prosperous in the world.
Deb Price, Creators Syndicate. November 12, 2007. It has taken more than 30 years for the House to pass the bill now known as the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Heather Boushey, AlterNet. August 30, 2007. New data show that while top earners are OK, this may be the first upswing in history in which middle-class families never fully rebound.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. July 28, 2007. Between 2001 and 2006, the healthcare sector added 1.7 million jobs while the rest of the economy added none. So how well is the economy really doing?
Elana Levin, AlterNet: PEEK. March 19, 2007. Elana Levin: Why does the government support jobs programs for the unemployed that lead to dead-end, short-term jobs?
Deb Price, Creators Syndicate. March 12, 2007. Job discrimination against transgender Americans usually goes unnoticed. But Congress will soon have the opportunity to outlaw most of it by passing the Employment Nondiscrimination Act.
