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America’s Dead Zones: From Detroit to Dyersburg, Why Does Prosperity Pass So Many Places By?

Louis Ferleger, AlterNet. January 24, 2012.

Some regions are recovering, while others across America remain in deep decline. How did this happen and what can we do?

Why Are US Job Numbers Better Than Europe’s? Thank the Deficit!

Marshall Auerback, AlterNet. January 9, 2012.

Americans should quit listening to austerity hawks and embrace time-tested economic logic.

Why Spain’s New Government is Drinking Austerity Kool-Aid and How This Threatens the Global Economy

Marshall Auerback, AlterNet. January 3, 2012.

European elites push economic myths that benefit the rich and screw the rest. Spain's program means even higher public deficits, fewer jobs, and slowed growth.

Kids, Minivans, and Drug-Dealing: How the Recession Pulls Ordinary Families Into the Weed Game

Tony D'Souza, Mother Jones. January 1, 2012.

Struggling to keep their house and feed their kids, a California family goes from typical to criminal.

3 Reasons Short-term Politics Can't Solve a Long-Run Jobs Crisis

Bo Cutter, December 20, 2011.

Can our broken political system focus anytime soon on a real problem? With a eurozone storm looming, we've no time to wait.

GOP Again Holds Working America Hostage to its Perverse Ideological Priorities

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. December 15, 2011.

Though Congress has averted government shutdown, working people and the unemployed are still waiting for help.

7 Ways to Support the Real Job Creator: Main Street

John Cavanagh, David Korten, YES! Magazine. November 30, 2011.

It turns out that most job creation in the United States is the result of Main Street entrepreneurs, not Wall Street financial wizards.

John Maynard Keynes Knew What Occupy Wall Street Tells Us Today: "Banks and bankers are by nature blind."

James K. Galbraith, AlterNet. November 11, 2011.

Economist Friedrich Hayek is the darling of conservatives. Progressives prefer John Maynard Keynes. But when it comes to sensible policy, there's really no contest.

The Economic Future Looks Dark as the Faux Economic Recovery is Primarily Low-Paying Jobs

Annette Bernhardt, AlterNet. November 1, 2011.

The current "recovery" is actually deepening our deficit of good jobs.

2000s: The Decade from Hell for Almost All Americans But The Richest

Andy Kroll, TomDispatch.com. October 6, 2011.

In recent months, a blizzard of new data has laid bare the dilapidated condition of the American economy, and particularly of the once-mighty American middle class.

Why Aren't Ayn Rand's Wealthy "Job Creators" ... Creating Jobs?

John Paul Rollert, New Deal 2.0. September 29, 2011.

The myth of the wealthy "job creator" has been used for years to underscore a harmful vision of capitalism.

Biometrics at Pizza Hut and KFC? How Face Recognition and Digital Fingerprinting Are Creeping Into the U.S. Workplace

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. September 26, 2011.

Biometric technology is being used to more closely track low-wage workers, already desperate in a bad economy.

Middle Class Death Watch -- 33 Frightening Economic Developments

David DeGraw, Amped Status. September 18, 2011.

Downward mobility, homelessness spreading to the middle class, 200,000 public employees laid off? Here are some frightening trends to keep an eye on.

11 Reasons Why the Unemployment Crisis Is Even Worse Than You Think

Michael Thornton, AlterNet. September 14, 2011.

Here are 11 unemployment facts that mass media underreport or ignore completely.

Massive Unemployment: Proof That Global Capitalism Doesn't Work

Steve Fraser, Joshua B. Freeman, TomDispatch.com. September 11, 2011.

We may be witnessing the birth of a new permanent class of the marginalized.

Has America Become Entirely Dysfunctional?

Robert Parry, Consortium News. September 5, 2011.

From Ayn Rand fetishists to an uninformed public, from the Tea Parties to class warfare from above: is the entire system falling apart?

Why Are Politicians Running from Economic Reality into Tea Party Fantasy Land?

Eric Alterman, The Nation. September 5, 2011.

Just three years ago, President Obama was an unapologetic Keynesian. Now, he's jumped on the deficit hysteria bandwagon.

'Workampers': What It's Like to Wander Around the Country in an RV Desperately Looking for Work

Michael Thornton, AlterNet. August 30, 2011.

Finding a new job today often requires thinking outside the box, and you can’t think much further outside the job search box than workamping.

By Not Creating Jobs, Obama Is Not Doing His Own Job. So Do We Have A President or Not?

Jim Hightower, Creators Syndicate. August 24, 2011.

Instead of making jobs Priority No.1, Obama put Wall Street banksters first, dumping trillions of dollars from public funds into saving those who crashed our economy.

US of Austerity: What $570 Billion Cuts Will Do to Our Water, Air, the Jobless, Children, the Elderly, and the Poor

Andy Kroll, Mother Jones. August 2, 2011.

The debt ceiling deal simultaneously slashes programs crucial to our country's functioning and opens the door to more devastating- and mandatory - cuts.

'The Future Is Terrifying': 6.2 Million Long-Term Unemployed Living On the Edge of Disaster

Michael Thornton, AlterNet. July 29, 2011.

The emotional toll on people who have been out of work for a long time can be devastating.

White Families Have 20 Times the Wealth of Black Families: How Racism's Legacy Created a Crushing Depression In Black America

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. July 27, 2011.

The economic crisis has hit most families hard--but since many black families had less wealth to start with, its impact on them has been nothing short of disastrous.

5 Ways Americans Are Surviving the Great Recession

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. July 24, 2011.

Being a resourceful people, Americans are adapting to their new economic situation in a variety of ways.

How to Succeed at a Summer Job: Look White and Christian

Jamilah King, ColorLines. July 11, 2011.

While young prospective workers in general are saddled with record levels of unemployment, young workers of color face an even bleaker economic outlook.

Time For a New Plan: Frightening Jobless Numbers Show Flaws in GOP Austerity Agenda

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. July 8, 2011.

While Obama pushes for a deal on the debt ceiling, jobs numbers make plain that the focus in Washington is in the wrong place: jobs, not deficits, are the crisis.

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