Business has not been hurt as bad as expected in the last year. And while a lot of people have been hurt bad, the number of personal bankruptcies is way down year to year. The reason is obvious: when the government gives people money, good...
Author: Erik Loomis
So much of the debate over college loan forgiveness revolves around narratives of upper middle class kids being forgiven $200,000 because they majored in underwater dance or some such thing..
Bootstrapism and the fear of "dependency" has gone very far to limit and restrict American social welfare programs for a very long time. Even with the pandemic, business owners and.
This is the grave of Melvil Dewey. Born in 1851 in Adams Center, New York, Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey was interested in education from a young man. He graduated from Amherst College in 1874. By this time, he was already interested in classifications in libraries....
This week's big read on music should be Dayen's piece on the monopolies that place the music industry at peril because artists can't make any money. Dwarfing all that in.
Tiya Miles is one of our finest historians and this excerpt from a recent essay of hers is powerful, connecting how racial domination of Black people already was a real.
Marc Levinson is a union economist who has done a lot of great work for a very, very long time. He has an interesting Times op-ed on how the ship getting stuck int the Suez Canal is another sign of the great fragility of our...
The framing of this Post story on Cuba developing COVID vaccines that will go far to immunize the world's poorer population is so frustrating. Titled "Against the odds, Cuba could.
As actual Infrastructure Week is happening since we have a serious president who cares about doing things, we are having a real conversation about our infrastructure for once. As Justine.
Peñasco least chipmunk There was a downside to the environmental movement's transformation from a mass movement to one that relied on fundraising to litigate through the courts. But that litigation was indeed necessary because the nation passed all sorts of environmental legislation in the 1960s...
This is a pretty interesting article about Utah's new cage-free law for chickens, which Jan Dutkiewicz writes in The New Republic might in fact be counterproductive. That's because the law.
I am not surprised that right-wingers are outraged by the idea of forgiving student debt. After all, they routinely pretend that they rose to the top through merit instead of.