COMMENTARY | State and local taxes on the rich could support affordable housing, child care, health care in Oregon Right-wing billionaires are funding a class war against the rest of the country, to grab an even bigger share of the pie without regard for ...
16 Mar 2018 - Mary King
COMMENTARY | The controversial trade agreement is set for renegotiation. Could this be the year we finally put our foot down? The North American Free Trade Agreement is unpopular with many people who correctly blame it for encouraging capital flight, job ...
9 Feb 2018 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | Government, not corporations, should manage trade policy in the U.S. Street Smart Economics is a periodic series written by professors emeriti in economics for Street Roots. How do we change U.S. trade policy to better serve the interests of ...
29 Dec 2017 - Robin Hahnel
COMMENTARY | Historically, it’s the United States – not North Korea – that has undermined diplomacy United States-North Korean relations remain tense, with the Trump administration threatening to launch a first-strike military attack to destroy North Kore ...
24 Nov 2017 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | They've been enormously enriched for decades while taxes on the 1 percent have fallen Street Smart Economics is a periodic series written by professors emeriti in economics for Street Roots. Weather forecasters are predicting another col ...
17 Nov 2017 - Mary King
COMMENTARY | Restoring prudent regulations for U.S. employers is the first step If neither the neoliberal globalization peddled by establishment political parties nor xenophobic protectionism preached by right-wing populists like Donald Trump is the answe ...
6 Oct 2017 - Robin Hahnel
COMMENTARY | Efforts to speed economic growth are not the solution A recent study published in Science Magazine, “The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940,” makes clear that the workings of the contemporary U.S. economy hav ...
29 Aug 2017 - Martin Hart-Lan...
COMMENTARY | With two city council seats open in 2018, these initiatives could be included in a progressive platform Right now, city campaigns may be our best strategy for creating an economy that works for everybody. Local governments still respond to or ...
4 Aug 2017 - Mary King
COMMENTARY | While multinational corporations benefit, less skilled workers, less developed countries and other Americans are harmed There is a grand debate over international economic policy now raging, and the outcome will have profound impacts on how t ...
23 Jun 2017 - Robin Hahnel
COMMENTARY | Improving our quality of life will require rebuilding union strength Fewer workers are in unions now than in 1983, the earliest year in the Bureau of Labor Statistics series on union membership. In 1983 there were 17.7 million, 20.1 percent o ...
9 Jun 2017 - Martin Hart-Lan...