STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Organizing and exposing the maldistribution of power is vital Pretty much everyone accepts that inequality is a big problem in the United States. But it is doubtful that most people grasp how successfully U.S. elites have captured ...
8 Dec 2021 - Martin Hart-Lan...
It's the bosses game: heads they win, tails you lose Between 28% and 47% of all private sector workers are subject to noncompete agreements according to an Economic Policy Institute report. Noncompete agreements (or noncompetes) are provisions in an ...
20 Oct 2021 - Martin Hart-Lan...
STREET SMART ECONOMICS | A team of researchers proposes the IRS make monthly payments to lower-income families to move every household above the poverty line W e could eradicate poverty and raise the incomes of U.S. families in the bottom half of the inco ...
7 Jul 2021 - Mary King
STREET SMART ECONOMICS | This research legitimizes efforts in Portland and beyond to defund the police C onsiderable research shows that oppressive economic and social conditions are bad for one’s mental and physical health. A number of studies have also ...
26 May 2021 - Martin Hart-Lan...
STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Investing in enforcement of tax laws could bring in over a trillion dollars in government revenue In this U.S., the heaviest taxes fall on people with the least income, despite the insults you hear about so-called “makers and take ...
28 Apr 2021 - Mary King
STREET SMART ECONOMICS | It is hard to celebrate a system that covers fewer than 30% of America’s jobless Our unemployment insurance system has failed us. With tens of millions of workers struggling just to pay rent and buy food, Congress was forced to pa ...
17 Mar 2021 - Martin Hart-Lan...
STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Prepare to step up locally, in case the feds don’t The crisis of affordable housing can only be met by a well-funded government program to buy, renovate and build excellent public housing. The private sector has not and will not m ...
17 Feb 2021 - Mary King
STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Most ended the additional pay for frontline retail workers before July I t wasn’t that long ago that the country celebrated frontline workers by banging pots in the evening to thank them for the risks they took doing their jobs du ...
13 Jan 2021 - Martin Hart-Lan...
STREET SMART ECONOMICS | The pandemic widened the gap between rich and poor, but the Legislature could provide remedies Terrible news of death and economic destruction due to the pandemic dominates the headlines, hitting hardest at the health and economic ...
23 Dec 2020 - Mary King
STREET SMART ECONOMICS | By protecting themselves, workers can better protect the people they serve We need strong unions, all of us. Tragically, although perhaps not surprisingly, even during the pandemic businesses continue to aggressively resist worker ...
11 Nov 2020 - Martin Hart-Lan...