By Sam Pizzigati / CounterPunch Back in the early 20th century, earnest middle-class reformers out to overturn America’s plutocratic order gravitated to the pages of The Public, a weekly magazine…
Or Confronting the Needless Scourge of Poverty.
This year, Latinas will earn 52 cents for every $1 earned by White men. For many, the answer to closing that gap lies in entrepreneurship.
Food, toiletries and over-the-counter medicines have been marked up so high that many prisoners are simply priced out.
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, a giant investment bank with a storied history, filed for bankruptcy. The shock was profound; world markets melted down.
By Max Jones / Original to ScheerPost Former head of the Wells Fargo community banking division, Carrie Tolstedt, “agreed to plead guilty to the criminal charge of obstructing regulators’ investigation”…
As a result of pandemic relief policies expiring under the Biden administration, Americans faced the largest one-year increase of poverty on record.
How will the new president reconcile the ban on oil with the country’s economic dependence on extractivism?
Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson explain how imperialism is a product not only of the struggle between classes but also nations.
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost U.S. banks are again in the crosshairs. Standard and Poor’s has downgraded five new middle-tier banks and put three others on negative outlook.…
Losing jobs isn’t the only thing workers have to worry about. AI may make many jobs worse.
Sixty years without substantially narrowing the racial wealth divide is a policy failure.
Coming to Terms with China.
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost When the FDIC put Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank into receivership in March, a study reported on the Social Science Research…
"The dangerous reflex to hike rates, no matter the causes of inflation, is both a policy failure and a failure to imagine a world in which workers are anything other…
