In five years over 40 percent of the American labor force will have uncertain work; in a decade, most of us.
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The Upsurge in Uncertain Work
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Corporate welfare is camouflaged in taxes that seem neutral, but give windfalls to entrenched corporations at the expense of people and small businesses.
I wasn’t thinking about San Francisco That Was when I started watching So I Married an Axe Murderer, but I soon found myself on an unexpected nostalgia trip.
New York and San Francisco both suffer from soaring rents and gentrification, despite decades of regulation. How Seattle socialist Kshama Sawant plans to do affordable housing right.
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The Revolt Against the Ruling Class
The biggest political phenomenon in America today is a revolt against the “ruling class” of insiders that have dominated Washington for decades.
Follow these five stages.
In cities like Oakland and Seattle, where the minimum wage is on the rise, restaurants are raising prices and rethinking tips as a way to level the playing field for workers.
Economist Kate Raworth explains why wealth cannot be achieved by national economies that are aimed only at growth.
Hillary Clinton won’t propose reinstating a bank break-up law known as the Glass-Steagall Act.
If we continue in the direction we’re headed we’ll soon have a health insurance system dominated by two or three mammoth for-profit corporations capable of squeezing employees and consumers for all they’re worth.