Tag: economy

We can and should ask our policymakers to rewrite the rules of our economy and rebuild a pharmaceutical industry that is designed to serve the needs of patients, not profits.

Real people in the real world, those not at the top, have experienced a decade of ever greater instability, while the inequality gap of this beyond-gilded age is sure to shape a truly messy world ahead.

My conclusion: Incentives just don’t work.

The Green New Deal as a concept has arrived. Where it goes from here is up to us.

Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution gives Congress the power to create the nation’s money supply. Congress needs to exercise that power.

"We are going to transition this country into the future and we are not going to be dragged behind by our past.”

Federal employees have child care fees to add to long lists of expenses for households that live paycheck to paycheck.

What will happen if robots, AI, and automation displace a huge percentage of workers. How will there be enough consumers to buy all the goods and services produced if there is a big drop in earnings?

America’s wealthy have never been wealthier. They should pay their fair share of taxes. The big switcheroo should be reversed.

But poverty deniers won't look deeper, because they don't want to admit that anyone willing to work could be suffering in the richest country in the world.