Friday, January 15, 2016

Economics and Corruption related links 011516




5 of the Biggest Economic Lies Pushed by the Washington Post


 

America’s Forgotten Formula for Economic Equality


 

Drive By: How companies like Uber work around regulations, avoid paying taxes, and shaft their workers


 

How Defunding Derails Our Infrastructure


 

On Pivoting: How We Talk About Labor


 

Confessions of a For-Profit College Inspector


 

Making the Case for a Good-Enough Diploma


 

The Future of Work: This Is Your Job in 20 Years


 

Breaking Out of Inequality’s Rhetorical Trap


 

What We Know Now


 

The Political Roots of Widening Inequality


 

How Gilded Ages End: Protecting democracy from oligarchic dominance is, once again, a central imperative of American politics.


 

The Wealth Problem: Aspiring to own a home and pursue an education are quintessentially American ideals. It's time to make those dreams accessible again.


 

Senior Class: America's Unequal Retirement


 

Raising Wages From the Bottom Up: Three ways city and state governments can make the difference.


 

Poised for Prosperity? Drawing the right lessons from the past quarter-century


 

The Real Story of the American Family


 

It's All About the Money: How America became preoccupied with higher education’s bottom line. 


 

Has Child Care Policy Finally Come of Age? The Democrats may now be turning to a long-stalled agenda for working parents.


 

How the Bankers Destroyed the Dream: The mortgage collapse was an entirely avoidable crisis—a brew of elite financial lobbying and bad policy.


 

The Opportunity Dodge: It's an empty promise—because the chance to thrive will never be good amid great inequalities.


 

Turns Out, Raising Restaurant Workers’ Wages Won’t Cause Job Loss


 

Putting Financial News – Good or Bad – In Context


 

The Sneaky Way Austerity Got Sold to the Public Like Snake Oil


 

How the Weekend was Won


 

U.S. The Only Advanced Economy That Does Not Require Employers To Provide Paid Vacation Time, Report Says


 

Barack Obama says United States only developed country without paid maternity leave


 

When Union Membership Was Rising


 

Union decline and rising inequality in two charts


 

Union membership has halved since 1980


 

5 Facts About Overseas Outsourcing: Trend Continues to Grow as American Workers Suffer


 

Outsourcing to China Cost U.S. 3.2 Million Jobs Since 2001


 

The Offshore Outsourcing of American Jobs: A Greater Threat Than Terrorism


 

It's the Inequality, Stupid


 

Chris Hedges The Illusion of Freedom The longer fantasy is substituted for reality the faster we sleepwalk toward oblivion


 

NYT: How the wealthiest Americans have lobbied for, and built, their own tax protection racket


 

Gov. Wolf Prevents School Closings with Line-Item Budget Veto


 

You can find more information about the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on your federal income tax at this IRS ACA site: http://www.irs.gov/Affordable-Care-Act .

 

Good luck running against this in 2016, Republicans


 

How to Cover the One Percent


 

Parking the Big Money


 

Challenging the Oligarchy


 

Reimagining Journalism: The Story of the One Percent


 

What South Carolinians Think About Ryan’s Poverty Forum


 

What Candidates Should Say about Poverty and Opportunity at Ryan’s Forum


 

The Best Poverty Journalism in 2015: TalkPoverty Radio’s Picks


 

Raising the New York state minimum wage to $15 by July 2021 would lift wages for 3.2 million workers


 

Minimum Wage Tracker


 

The real American retirement crisis


 

Over 50, Female and Jobless Even as Others Return to Work


 

Can I Just Tell You: Problems Money Can't Fix


 

The CEO of your company has probably already earned your 2016 salary this year


 

Why Skills Are Not Enough to Land a Job: Handwringing about the devaluing of high-school diplomas is missing the point.


 

There's Something Critical Missing In The Fight For A $15 Minimum Wage

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