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Americans for a Fair Estate Tax - a broad-based non-partisan coalition that advocates reform instead of repeal of the estate tax.

Center for Economic and Policy Research - CEPR was established to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people?s lives. We work to ensure that the citizenry has the information and analysis that allows it to act effectively in the public interest.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - CBPP is a nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of government policies and programs, with an emphasis on those affecting low- and moderate-income people.

The Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation (CHPP) - CHPP’s goal is to ensure that heirs' receive and exercise the full rights associated with property ownership.

Children's Defense Fund - The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No Child Behind® and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.

Citizens for Tax Justice - A nonpartisan, nonprofit research and advocacy organization dedicated to fair taxation at the federal, state, and local levels.

Economic Policy Institute - The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy.

Global Exchange

Industrial Workers of the World - A union for all people.

The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy - The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) is a non-profit, non-partisan research and education organization that works on government taxation and spending policy issues.

Left Business Observer - Left Business Observer is an 8-page more-or-less monthly newsletter on economics and politics in the U.S. and the world at large.

National Bureau Of Economic Research
- a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works.

National Center on Poverty Law - A legal and policy research, communications, and advocacy organization that provides national leadership in identifying, developing, and supporting creative and collaborative approaches to achieve social and economic justice for low-income people.

National Coalition for the Homeless - Our mission is to end homelessness. We focus our work in the following 4 areas: housing justice, economic justice, health care justice, and civil rights.

National Committee on Pay Equity - A national membership coalition of over 80 organizations working to eliminate sex- and race-based wage discrimination and to achieve pay equity.

National Economic Development and Law Center - A multi-disciplinary legal and planning resource center whose mission is to contribute to the abilities of low-income persons and communities to realize their full potential.

National Low Income Housing Coalition LIHIS - NLIHC provides up-to-date information, formulates policy, and educates the public on housing needs and the strategies for solutions.

National People's Action - NPA is the tool for neighborhood people to take on corporate America and fat cat Washington Politicians.

National Urban League - The mission of the Urban League movement is to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity and power and civil rights.

OMB Watch - OMB Watch was formed in 1983 to lift the veil of secrecy shrouding the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Palmetto Legal Services - Providing free legal services in civil matters to qualified low income residents of South Carolina Midlands.

Responsible Wealth - Responsible Wealth is a national network of businesspeople, investors and affluent Americans who are concerned about deepening economic inequality and are working for widespread prosperity.

United for a Fair Economy - United for a Fair Economy was founded as a "movement support" organization to provide media capacity, face-to-face economic literacy education, and training resources to organizations and individuals who work to address the widening income and asset gap in our country.

 



Economic Justice
News And Commentary


Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

 

 

 

 

 



September 27 - Green Jobs Stimulus

Kari Lydersen:  What the Economy Needs Now Are Good, Green Jobs

Michael Ettlinger and David Madland:  Second Stimulus Needed to Create Jobs and Revive Our Economy

Press Associates Inc.:  Steel Workers, Allies Launch "Green Jobs" Campaign

Don Hopey:  Environmentalists, Unions Call For Green-Jobs Plan

Bill Scher:  The Big Idea In Denver: Green-Collar Jobs
 
September 26 - Other Bailout Ideas

David A. Love, JD:  What’s Good for Wall Street Is Only Good for Wall Street

Michael Winship:  Wanted: Another Franklin Roosevelt

Chuck Collins and Dedrick Muhammad:  10 Ways to Bail Out Wall Street (and Main Street) Without Soaking Taxpayers in Debt

Hillary Rosen:  Four Simple Things to Look for in a Bailout Plan That Isn't a Taxpayer Rip-off

Dean Baker:  Progressive Conditions for a Bailout

Robert Kuttner:  Thinking Outside Paulson's Box

Robert Weissman:  Getting Wall Street Pay Reform Right

Katrina vanden Heuvel:  Give Main Street a Fair Shake

Kevin G. Hall:  Is the Bailout Needed? Many Economists Say "No"

Nomi Prins:  Will the Government Bailout Work?

Eric Lotke:  Building Our Way Out

Arianna Huffington:  Bailout Bill: Obama Needs to Lead, Not Be One of the Bailout Bipartisan Musketeers

Robert Kuttner:  Fishing in Troubled Waters

Mary Kane:  Mortgage Solution Missing in Bailout Plan

William Greider:  Show Us the Money

aaronbav:  Why do none of the "bailout" proposals help the UNEMPLOYED

Mark Green:  Bailout Alternative

Tula Connell:  CEOs Get Bailed Out. Workers Get Sold Out

AlterNet Staff:  Bailout Backlash: Five Surprising Things That Happened on Thursday

RALPH NADER:  Who Will Show Some Backbone Against the Bailout?

David Nather:  Obama Calls for More Openness in Congressional Spending Process

SEP National Committee:  The socialist answer to the financial crisis

Douglas Smyth:  Secure Mortgages, Not Banks, Not Speculators!

Alison Raphael:  Only Real Fix Is Regulatory, Analysts Say
 
September 25 - War Economy

 

 

From offthewahl.com

Andrew Wahl:  It’s the war economy, stupids

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Dana Hedgpeth:  $13 Billion in Iraq Aid Wasted or Stolen, Ex-Investigator Says

Frida Berrigan:  No Recession for Arms Sales

Stephen Pizzo:  Chicken Little Was Right

Paul B. Farrell:  'America's Outrageous War Economy!'

 
September 23 - The Sting


William Greider:  Paulson Bailout Plan a Historic Swindle

Paul Krugman:  No deal

Ian Welsh:  Hank Paulson’s Raid on the Treasury

Kevin G. Hall:  Can You Trust a Wall Street Veteran With a Wall Street Bailout?

Dean Baker:  Bush Brings WMD Line to Wall Street

John Nichols:  Bernie Sanders: Bailout Transfers Wealth - Upward

Otto Spengler:  Let's Stop the Greatest Theft in the History of Humankind

AlterNet Staff:  10 Things You Should Know About Bush's Trillion Dollar Fleecing Plan

David Sirota:  BLOOMBERG NEWS: Paulson Plan To Mostly Benefit His Old Cronies at Goldman Sachs

Campaign for America's Future:  Urgent: Stop The $700B Blank Check!

 

 

A The Black Commentator Cartoon

Paresh Nath:  Bail Out Freddie, Fannie

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September 20 - Meltdown Politics

Dennis Rahkonen:  That great anti-capitalist revolutionary . . . John McCain?

Paul Krugman:  McCain on banking and health

Arianna Huffington:  How Obama Can Demonstrate Real Leadership on the Economic Crisis

Terence Hunt:  Obama: Fire the Whole Trickle Down, on Your Own, Look the Other Way Crowd

Over the Hill Oracles:  The Obama-Fannie-Freddie Connection

Matthew Rothschild:  Who Should Obama Turn to for Advice During the Economic Crisis?

Robert Scheer:  McCain Enabled Our Economic Meltdown

E.J. Dionne:  McCain’s Political Games Can’t Compete With an Economic Meltdown

 
September 19 - Reality

Updated September 20.

William Pfaff:  Reality Catches Up to the Free Market

Lawrence R. Velvel:  A Crisis of American Capitalism

Amy Goodman:  Wall Street Socialists

Matthew Rothschild:  Wall Street Socialism

Michael Leon Guerrero:  The U.S. Economy Is Socialism for the Rich

Michael Chavers:  Who Says Bush Isn't A Socialist

Conversation with Eric Hobsbawm:  The current importance of Marx, 150 years after the Grundrisse

JohnPeebles :  Capitalism kills itself

Richard Clark:  The American road to socialism (for the rich)

 
September 18 - MIC 2.0

Frida Berrigan:  Military Industrial Complex 2.0: Cubicle Mercenaries, Subcontracting Warriors, and Other Phenomena of a Privatizing Pentagon

Video:  Joseph E. Stiglitz on the The three trillion dollar war

Tom Engelhardt:  Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, The Pentagon Takes Over

Terry Hughes:  ECON 101, (OR, IT'S THE WAR, STUPID)

John Little:  THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF WAR

Morgan Strong:  Making Money on a New Cold War
 
September 16 - Beat the Press
Quotes from Dean Baker's blog.

"...it would be nice to have someone on NPR occasionally who was not surprised by the collapse of the largest housing bubble in the history of the world and the financial crisis that would inevitably follow."

"When [Alan Greenspan] said that, "This is a once-in-a-half-century, probably once-in-a-century type of event," it might have been worth pointing out that he was the arsonist who created the conditions for the extraordinary set of events hitting Wall Street."

"Workers probably know that they are not getting ahead, even without the media pointing it out."

"Of course lobbyists never publicly say that Congress should do "X" because it will make us richer. They always say do "X" because it is good for the country. Reporters should know this."

"The Wall Street Journal turned to a number of economists who were surprised by the housing crash that led to the need for a bailout of Fannie and Freddie, to tell its readers about the impact of the bailout on the federal budget deficit."

"This morning, NPR again was unable to find any economists who thought that the bursting of this bubble would continue to be a serious problem, even after the federal takeover of Fannie and Freddie."

Read more at The American Prospect

 
September 14 - More F & F

Richard C. Cook:  The Real Reasons for the Fannie Mae/Freddi Mac Takeover

The Nation:  Backward Bailout

Barry Grey:  US bailout of mortgage giants sets stage for wider financial crisis

John Chan:  Chinese economists warn of the “biggest adjustment” in 30 years

Robert Brent Toplin:  Blame Ronald Reagan For Our Current Economic Crisis

Robert Scheer:  McCain and the Mortgage Meltdown

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson:  Stuff Happens: The Mortgage Bailout and the Federal Budget

James Ridgeway:  Is the Fannie/Freddie Bailout "Socialism"?
 
September 10 - Fannie and Freddie

Carolyn Patmon:  Joining The Corporate Bail-Out Receiving Line

Bill Van Auken:  US government takes over mortgage giants to stave off financial meltdown

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart:  Freddie and Fannie Bail-Out: Our Foreign Masters Have Spoken

ALJAZEERA:  Markets soar after US bail-out

Robert Kuttner:  Nationalize Fannie Mae? It Worked Until It Was Privatized

Kevin Drum:  The Bailout

AFP:  McCain-Palin promise no bailouts like Freddie-Fannie

Nicholas von Hoffman:  State Capitalism Comes to America

Robert Kuttner:  Little Orphan Fannie

Ann Kramer :  Privatize profits and socialize loss? Time for taxpayers to profit too....

AP:  Obama objects to severance for ousted CEOs

Marisa McQuilken:  Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Bailout Pulled in Dozens of Lawyers

John Berlau:  Fannie and Freddie’s government ‘takeover’ — truth in advertising at long last

Nouriel Roubini:  Comrades Bush, Paulson and Bernanke Welcome You to the USSRA

CNBC.com:  US Is "More Communist than China": Jim Rogers

IPA:  Causes of Fannie's Collapse -- and How to Stop the Speculators

Real News:  US Mortgage Giants Nationalized

Paul Krugman:  The Power of De

Dean Baker:  Statement on the Conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Dean Baker:  Fannie and Freddie Go Under: Yes, This Was Predictable

Dr. Ellen Hodgson Brown:  US Mortgage Crisis: Fannie and Freddie. Give Away the Farm

Democracy Now:  US Bails Out Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac

Barry Grey:  Record corporate bailout reveals the bankruptcy of American capitalism

 
September 11 - Debt Crisis

A must read from CounterPunch:

Mike Whitney interviews Economist Michael Hudson:  The Worsening Debt Crisis: Who Got Us into This Mess and What are the Real Political Options?

"A failure to provide investment guarantees to foreigners would thwart the continuation of U.S. overseas military spending! And once foreigners are bailed out, the Treasury has to bail out domestic American investors as well, simply for political reasons."

"[The government] has created a “conservatorship” (a word that my spellchecker does not recognize). So the bailout of Fannie and Freddie looks like the Republicans are trying to play the financial just-pretend game simply until they leave office in February, after which time they can blame the failure of the “miracle of compound debt interest” on the incoming Democratic Congress."

"[Modern debt peonage] is what happens when wage earners are obliged to turn over all their income above basic subsistence needs to the FIRE [finance, insurance and real estate] sector – mainly for debt service but also to pay for compulsory insurance and, most recently, the tax burden that finance and property have shifted off themselves."

"The bottom line is that the economic vocabulary was turned into double-think."

Dean Baker:  The Housing Bubble Villains Deny Responsibility

Barbara Ehrenreich:  Suicide Spreads as One Solution to the Debt Crisis

Jane Smiley:  It's the Economists, Stupid!

 
September 8 - The Anti-Economy


 

Charleston Really REALLY Free Market

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Chris Carlsson:  Building an Anti-Economy

Layla Aslani:  Create Your Own Workplace

USW:  USW to 'Adopt' 3,000 Striking Workers' Families in Mexico

Mark Engler:  There Is an Alternative to Corporate Rule

Joseph Danison:  Fixing the system: There must be some way out of here

Gary Gardner:  Microfinance Surging

Ben Block:  In Windy West Texas, An Economic Boom

 
September 6 - August Unemployment

Dean Baker:  Unemployment Jumps to 6.1 Percent, Women Hit Hardest

Bill Van Auken:  US jobless rate soars as foreclosures break new record

CBPP:  STATEMENT BY CHAD STONE, CHIEF ECONOMIST, ON THE AUGUST EMPLOYMENT REPORT

Ellen Goodman:  The New Equality - in Unemployment

Peter S. Goodman:  A Hidden Toll on Employment: Cut to Part Time

Jill Hussein C.:  Hidden Unemployment Increasing

 
September 5 - Doctor's Orders

Daina Saib:  Doctor's Orders: Health Coverage for Everyone

Maggie Mahar:  Earning Less and Dying Younger: How the Growing Strain on America's Middle Class Is Pummeling Our Health

Chris Hedges:  If We Want Good Health Care from Obama, We Better Push Him to Change His Plan

James V. Bertolone:  Make U.S. healthier and wealthier

Niko Karvounis:  Universal Health Coverage Is No Silver Bullet

Isaiah J. Poole:  Krugman: Why The Health Care Battle Is Key

Bill Scher:  This Week In "Insurance Company Rules": Forced To Raise Funds For Sick Friends

Niko Karvounis:  Medical Tourism: The Big Picture

Chris Farrell:  Health Care: The Real Fiscal Nightmare

Jared Bernstein:  Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance: What to Expect and Why It Really Matters

The Economist:  Globalisation and health care

Maggie Mahar:  No Wonder Our Hospitals Are a Disaster -- People with Marketing Degrees Are Running Them

Isaiah J. Poole:  Confront Rising Drug Prices

The August 10 update:  Third World Health Care

 

 
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Labor Day - 2008


 

A The Black Commentator Cartoon

Mark Hurwitt:  The Dubya and Dick Labor Day

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AFL-CIO
Terrance Heath:  Support the Employee Free Choice Act


Peter Dreier:  On Labor Day, A Call To Restore U.S. Workers' Rights To Organize

Mark Weisbrot:  Employee Free Choice Act Could Be Biggest Reform Since New Deal

David Moberg:  Unions Create Their Own MoveOn

Rep. George Miller:  The Department of Labor: A Damage Assessment

Global Labor Strategies:  The Future of Work: Where the Labor Movement Is Heading

Harold Meyerson:  Labor: United and Divided

Mike Parker:  Are Industrial Unions Better than Craft? Not Always.

Global Labor Strategies:  Labor's Dead: Long Live Labor!

Solidarity Education Center & The Center for Labor Renewal:  A Southern Region Solidarity School

EPI:  The State of Working America 2008/2009

PR Watch:  Anti-Union Groups Run Orwellian Ads

Joel S. Hirschhorn:  Working Poor Unready to Revolt

Traven Leyshon:  Labor on the Ropes

Seth Colter Walls:  Union Officials: Obama Should Hit Harder On Economy, Not Worry About "Class War" Label

Bobbo's blog:  John McCain: Throwing the Working Class Under a Bus

Ylan Q. Mui:  Quebec Wal-Mart Workers Unionize

Colin Barr:  This time, wage slaves can't revolt

Lauren:  Low-Wage Workers: A Look at Underpaid Americans

David Bacon and Warren Mar:  Rising Debate Shakes America's Largest Union

Tula Connell:  Chamber of Commerce Staff Gets Drunk, Blames Workers

Joe Atkins:  Will Toyota's 'way' find favor with its workers?

Phil Mattera:  13 Workers Dead: A Look at the "Shocking" and "Disgraceful" Imperial Sugar Tragedy

Barry Healy:  Class War and the Anglican Schism

Carol D. Leonnig:  Lawmaker Pledges to Block "Secret Rule"

Sarah Sattelmeyer and Margy Waller:  The American Workplace Is Stuck in the '50s

Antoine Lerougetel and Pierre Mabut:  France: Unions collaborate with employers, government to deregulate working hours

Roger Horowitz:  Bloody Work: How Government, Industry Play the Numbers Game on Meatpackers' Safety

 
August 29 - The Census

Paul Krugman: Feeling No Pain

Arloc Sherman, Robert Greenstein, and Sharon Parrott: For Poverty Rate and Non-Elderly Median Income, Worst Performance on Record For Any Six Years of Economic Growth

Bread for the World: New Government Poverty Figures Paint Incomplete Picture of Struggling Low-Income Families

Barry Grey: Census report shows rising poverty in US

 
August 27 - School Starts
Updated August 28

Kesi Foster:  Community College Students Need Not Apply: Our Reward for Bailing Out the Banks

JONATHAN D. GLATER:  That Student Loan, So Hard to Shake

Nicholas von Hoffman:  The 2008 Student Loan Blues

Whitney Malkin:  Struggling College Students Turn to Food Banks

Leonard Doyle:  Free College for Poorest Students Puts Ivy League to Shame

Ted Rall:  Student Loans Crunch Starves Greedy Colleges

See the July 2 update:  Student Loans

 
August 23 - No Butter

Morgan Strong:  Making Money on a New Cold War

dday:  Georgia-Russian Conflict Great for U.S. Weapons Manufacturers

George Kenney:  All Guns, No Butter

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart:  How to Balance the Federal Budget
Hint: Get out of Iraq and cut the bloated Pentagon budget.

More in the July 28 update:  The Troops Come Last

 
August 22 - Broken Bridges

Sara Robinson:  Acts of Creative Destruction: Rebuilding America for the 21st Century

Joanna Guldi,:  We've Got to Rebuild America's Crumbling Infrastructure

ERIKA LOVLEY:  GOP hopes to skirt Minn. bridge issue

Sara Robinson:  Broken Bridge Conservatism, Redux

Rick Perlstein:  "Like a Third World Country"
 
August 21 - Human Rights

Peter Rachleff:  Immigrant Rights Are Labor Rights

Luis Gutierrez and Joe Baca:  Mr. President, Stop These Raids on Our Communities

Brennan Center for Justice:  US Violates International Law by Failing to Enforce Laws Protecting Employment Rights of Mexican Workers Legally in the US

JULIA PRESTON:  After Iowa Raid, Immigrants Fuel Labor Inquiries

Joshua Holland:  Want to Win the Immigration Debate? Start Talking About Illegal Jobs

Roxana Hegeman:  Kansas Targets Employers Who Don't Pay Immigrant Workers

Alex Balk:  Ungrateful Urchins Turning Their Backs On The Country That Tacitly Welcomed Them Into Its Kitchens, Poultry Factories

See the August 8 update:  Battle Lines

AFL-CIO
 
August 20 - Are We There Yet?

Mike Whitney:  The Greenback Blues: Something's Gotta Give

Keith Fitz-Gerald:  Jim Rogers Predicts Bigger Financial Shocks Loom

Jan Dahinten:  Large U.S. Bank Collapse Seen Ahead

Serge Truffaut:  The Great Accomplice

James K. Galbraith:  How to Burn the Speculators

Andre Damon:  US: Retail sales fall as tax stimulus wears off

Michael Grynbaum:  Wholesale Prices Jumped in July

David Michael Green:  The Fire This Time?

Richard C. Cook:  Inflation and the New World Order

Roland Michel Tremblay:  Are recessions just a transfer of money, are stock market crashes artificially created?

Digby:  Rand To The Rescue

Robert B. Reich:  Is the Game About to Stop?

Susan J. Douglas:  Debt: Our 9 Trillion Pound Gorilla

Peter S. Goodman:  Slump Moves From Wall Street to Main Street

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart:  An Empire of Debt -- Collapsing Under Its Own Weight

Robert B. Reich:  The American Recession and the World's Emerging Economies

Robert Reich:  Darker Days Ahead?

Greg Palast:  Better Kiss Your Abe ‘Goodbye’

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart:  The Great Debt Crisis Begins

Patricia L Johnson:  Are We There Yet?
 
August 18 - Economists

Stephen Mihm:  Meet the Economist Who Thinks We're Doomed

PAUL KRUGMAN:  It’s the Economy Stupor

Dean Baker:  Swift Boat Economics

James K. Galbraith:  A Last Word: What is to be Done?

Thomas I. Palley:  Social Origins of the American Corporate Predator State

Nouriel Roubini:  The perfect storm leading to a global recession

Dean Baker:  Let's Get Down to Gas Tax

Mark Weisbrot:  Senator McCain Has a Serious "Knowledge Gap": It's an Issue

James K. Galbraith:  The GOP's December Surprise

Joseph Stiglitz:  A Deficit of Leadership

Paul Krugman:  Don't Cry for Me, America

Paul Krugman:  The Comeback Continent
 
August 16 - The Mad Middle Class

Isaiah J. Poole:  New Signs Of A Middle-Class Collapse

Barbara Peterson:  Surviving the Middle Class Crash

Isaiah J. Poole:  The Mad, Mad Middle Class

Charles McMillion:  More Stress for Households Deep in Debt

Shawn Fremstad, Rebecca Ray, Liz Chimienti, and John Schmitt:  Movin’ On Up: Reforming America’s Social Contract to Provide a Bridge to the Middle Class

Harold Meyerson:  The Middle Is Falling Out of the Economy

Sara Robinson:  Stealing Our Future II: Democracy, Fear, and the War on the Middle Class
 
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