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Economic Justice Links


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

 

 

 

 

 

 



Labor Day

EPI:  Workers losing the fruits of their labor

The Progress Report:  What Workers Face This Labor Day

Dick Meister:  Labor Day: Safety First

Harold Meyerson:  Unhappy Labor Day

Will Durst:  Labor Day: A Holiday for Us

Matthew Rothschild:  Unhappy Labor Day

Nelson Lichtenstein:  This Labor Day, Is the World of Work a More Secure and Lawful Place?

Robert Kuttner:  Hard Labor

Brasch:  Labor Day: The Forgotten Holiday

Robert Reich:  The Real News About Jobs and Wages - An Ode to Labor Day

Mark Brenner:  Recession Over? Depends Who You Ask

Robert Gavin:  Jobless plight growing longer

Rowan Wolf:  Let's talk class warfare shall we?

Catherine Rampell:  Teenage Jobless Rate Reaches Record High

Art Levine:  Young Workers in Free Fall: 1/3 Under 35 Live with Parents



ILRF:  Freedom at Work Toolkit

 
Bailout Baron Bubble

Katrina vanden Heuvel:  Big Bucks for Bailout Barons

Sam Pizzigati:  The Executive Pay Bubble: A New Progressive Appraisal

Jennifer Liberto:  Is Health Care the Next 'Bonusgate'?

Public Citizen:  $2.3 Billion Pfizer Settlement Is Not Enough to Deter Organized Crime in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Steve Eder:  Bailed-out bankers to get options windfall: study

Dean Baker:  Reverse Bank Robbery

Jim Hightower:  Holding Wall Street Bankers Accountable

Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati:  There's a Bubble That Still Threatens the Entire American Economy ... and Few Are Talking About It
”Outrageously large rewards for executives give executives an incentive to behave outrageously -- and engage in behaviors that put the rest of us at risk. “
 
Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance

Joshua Holland:  Deep Thought, Health Care Rip-Off Edition
“If the United States could get to a point where it spent twice as much per person as other developed countries for health care that ranked 10th or 15th in terms of outcomes, it would represent just a massive improvement over what we now have.

Think about that for a second. “



Brian Dockstader:  Progressives: Dumb It Down!

Drs. Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein:  Why Obama's Public Option Is Defective, and Why We Need Single-Payer.

Ethel Long-Scott:  Universal Single-Payer Not-For-Profit Health Care For All A Step Toward Eliminating Poverty

Thom Hartmann:  Dear President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal

Sam Smith:  HOW TO SURVIVE THE HEALTH CARE DEBACLE
”The health care debate has come down to a struggle between greed and hypocrisy. The Republicans see health as a prerogative of wealth while the Democrats want just about anything they can call reform in the next election and have sold themselves to the insurance companies in the process. The public is clearly left out in this discussion.”

 

A The Black Commentator Cartoon

Pat Bagley:  Health Bizness

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 Paul Rosenberg :  Paul's Totally Simple Health Care Plan
“(1) Have everyone opposed to socialized medicine sign a waiver, relinquishing their Medicare coverage.
(2) Extend Medicare coverage to everyone currently without health insurance.
(3) Sit back & have a beer. “
 
Isn't Missing an $8 Trillion Housing Bubble a Mistake?

William Greider:  The Deification of Gentle Ben

Robert Borosage:  Wall Street Rules: The Bernanke Reappointment

David Sirota :  How to Talk About the Renomination of Ben Bernanke

Ian Welsh :  Road to Ruin: Bernanke's Reappointment is just the status quo

Patrick Martin:  Bernanke's apologia for the Fed

And from Dean Baker:

GreenspanFest ’09 and the Reappointment of Ben Bernanke

Bernanke Did Help Get Us Into This Mess

Bernanke: He Didn't Just Miss the Housing Bubble

Isn't Missing an $8 Trillion Housing Bubble a Mistake?

 
Dixie Media Versus Unions
By Roger Bybee

"As Atkins’ book vividly shows, another crucial component of genuine democracy has been grievously lacking in the South: independent mass media willing to challenge and investigate corporate power and to serve as the voice of those shut up by bosses, shut out of power and shut down by multinational corporations seeking ever cheaper labor."

Read at In These Times
 
Somebodies and Nobodies

Robert Fuller:  Somebodies and Nobodies: Understanding Rankism
”In a dignitarian society, no one is taken for a nobody and, regardless of role or rank, everyone is accorded equal dignity. “

Pamela Satterwhite:  Waking Up: Freeing Ourselves From Work

Johnny Paycheck:  Take This Job and Shove It


Written by David Allan Coe

 
Taking on South Carolina's anti-union legacy

Greg Love and Ken Love look at the struggle of sanitation workers in Charleston, S.C., who are fighting to organize a union despite anti-union laws.

"As expected, the City Council refused to recognize the workers' right to democratically elect representatives to negotiate on their behalf--specifically, Charleston Local 1199 of the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees-1199B of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)."

"ALTHOUGH THE workers knew that they wouldn't receive justice in the July 21 City Council meeting, they used the opportunity to take their case to the public and build support. The workers, all African Americans, gathered in a room surrounded by large portraits of slave owners and heroes of the Confederacy--including South Carolina Sen. John C. Calhoun, former president Zachary Taylor and Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard. They told stories of management abuse, dangerous and unsanitary conditions, and injury after injury."

Read more at SOCIALISTWORKER.ORG

Click Here to sign the petition

 
Even More Gilded


Huffington Post:  Income Inequality Is At An All-Time High: STUDY

Paul Krugman:  Even More Gilded

Emmanuel Saez:  Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States (PDF)

Emmanuel Saez's home page.

A The Black Commentator Cartoon

Mark Hurwitt:  Unemployment Solution

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Restriction or Legalization? Measuring the Economic Benefits of Immigration Reform
by Peter B. Dixon and Maureen T. Rimmer

"In contrast, legalization of low-skilled immigrant workers would yield significant income gains for American workers and households. Legalization would eliminate smugglers’ fees and other costs faced by [undocumented] immigrants. It would also allow immigrants to have higher productivity and create more openings for Americans in higherskilled occupations. The positive impact for U.S. households of legalization under an optimal visa tax would be 1.27 percent of GDP or $180 billion."

Read more at the Cato Institute
 
We're Busted

The bills are all due and my baby needs shoes
But I'm busted
Cotton is down to a quarter a pound
But I'm busted
I got a cow that's gone dry and a hen that won't lay
A big stack of bills that get bigger each day
The county's gonna haul my belongings away
I'm busted.
--Harlan Howard


MARSHALL AUERBACK:  America's Biggest Economic Problem?
Most of Us are Broke ... Literally

Karen Weise:  Bankruptcy Judges & DOJ Rip Mortgage Companies

Isaiah J. Poole:  '10 Percent' Campaign Against Bank Usury

Ali Ismail :  US cities criminalize homelessness

Ellen Brown:  The Public Option in Banking: How We Can Beat Wall Street at Its Own Game

Cara Parks:  HuffPost's Real Misery Index: Recalculating The Hard Times

 

A The Black Commentator Cartoon

Jianping Fan:  US Government Regulators

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Blame the Washington Post
(and the rest of the Corporate Media)

Dean Baker:  Governor Palin's Crazed Health Care Rant: Blame The Washington Post

Howard Dean:  The Media's Treatment of Palin's Outrageous "Death Panel" Claims

Kathleen Reardon:  The "Death Panel" Already Exists!

Robert Parry:  Palin's 'Death Panel' and GOP Lying

 
Coup R US

John Perkins:  Honduras: Military Coup Engineered By Two US Companies?

Mark Weisbrot:  Who’s in Charge Of Obama’s Foreign Policy?

MIGUEL TINKER SALAS :  The Conservative Counter-Attack in Latin America

Mark Weisbrot:  U.S.- Brokered Mediation Has Failed – It’s Time for Latin America to Take Charge

 
The Silver Bullet

Jeff Ritterman, M.D.:  Nobody's Talking About the Silver Bullet That Could Heal the Economy and Cure Most Social Ills
”The core message is that the countries that distribute their incomes the most equally have the longest life expectancy and the highest quality of life.”

Robert Fuller and Thomas Scheff:  Bleeding Heart Liberals Proven Right: Too Much Inequality Harms a Society

Radley Glasser and Steve Rendall:  For Media, ‘Class War’ Has Wealthy Victims
”Using “class warfare” rhetoric to describe actions in favor of the poor and lower class, while using less pejorative language to describe top-down actions, raises more than a question of balance; that the “class war” is reported as waged nearly exclusively from the bottom up is an indication of corporate media’s own place in the economic struggle.”

Sam Pizzigati:  Rationalizing for the Rich: Cakewalk No More

 
Stuck in the 50's
Even after the minimum wage went up.

Holly Sklar:  Minimum Wage Stuck in the 1950s
”In today's dollars, the 1968 hourly minimum wage adds up to $20,634 a year working full time. The new federal minimum wage of $7.25 comes to just $15,080. That's $ 5,554 in lost wages.”

Leo Gerard:  Workers Rights Are Civil Rights
”...the minimum wage rose by 70 cents to $7.25 an hour, a beggar’s lot really, but still corporations across America decried it. Good times or bad, somehow Wall Streeters walk away with $700,000 bonuses, you know, on top of their salaries, but a 70-cent minimum wage hike is never affordable.”

Dave Johnson:  Free-Market Conservatives Are Just Wrong
”But then there is something you can see in front of your face: whenever the minimum wage is raised, things get better. Things obviously get a little better for the people who work at the minimum wage, and for their families. As this works its way up the food chain things get a little better for the people and stores these workers rent and buy from. But also, studies looking into the effect of what actually happens after the minimum wage is raised show that the net effect is no loss of jobs.”
 
Could the great recession lead to a great revolution?
by Immanuel Ness

"History shows that revolutions must have political movement and a socially compelling goal, with strategic and charismatic leadership that inspires majorities to challenge a perception of fundamental injustice and inequality. A necessary feature is the development of a political ideology rooted in a narrative that legitimates mass collective action, which is indispensable to forcing dominant groups to address social grievances – or to overturning those dominant groups altogether.

Unresponsive rulers risk possible overthrow of their governments. For example, the vision and struggle of a multiracial South Africa was a guiding principle that put an end to the entrenched white-dominated apartheid system.

A second essential element is what Italian philosopher Antonio Negri calls constituent power, the expression of the popular will for democracy – a common theme in nearly all revolutions – through what he calls the multitude."

Read at The Christian Science Monitor
 
Obama's Empire
Brought to you by the Military Industrial Complex(TM).

Catherine Lutz:  Obama's Empire

Chalmers Johnson:  Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire

Richard Clark:  The end of American empire -- closer than we think?

 
Time To Change


John Miller:  The Real Unemployment Rate Hits a 68-Year High


New From YES! Magazine:

Jeff Golden:  3 Ways to Invest in Your Community

David Korten:  Time to declare our independence from Wall Street

Interview with local living economies advocate Judy Wicks :  Protecting What We Love

Michael Shuman:  Invest Locally: Put Your Money Where Your Life Is


From Adbusters:

Ian Bullock:  Fulfillment Paradox
We consume three times more than our grandparents – why aren't we happier?

Tim Jackson:  Thinking the Unthinkable
At what point does economic growth become uneconomic growth?

 

 
Healthcare Now

HEALTHCARE-NOW:  Medicare: Made in America – DC Lobby Day and Rally

Paul Krugman:  Why markets can’t cure healthcare

Kenneth Arrow:  Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Health Care (PDF)

John Stauber:  CMD's Wendell Potter Exposes Health Insurance PR

Sam Stein:  Top Health Care Companies Spent More Than Half Million On Congressional Trips

 
Single-Payer Debate


Isabel Macdonald:  Prescription for a Real Healthcare Debate
How Corporate Media Have Ruined the Health Care Debate

FAIR:  Tell Media: Include Single-Payer in Healthcare Debate

John Nichols:  Hope for Health Reform? Push Single-Payer Now

Paul Krugman:  An Incoherent Truth

Dr. Jon LaPook:  Why You Are Not Stupid If You Don't Understand Health Care Reform

Bill Maher:  New Rule: Not Everything in America Has to Make a Profit

Dean Baker:  The $1 Trillion Health Care Bill: Approximately Half of the Cost of the Iraq War
Also: How Big Is $239 Billion Over 10 Years?

Dennis Kucinich:  Exciting Single Payer Healthcare Update


A The Black Commentator Cartoon

David Fitzsimmons:  Health Care Reform

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The Solution
By Senator Fritz Hollings

"The principal problem with the economy is that it is being offshored. The United States must come in from the cold and engage in the trade war. Fortunately, we can do this by solving the problems now facing Washington."

Read at The Huffington Post
 
Support Charleston Sanitation Workers
Charleston, July 21, 6 PM, Charleston City Council meeting. The Charleston City Sanitation workers will be presenting a resolution to city council calling for the city to recognize their union. This historic effort by public workers to organize for voice at work deserves support, attend if you can. For more information call Mary Moultrie: 843-805-9697
 
Lessons from Hard Times Past

Global Labor Strategies:  Lessons from Hard Times Past--1
”In this and a following post we are going shift the focus away from the macro level to take a look back at how people at the workplace and community level developed direct responses to meet their immediate needs in past crises and how some of these responses are being adapted to today’s realities.  Indeed, in the age of globalization action at the grassroots level remains crucial, and there are many lessons from the past that we can still learn from today.”

Global Labor Strategies:  Lessons from Hard Times Past--2
”When things get desperate, people often find they have to ignore established property relations.”
 
Look Out, Are You About to Join the White Underclass?

By Joe Bageant

“Armchair sociologist that I am, I have a theory about this: Millions of American women are in poverty because they are paid poverty wages. I could be wrong, I often am, but there seems to be a connection between poverty and money.”

“I'm no social scientist. If in my travels and experience in American life I see that tens of millions of Americans being screwed silly by a handful of chiselers at the top, or if I see one percent of Americans earning as much annually as the bottom 45 percent of Americans, then that 45 percent is an underclass. When I see a 70 year old man on his second pacemaker limping through Wal-mart as a "greeter" so he can pay at least something on last winter's heating bill this month, then he is part of an underclass. When I see the humiliated single mom waitress tugging downward on the ridiculously short red plastic skirt she must wear at the Hooter's type joint so her crotch won't show, she's part of an underclass of humiliated and socially oppressed people. Screw the hairsplitting about who qualifies as underclass and what color they are. Just fix it. Or reap the consequences.”

“When you're fucked, you know it. You don't need scientific verification.”

Read at Alternet

 
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