by Linda Beale If Europe Adds a Financial Transactions Tax, Will We Follow? Has the time come for the US to impose a financial transactions tax? It would have several…

…The Spin on Tires It would be nice to have economic literacy in journalism. Take this morning’s story in the New York Times about a pair of tire factories in…

…increase an already devastingly problematic inequality that has resulted in lower quality of life for most Americans on many different areas from literacy to access to health care to teenage…

…literacy-impaired cohort, Jeffrey Goldberg, are lamenting that the kids are not being taught to be cannon fodder, but will wait for Susan of Texas (whose current marvelous takedown of Publicity…

…for Economic and Entrepreneurial Literacy, 2009), despite the fact that the subprime mortgage crisis was a significant contributor to the economic recession that began in 2008, and almost certainly affected…

…in the data that seem to point to a more-distant process. For instance, Renee Rubin, an associate professor in the department of language, literacy, and intercultural studies at the University…

…Heart Taxes (see, e.g., Baby, Taxes Drive Your Car, regarding federal funding for satellites making the GPS system possible) Kay Bell, The Good Side of Taxes The Tax Literacy Project…

…literacy training, and a have a program that came out of a program from the CGI a few years ago, in cooperation with the World Bank and Nike, to train…

Via alea‘s Twitter feed, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency—the people who were specifically selected by the company to regulate AIG—has launched a Financial Literacy campaign. (Full disclosure:…

…taxation starting here, moving to the second one, moving to the final post. Then you can go here and read Linda Beale’s appeal for support of eduction regarding tax literacy….