Cross-post: A human economy for the twenty-first century
…ideological hegemony of mainstream economics, especially since the 1980s, has been holed below the water. This is not to say that the free marketers have been silenced, but public acceptance…
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Bush Tells Urban League Employment is Rising After George Bush snubbed the NAACP, he appears before the Urban League with another partisan attack at the Democrats with lines like: “I…
Urban Job Markets Under Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II In a nice bit of work, G. Scott Thomas of American City Business Journals (a non-partisan straight news entity…
Julie Boonstra Says That Because Obama Lied to Her, She’s Entitled to Lie to Others. [UPDATED]
…all people, for heaven’s sake–knows that access to necessary healthcare is not a semantics game. Yet she’s playing one, with others’ lives. —- UPDATE: Here’s an exchange between reader Urban…
Real wage stagnation, year 41
…$294.96 $295.22 $295.69 $295.08 Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers 229.180 230.919 231.233 231.344 Average hourly earnings $20.00 $20.35 $20.41 $20.50 Average weekly hours 33.8 33.5…
Government dependence
…and displayed in the news: Before it was anything else, the neoconservative movement was a theory of the urban crisis. As a reaction to the urban riots of the 1960s,…
A Question For Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee Members to Ask Sri Srinivasan If Obama Nominates Him to Fill Scalia’s Seat
…is no branch of government, federal or state, no public institution, no public entity that is more permeated with elitism than this country’s courts. None. None. —- ADDENDUM: Reader Urban…
I finally agree with (much of) a Krugman criticism of the Sanders campaign. (And why I’m glad he made the criticism in the way he did.) [Clarification added 2/20 at 11:05 a.m.; update added 2/21 at 9:40 a.m.]
…a.m. ____ UPDATE: An exchange between reader Urban Legend and me in the Comments thread this morning: Urban Legend February 21, 2016 2:49 am I am strongly pro-Clinton in the…
How I answered a survey from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee about the Merrick Garland nomination
…he will be the only member of the court who does. ____ ADDENDUM: Reader Urban Legend and I had the following exchange in the Comments thread: Urban Legend March 19,…
Gentrification
by Peter Dorman (originally published at Econospeak) Gentrification This is the bane of urban development, right? Old housing stock, built for yesterday’s working class, is spiffed up and priced far…