ALICE creates a view of life in America
a recent find…… I recently stumbled on ALICE – Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed at United for ALICE. Of the 132,530,794 households in the U.S. […]
Capitalism
Expanding on Robert Reich’s Pledges for Democrats – there’s a lot to like, but we can improve on it
Reich published What Democrats Must Pledge to America – Ten ways to make America more affordable on 12.5.2025. Here are the bold titles for the […]
The Billionairification of America – democracy is dead in the US
The Billionairification of America The Forbes billionaires list in 2019 numbered 607 in the US. By April 2024, the number had grown by 34% to […]
The Extraction Economy – Private Equity in Action
Elizabeth Warren on private equity predators Private equity(PE) firms are the pinnacle of the great shift in the American economy over the past 50 years […]
My Children Will Be Better Off Than Me – a series on American values
A cherished part of our national culture has long been the belief that parents can improve their children’s future through better education, hard work, and […]
The Health Insurance Disaster – beyond the end of ACA tax credits
There has been much talk about the 4.8 million people (1.4 million in Florida and 750,000 in New York state) who will lose their Obamacare […]
The K-shaped world we live in – the top 20% are doing well, everyone else, not so good….
My research into the enormous explosion of wealth and income inequality in the US over the past fifty years be summarized as the $79 trillion […]
How the Rich & Corporations Control Government – a fifty year story……
In my research over the past ten years into why the US looks the way it does, early on I noticed that, despite the rhetoric […]
Why taxing the rich & corporations is not the only step we need to take – reversing the top-down class warfare
Many on the left are calling for increasing taxes on the rich and corporations to fund the government while reducing the burden on most Americans. […]
Abundance by Klein and Thompson – a book review
I read Abundance as part of my participation in the Hudson Area Library’s Nonfiction Book Group. Abundance offers many telling comments about our situation. In […]