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Economy Economy, People Before Profits
Getting paid for overtime May 1, 2004
Hey, Where did Wal-Mart come from? Jan 17, 2004
The costs of perpetual war Mar 20, 2004
The politics of indices Jan 24, 2004
$$$ for rich, 0 for workers Oct 27, 2001
2005 budget feeds ‘beast’ Feb 7, 2004
28 million surviving on food stamps April 12, 2008
9/11 came on top of suffering NY economy Dec 22, 2001
A closer look at price indexing, oil supplies June 4, 2005
A look behind the housing crisis Sept. 1, 2007
A new Gilded Age: The rich get richer, working families get debt Jan. 19, 2008
A perfect storm on pensions Oct 16, 2004
A Tale of Two Bankruptcies Oct. 8, 2005
A Texas trucker on fuel prices May 20, 2006
Aging population no cause for crisis July 23, 2005
Airport screeners protest firings Dec 15, 2001
Alabama setback Nov 1, 2003
Another fast track to the unemployment line? Feb. 10, 2007
Another reason to vote Nov 2, 2002
Are guaranteed pensions a thing of the past? Sept. 2, 2006
As final NAFTA rules kick in, Mexicans worry Dec. 22, 2007
August unemployment report: Things are NOT getting better Sep 21, 2002
Auto CEOs drool over Delphi’s takeaways July 28, 2007
Auto company CEOs rolling in dough May 19, 2007
Bailout goes to Wall Street, not Main Street March 22, 2008
Banks bilk homebuyers, cities say Jan. 19, 2008
Banks’ profit drive spurs student loan scandal April 21, 2007
Behind the headlines Mar 16, 2002
Big lies, little lies, & statistics Jan 15, 2005
Big money vs. workers’ rights April 21, 2007
Billionaires For Bush Celebrate Tax Day Daily Online
Billionaires take a hit, but still soar Mar 30, 2002
Bloody fiasco must end May 8, 2004
Board tackles health care, globalization Jun 15, 2002
Boost minimum wage, right to organize Jan. 20, 2007
Bound and dug in debt and glut Oct. 7, 2006
Brooks swings and misses Sept. 16, 2006
Budgets of mass destruction Feb 21, 2004
Building Trades Union protest non-union job site Mar 16, 2002
Bush administration twists truth on jobs Nov 15, 2003
Bush agenda is a ‘cloud over civilization’ Jul 24, 2004
Bush budget proposal: Feed the Pentagon, starve the people Feb. 9, 2008
Bush budget: billions for greedy, bones for needy Feb. 10, 2007
Bush opens forests to logging Jan 19, 2002
Bush plan for Social Security: divide and profit Nov 13, 2004
Bush policies provoke city budget crisis Dec 13, 2003
Bush proposals on welfare threatens all Mar 16, 2002
Bush summit: All show, no go Aug 17, 2002
Bush’s dis-ownership society Sept 18, 2004
Bush’s ownership society: No taxes for owners, only workers Sept 25, 2004
Bush’s reckless, imperial foreign policy Oct. 14, 2006
Bush’s ‘four horsemen’ of economic policy Dec 4, 2004
Bush’s ‘working retirement’: Work till you drop Mar 26, 2005
Calif. education and health on chopping block May 29, 2004
Calif. legislators respond to mortgage crisis Dec. 8, 2007
Can we reindustrialize? June 16, 2007
Capitalism incapable of reversing environmental crisis May 19, 2007
Capitalist ‘democracy’ — Life in the former Soviet Union Dec. 17, 2005
Causes of the current oil price shocks May 6, 2006
Child poverty and the Bush budget Mar 22, 2003
Child poverty: U.S. leads industrialized nations with appallingly high rates July 29, 2006
China, India and class July 30, 2005
Civil rights leaders demand foreclosure halt Dec. 15, 2007
Class in America July 2, 2005
Cleveland unites in fight with LTV Dec 8, 2001
Congress rejects minimum wage hike July 1, 2006
Congress sustains farm subsidies Feb 23, 2002
Congress turns its back on long-term jobless Jun 14, 2003
Contra figures resurface to target Venezuela Apr 30, 2005
Corn, chickens and capitalism July 28, 2007
Corporate thievery: A new political moment Jul 20, 2002
Could you be Enron-ed? Jul 6, 2002
Crafty election economicsCraftyelectioneconomics Jan 31, 2004
Crisis at LTV Dec 1, 2001
Crisis of capitalist globalization April 21, 2007
Cure for summer job blues June 30, 2007
Debt bondage Debt bondage Apr 19, 2003
Decent paying jobs still elusive Nov 29, 2003
Delphi’s bankruptcy abuse challenged April 22, 2006
Devil in the details Jan 29, 2005
Earth’s last best hope May 26, 2007
Economic consequences of the elections Nov 23, 2002
Economic issues in the elections Oct. 26, 2002
Economic outlook is dim unless workers have a say March 29, 2008
Economic recovery? Not for African Americans Aug 10, 2002
Education not incarceration Feb 9, 2002
Enron and the class struggle Jan 19, 2002
Enron hearing exposes big banks Jul 27, 2002
Enron: Feeding at the public trough Mar 30, 2002
Enron’s thievery hit India hard Mar 2, 2002
Ethanol, energy and profits March 24, 2007
Expensive oil and imperialist war Nov 6, 2004
Falling profits and war Aug 2, 2003
Family farms and the estate tax Jun 22, 2002
Faulty economics and the French elections May 5, 2007
Feeling exploited? It’s the system! Mar 27, 2004
Flat world? Friedman on globalization Sept. 17, 2005
Flim-flam financing in the housing Industry Sept. 23, 2006
Food crisis in Africa Feb 1, 2003
Foreclosures point to systemic crisis April 14, 2007
From Charles Dickens to George W. Bush Nov 9, 2002
Gary meeting discusses economic agenda for Blacks March 25, 2006
Global manifest destiny and U.S. ‘base mania’ Jan 22, 2005
Global unions aims Day of Action at WTO Nov 3, 2001
GM cuts 25,000: Bad news for whole working class June 18, 2005
Go where the money is: tax the rich April 7, 2007
Good for GM (and Ford), bad for the rest of us Feb. 2, 2008
Goodyear workers strike for safety, jobs, health care Dec. 2, 2006
GOP demands tax payoff for minimum wage Feb. 3, 2007
GOP peddling same old failed policies Dec 1, 2001
Grassroots defense of Social Security deepens Mar 26, 2005
Great Game for oil & power Mar 13, 2004
Greenspan accused of ‘theft’ Mar 6, 2004
Greenspan, Bernanke, and the Fed Dec. 3, 2005
Halabi responds to Cato charges Oct 9, 2004
Halliburton moves top office to Dubai March 24, 2007
Hardship in America Oct 20, 2001
Healthy planet a low priority for capitalism May 12, 2007
Henry Kissinger Dec 7, 2002
Hightower denounces corporate looting Oct 20, 2001
Home foreclosures are now at 2 million per year: What you can do to save homes Dec. 1, 2007
House and Senate OK budget that falls short on human needs Dec. 22, 2007
House moves to cut college costs July 21, 2007
House passes bonanza for drug companies Jul 6, 2002
Housing bubble threatening to burst July 15, 2006
Housing crisis in Chicago Mar 23, 2002
Huge oil profits linked to economic slowdown Aug. 5, 2006
Illinois students fired up over funding cuts May 11, 2002
Inequality’s cause: loss of power Nov. 4, 2006
Iraq: the stench of oil Sept 4, 2004
Iraqi unions reject foreign control of oil Dec. 23, 2006
Is immigration the problem? April 28, 2007
It’s hurricane season for workers Sep 28, 2002
It’s official! Economy in recession Dec 1, 2001
It’s still the economy Jan 4, 2003
Job gains weakest in 2 years June 11, 2005
Job report masks signs of trouble Jun 12, 2004
Jobs, wages and the Goldilocks economy Apr 9, 2005
Kaiser workers win back pay in NLRB ruling Jun 1, 2002
Katrina – oil companies are the real looters Sept. 24, 2005
Labor law ‘reform’ in France April 8, 2006
Last of the big time spenders Apr 20, 2002
Latest jobs report: Good for Wall Street, bad for workers Sept. 9, 2006
Latin America and U.S. free trade Dec 8, 2001
Latinos and the recession Oct 5, 2002
Lawmakers: recession already here for millions Jan. 26, 2008
Lies, the U.S. budget, and democracy Mar 19, 2005
Life and debt in the USA Oct. 22, 2005
Local governments fight foreclosure crisis Feb. 2, 2008
Low-income renters in crisis Apr 6, 2002
March unemployment report: More bad news Apr 12, 2003
Marx and critics Mar 8, 2003
Marxism and prices Jun 7, 2003
Masking the real crime Aug 24, 2002
Medicare: It ain’t over ’til it’s over Dec 6, 2003
Mega-oil company protested Jun 8, 2002
Mega-rich families spend millions to repeal estate tax May 20, 2006
Mexico’s tortilla crisis: harvest of NAFTA Feb. 10, 2007
Minimum wage outrage Aug 14, 2004
Minimum wage: Falling behind Mar 9, 2002
Missing! Five million workers are missing, and almost nobody has noticed Sept. 3, 2005
More bad news for Bush: his budget stalls May 29, 2004
More on the ‘socialist market economy’ Sept 20, 2003
More women lack health insurance Nov 17, 2001
No jobs for youth May 17, 2003
No recovery for state budgets Apr 24, 2004
No way to run the economy Mar 12, 2005
November unemployment report: Not a pretty picture Dec 14, 2002
Nurse Malone sets a great example April 21, 2007
NYC homeless and hungry grows after 9/11 Nov 24, 2001
NYC job crisis worst in nation Sep 6 2003
October jobs report: Bush job flop gets blip Nov 20, 2004
Ohio county workers walk Nov 10, 2001
Ohio grandma rages at corporate tax hypocrisy Sept. 9, 2006
Ohioans urge end to foreclosure ‘frenzy’ June 2, 2007
Oil and defense CEOs hit the jackpot Sept. 9, 2006
Oil company greed fuels rage at pumps Sept 13, 2003
Oil company price gouging provokes fightback June 9, 2007
Oil prices: Targeting China and all labor Aug 20, 2005
Oil rivalry, strife afflict the Caucasus Sept 11, 2004
On jobs it’s worse than it looks Jan. 12, 2008
Once again on socialist market economies Oct 25, 2003
Oregonians urge public takeover of Enron unit Mar 9, 2002
Pension measure shows renewed privatization attack Jun 22, 2002
Perfect pension storm revisited March 25, 2006
Pirates at the pump May 25, 2002
Prisons and profits Nov 10, 2001
Prosperity just around the corner? Aug 28, 2004
Putting April 15 in perspective Apr 13, 2002
Rally blasts Bush giveaways to rich Nov 24, 2001
Recession not over by a long shot Oct 11, 2003
Reflections on New Mexico’s minimum wage fight March 11, 2006
Republicans muzzle credit card victims April 5, 2008
Rethinking welfare reform Feb 2, 2002
Retirement, pensions and all that Jun 1, 2002
Rich will be richer, rest will become sicker Jan 8, 2005
Santa Claus came to town for the rich Nov 3, 2001
Scrap the cap Feb 19, 2005
Senate passes accounting bill Jul 20, 2002
Senators pass Bush ‘steal from poor’ budget March 25, 2006
September jobless rate at 5.6 percent Oct 12, 2002
Shift to service jobs Feb. 11, 2006
Sleep- deprived women Mar 6, 2004
So, where did Wal-Mart come from? Apr 3, 2004
Social Security doing just fine Feb 14, 2004
Social Security and the November elections Sept. 30, 2006
Social Security to be solvent for 50 years Jun 19, 2004
Social Security: keep your eyes on the prize June 9, 2007
Social Security: safe – for now Apr 5, 2003
Social Security: Where’d the surplus go? Apr 6, 2002
Southeastern Ohio farming community suffers educational crisis Feb. 4, 2006
St. Louis mobilizes against home foreclosures Dec. 8, 2007
States face fiscal crisis Dec 13, 2003
States mull privatizing lotteries Feb. 24, 2007
Sweatshops and school vouchers Jul 13, 2002
Sweet-sounding phrases July 30, 2005
Talking economy with students April 26, 2008
Tax attacks Apr 12, 2003
Tax bill to benefit super-rich May 20, 2006
Tax breaks for the wealthy Feb. 25, 2006
Tax day pickets hit $ 400 billion war budget Apr 20, 2002
Tax Day: Big brother is watching Apr 13, 2002
Taxes: No pretty sunsets here May 31, 2003
Taxing the oil companies’ hot air Feb. 4, 2006
The 1871 ban on night work Jul 10, 2004
The added price of oil May 25, 2002
The April unemployment report: No spring flowers here May 11, 2002
The budget – First congressional battle Jan 4, 2003
The Bush budget Feb 21, 2004
The case of the disappearing surplus Feb 2, 2002
The challenge of the Bush budget Apr 23, 2005
The cloud on Bush’s horizon Mar 29, 2003
The death of neo-liberalism Nov 16, 2002
The decline of the dollar Jul 6, 2002
The disappearing jobs of summer Sep 14, 2002
The economic cost of the Iraq war April 29, 2006
The economic crisis Jul 27, 2002
The economic crisis comes home Jan 11, 2003
The economic mainsprings of U.S. foreign policy Aug. 12, 2006
The economy: theirs and ours Jul 17, 2004
The fight to close corporate tax loopholes Sept 27, 2003
The housing bubble July 16, 2005
The housing bubble Jan. 21, 2006
The ILWU longshore contract by the numbers Jul 20, 2002
The insanity rap Oct 23, 2004
The Maestro of Fraud Apr 17, 2004
The May unemployment report: No rosy colors Jun 14, 2003
The myth of capitalist efficiency Feb 5, 2005
The Office of Tax Propaganda Aug 16, 2003
The people speak: Bush ‘stimulus’ plan a bust! Feb. 2, 2008
The post-bubble economy: A better world Aug 3, 2002
The predators in lending Feb 23, 2002
The recession: It ain’t over yet Mar 2, 2002
The second 100 hours Jan. 13, 2007
The socio-economic cost of Pax Americana Oct 19, 2002
The urgent case for nationalizing the oil industry May 7, 2005
The ‘middle class’ and the working class Apr 23, 2005
The ‘threat’ is close to home July 21, 2007
They take care of their own April 26, 2008
Too late Milton Friedman Dec. 23, 2006
Too much government spending? Jun 21, 2003
Toyota truck plant to open in San Antonio Apr 16, 2005
Trade conference focus is ‘food sovereignty’ May 25, 2002
U.S. food exporters: ‘End Cuba blockade’ June 9, 2007
U.S. ranks at bottom for child welfare March 3, 2007
Uncertainty Feb. 16, 2008
Undocumented workers give more than they get Oct 4, 2003
Unemployment by the numbers Jun 15, 2002
Unemployment jumps Nov 10, 2001
Unemployment up, Black youth hardest hit Jul 12, 2003
Unemployment – what’s going on? Dec 15, 2001
Unemployment: No good news Jan 18, 2003
Union pension funds exercise clout June 25, 2005
Up to a third of U.S. jobs are low-wage, researcher says Oct. 20, 2007
Venezuela’s revolution improves economy Aug 9, 2003
Vietnam’s socialist market economy Jul 19, 2003
Wage news not good Jul 31, 2004
Wal-Mart and Henry Ford March 4, 2006
Wall Street loves Bush budget Feb 28, 2004
Wall Street's patriotism? Nov 3, 2001
Wall Street’s enforcer June 17, 2006
Wall Street’s role in the immigration debate June 9, 2007
Want to strengthen Social Security? Provide good jobs for youth! Feb 26, 2005
War budget fuels drive for empire Mar 5, 2005
Watershed in India’s history Jun 26, 2004
We need to reform jobless benefits Oct 27, 2001
What Russians think May 22, 2004
What’s behind predatory lending? Too much capital, too much debt May 28, 2005
When does 2+2 not equal 4? Dec 11, 2004
When housing dreams become nightmares March 31, 2007
Where your money goes: We’re getting poorer because we’re paying more for debt Dec. 16, 2006
White House pushes deficit to trillions Jan 31, 2004
Who pays the costs of empire Jun 8, 2002
Who will control Iraq’s oil? Draft law would open door for multinationals to move in March 10, 2007
Who will pay for the falling dollar? Dec 18, 2004
Whose recovery? Feb 7, 2004
Why the shift to a socialist market economy? Jul 12, 2003
Wolfowitz ouster reflects bigger problems May 26, 2007
Women work: Look at the numbers Mar 23, 2002
Worker displacement: A fancy name for losing a job Sep 7, 2002
Workers confront Sunoco over proposed pay cuts May 27, 2006
Workers drown in pink slip flood March 15, 2008
Workers in Venezuela are now managers June 11, 2005
Working day and night in North Carolina July 22, 2006
Working Families Action Alert Nov 3, 2001
Workplace safety enforcement: A tale of two countries Apr 23, 2005
World Social Forum spotlights inequalities Feb. 3, 2007
Yale pensions a national issue Sept 20, 2003
Yale workers battle Ivy league economics Aug 31, 2002
You get what you pay for Jul 27, 2002
Young people losing out in ‘strong’ economy Aug. 11, 2007
Youth face tough economic times Nov. 3, 2007
Zeal for market: But what about justice? Oct 18, 2003
‘527s’ and the political process Oct 2, 2004
‘Economic stimulus’ – All show and no go Mar 16, 2002
‘Globalization’ and women workers March 11, 2006
‘Hold your ground, refuse to surrender’ Apr 16, 2005
‘Of the people, by the people, for the people’ Feb 28, 2004
‘People vs. Profits II’ wins book award May 12, 2007
‘Perfect storm’ on pensions, health care May 14, 2005
‘Populist’ revolt in Latin America April 1, 2006
‘Red’ states say America needs a raise Nov. 18, 2006
‘Save home’ hotline launched Oct. 20, 2007
‘State of Black California’ points to inequalities Feb. 10, 2007
‘State of Working America’ looks bleak Oct 23, 2004
‘To fix economy, put working class first’ Jan. 26, 2008
‘We are against school closings’ March 15, 2008
‘We’re bankrupt! We have too much money!’ March 17, 2007


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