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COVID-19 will turn the state pension problem into a fiscal crisis

Real Progressives August 16, 2021 Economic Justice Health and Well-being

Most states struggle to meet pension funding needs – and the pandemic will make it worse.

When Will America Declare War on Climate-Change?

J.D. ALT August 14, 2021 Economic Justice Environmental and Ecological Justice

A declaration of war is a legal framework that sets in motion a process of “mobilization” in which the national government directs real resources—labor, engineering expertise, technology, material—toward the goal of defeating an enemy threat.

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Invoke 1881a Now Biden

David Soll August 13, 2021 Editorial Health and Well-being

“The fact we are still under a national public health emergency … should make everyone stand up and demand President Biden invoke Section 1881A immediately.”

UBI vs FJG

Greg Roest August 4, 2021 Economic Justice Equality with Justice

A Federal Job Guarantee is real progress. A UBI advances our deterioration.

Nancy Pelosi Lies While the Working Class Dies

Birrion Sondahl August 4, 2021 Democracy Equality with Justice

With this kind of leadership, it is no wonder the Democrats lost House seats in the highest turn out election of all time.

Medicare for All, Not for Some

Birrion Sondahl August 4, 2021 Current Events Economic Justice

“The state-based strategy relies on states passing their own healthcare systems… they must fund these programs on their own… This constraint means only a very few states are even capable of carrying out this strategy.”

Men on a Wall

J.D. ALT July 31, 2021 Economic Justice Equality with Justice

Is it possible—except for this confusion about where sovereign public money comes from—that, on the level of economics, there is really no difference at all between the Conservative and Progressive positions?

The Dilemma of the Cooperative Gene

J.D. ALT July 23, 2021 Economic Justice Health and Well-being

Given the relationship between “money” and real resources, it is impossible to equitably “share” real resources, and effectively create collective goods, when money is a scarce commodity controlled by competition.

If You Really Care About Social Security, Stop Capitulating To The Left

Stephanie Kelton July 17, 2021 Economic Justice Health and Well-being

Let’s start telling the truth about Social Security. We are educators. So let’s educate people on the basic facts.

Dynamics of Labor in The Covid Era

Artemis Salisbury July 12, 2021 Current Events Economic Justice

In all the coverage of the labor shortage by mainstream, corporate media, the human element of the power dynamics of waged labor in the COVID-era has steadily been missing from popular analysis.

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Issues Related to State-Based ‘Single-Payer’ Healthcare

Artemis Salisbury July 9, 2021 Equality with Justice Health and Well-being

To pass meaningful healthcare reform, we must meaningfully pressure politicians and their donors by threatening the former with loss of their seat and the latter with loss of their extracted wealth.

Socius Pt. 5 – Analyzing Americans’ Alleged Freedoms

Artemis Salisbury July 7, 2021 Democracy Equality with Justice

The ‘freedoms’ America was built on are the freedom to exploit water, land, humans, and the earth itself for the accumulation of inordinate wealth.