50 Years of Gutting America’s Middle Class
Walmart’s explosive growth has gutted two key pillars of the American middle class: small businesses and well-paid manufacturing jobs.
Is High-Tech the Next Step for the New Economy Movement?
Can new technologies become part of the new economy movement? High tech companies seem more participatory, less hierarchical, and more community-oriented than traditional industries.
A World Bank President We Can Get Behind?
The candidates for next month’s selection could finally change the game of serving markets over people – and we all might have a role to play.
Why We Are Still Not Supporting Jeffrey Sachs to be World Bank President
Even today, Sachs’s approach to development remains top-down and formulaic.
Why We Are Not Supporting Jeffrey Sachs to be World Bank President
Even today, Sachs’s approach to development remains top-down and formulaic.
What Do The New World Bank Statistics Really Tell Us?
The statistics upon which most poverty elimination strategies are based are extremely misleading, and often steer experts toward the wrong solutions.
Occupy vs. the Global Race to the Bottom
Incorporating corporate globalization into the Occupy analysis and agenda.
The State of the 99 Percent
The Occupy movement is clearly affecting political rhetoric… but what about real action?
Why the 99 Percent are Protesting at the World Bank Today
Undemocratic provisions in treaties enable corporations to sue governments in international tribunals over environmental, health, and other measures foreign countries take to protect the public.
Can Danilo Atilano Feed the World?
Industrial agriculture advocates say organic farming cannot produce enough food for 7 billion people. A group of rice farmers in the Philippines is proving them wrong.
A Main Street Fix to Wall Street’s Failure
Building a policy agenda to deepen the jobs debate, our new report looks at the structural issues behind the economic crisis and how we can transition to a new economy based on Main Street.
A Main Street Jobs Agenda
Putting more money in the hands of those who already have jobs so they can buy more Chinese imports does very little to put Americans to work in good jobs that pay good wages.
How Occupy is Transforming Our National Conversation
In just two months, the Occupy movement has begun to unseat an economic narrative that held sway for thirty years.
Occupy Wall Street, 1979 Edition
Before there were hashtags, 32 years ago, more than a thousand protesters tried to shut Wall Street down for a day.
A New Set of Tools for Measuring Economic Progress
Maryland’s GPI assesses what’s left behind when the state’s economy officially expands.