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Why Poor People's Bad Decisions Make Perfect Sense

There's no way to structure this coherently. They are random observations that might help explain the mental processes. But often, I think that we look at the academic problems of poverty and have ...

Nov 23

Welcome to the TESA Academy, where we teach online courses addressing vital issues facing social justice movements. Our current courses include:Introduction to Co-opsLearn the basics of ...

Nov 23

Celebrities Ask President Obama: What the Frack?

Nov 23

The Basic Income Guarantee is an unconditional, government-insured guarantee that all citizens will have enough income to meet their basic needs Call for Papers 15th International Congress of the ...

Nov 23

Economist Peter Morici and Economic Policy Institute's Christian Dorsey discuss the proposal in Switzerland of a 'basic income' with host Melissa Francis. Melissa Francis, "Should the government ...

Nov 23

China officially abandons its pursuit of "growth at all costs"

How did China grow its GPD by 10 percent every year for more than three decades, from a virtual standing start, rising to become the world's second-largest economy? Through a simple, horrendous ...

Nov 23

Seattle City Councilmember-elect shares radical idea with...

Seattle City Councilmember-elect Kshama Sawant told Boeing machinists her idea of a radical option, should their jobs be moved out of state "The workers should take over the factories, and shut down

Nov 22

Bayer is suing a whole continent for saving the bees?

And it says a ban on its bee-killing pesticides is "disproportionate"?!?

Nov 22

Switzerland Shows U.S. How to Handle CEOs

If Switzerland can create a maximum wage and a guaranteed basic income, why can't the U.S.?

Nov 22

Sign the petition: Keep Radioactive Frack Wastewater off our rivers

I just signed a petition to U.S. Coast Guard: I oppose the Coast Guard's proposal to allow shale gas extraction ("frack") wastewater to be carried on the nation's rivers. Frack wastewater is highly