Economy

Can the Most Powerful Global Tax Organization Shed Its Racist Ways?

Can the Most Powerful Global Tax Organization Shed Its Racist Ways? Can the Most Powerful Global Tax Organization Shed Its Racist Ways?

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development insists it’s “inclusive,” but it’s still strong-arming countries in the Global South.

Oct 19, 2021 / Steven Dean

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Letters From the November 1/8, 2021, Issue Letters From the November 1/8, 2021, Issue

Our carbon bootprint… The forgotten forever war… Fuzzy math… Feminism: left and white? (web only)…

Oct 19, 2021 / Our Readers and Rafia Zakaria

Welcome to the USA

Welcome to the USA Welcome to the USA

Abortion is health care, guns are death…

Oct 18, 2021 / OppArt / Judy Polstra

A Veteran Journalist Finds Himself the Center of the Story 

A Veteran Journalist Finds Himself the Center of the Story  A Veteran Journalist Finds Himself the Center of the Story 

How did Ray Suarez end up jobless and worrying about how he was going to pay his dental bills?

Oct 18, 2021 / Podcast / The Nation and Economic Hardship Reporting Project

When Sleep Deprivation Compounds the Struggle of Being Unhoused

When Sleep Deprivation Compounds the Struggle of Being Unhoused When Sleep Deprivation Compounds the Struggle of Being Unhoused

Lori Yearwood hadn’t thought much about sleep—until she found herself homeless, and unable to catch a wink.

Oct 18, 2021 / Podcast / The Nation and Economic Hardship Reporting Project

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Poverty Can Happen to Anyone Poverty Can Happen to Anyone

Our new podcast, Going for Broke, lets Americans living on the edge have the last word.

Oct 18, 2021 / Podcast / Ray Suarez

The Moon and Six-Pence

The Moon and Six-Pence The Moon and Six-Pence

Pandora’s box. Scenes from our series “The Greater Quiet” for the week of October 11.

Oct 15, 2021 / Steve Brodner

Rings

Rings Rings

End of the lines.

Oct 15, 2021 / OppArt / Mark Fiore

Ignore the Naysayers. A Full-Employment Recovery Is Possible.

Ignore the Naysayers. A Full-Employment Recovery Is Possible. Ignore the Naysayers. A Full-Employment Recovery Is Possible.

Critics of the American Rescue Plan made two dire predictions. Both proved wrong.

Oct 15, 2021 / Mike Konczal

Texas Abortion Providers Are “Hitting Their Limits”

Texas Abortion Providers Are “Hitting Their Limits” Texas Abortion Providers Are “Hitting Their Limits”

Clinic staff are “very worried” about the stability of their jobs, explained one provider. And turning away patient after patient is taking its toll.

Oct 14, 2021 / Mary Tuma

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