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Economic Meltdown Funnies
Read about the causes of the Economic Crisis: In the ECONOMIC MELTDOWN FUNNIES.
Jobs with Justice and the Institute for Policy Studies have just published an innovative new resource to help trade unionists understand why the U.S. economy has gone into the ditch — and how we can get the economy working again for working families.
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Responding to the Economic Crisis
It is time for all of us to learn more and organize for fundamental changes in the U.S. economy. The IPS “Sensible Plan For Recovery” calls for a “Green Stimulus” package, a halt to foreclosures, limits on excessive CEO and profiteering from the bailouts, a closing of the “casino economy,” and a series of proposals [...]
Learn More: Causes of the Economic Crisis
The Working Group has a regularly updated list of tools to help us learn more and analyze the changes facing our economy. We are not going back to some golden age of economic growth and low cost energy. Nor should we allow the economy to be organized to permit the extreme inequalities of the last three decades.
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For the World’s Wealthy, A Setback Most Slight
The global economic collapse, says the first in-depth survey of grand fortune since last September, has left the world’s wealth just as intensely concentrated as ever.
Reverse the Great Tax Shift
Few Americans realize just how incredibly little, historically speaking, our nation’s wealthy now pay in taxes.
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