Economic Meltdown Funnies
Read our new comic book in the economic crisis: The “Economic Meltdown Funnies.”
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.
Are we dying for the rich?
Canadian commentator Crawford Kilian takes a look at the global evidence that links the concentration of income and wealth to poor health for both low- and middle-income people.
Our great economic U-turn
This perceptive Wall Street Journal op-ed, by social critic Thomas Frank, wonders when Americans ever voted for plutocracy.
What should we do about greed?
High taxes on the rich in Europe, notes author Susan Jacoby in On Faith, “go to provide a level of security that no American below the top 1 percent enjoys.”
