• There Has Been a Sharp Rise in Time Parity

    There Has Been a Sharp Rise in Time Parity

    Instead of comparing people's incomes, we should compare how we spend our time now versus how we spent it in the past.
  • Cities have different tax rates

    Cities have different tax rates

    Some of the states with the smallest and least expensive governments are the ones with no individual income tax.
  • There Is No Welfare Utopia

    There Is No Welfare Utopia

    Unfortunately, a welfare state by any other name is still a welfare state.
  • Influential Occupy Wall Street leader David Graeber dead at 59

    Influential Occupy Wall Street leader David Graeber dead at 59

    David Graeber, who helped organize the Occupy Wall Street movement, has died in Venice, his agent said. He was 59. A professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, Graeber studied anarchism and anti-capitalist movements, and challenged the world to respond to the plight of Kurds in the Middle East. “David was a hugely …
  • Three-quarters of Americans expect coronavirus to hurt their income

    Three-quarters of Americans expect coronavirus to hurt their income

    Nearly three in four Americans expect their incomes to suffer as a result of the coronavirus crisis, a new survey shows. Some 74 percent of people in the US say the pandemic will affect their household income or already has, according to Kantar’s survey of the Group of Seven countries released Wednesday. Such concerns are …