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The Justice We Are Looking For |
According to the Associated Press, the college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work. A weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully use their skills and knowledge. Young adults with bachelor’s degrees are increasingly scraping [...]
In a story appearing in the April 30, 2010 issue of The Nation, William Greider discusses the Federal Reserve and portrays this institution as the only governming institution with the coruage to dissent from the conventional wisdom. “Washington is lost in a snarl of confusion, cowardice and wrongheaded ideological assumptions that threaten to keep the [...]
In a story appearing in the April 9, 2012 issue of The Nation, Robert Reich writes: “Conservatives love to rail against ‘big government.’ But the surge of cynicism engulfing the nation isn’t about government’s size. It flows from a growing perception that government doesn’t work for average people but for big business, Wall Street and [...]
Astra Taylor argues in the April 2, 2012 issue of The Nation that from its inception, the Occupy movement has had a contentious relationship with the mainstream media. “There are some within Occupy who argue that this is where the focus should be: the movement should make its own media and not concern itself with [...]
Michael Moore’s article appearing in the April 2, 2012 issue of The Nation argues that the Occupy Wall Street movement action struck a raw nerve, sending a shock wave throughout the United States, because what these kids were doing was what tens of millions of people wished they could do. The people who have lost their [...]
In Tom Campbell’s article appearing in the Los Angeles Time on Sunday, April 22, he argues: “But we’re having the wrong conversation. The question shouldn’t be whether wealthy people are paying their fair share but rather how investment, consumption and taxes figure in our economic recovery. “Instead of asking what is fair, let’s start with [...]