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Talking Loud and Saying Nothing

I used to love me some JB. The funk. The precision. The songs: Papa Got a Brand New Bag. Sex Machine. Popcorn. Say it Loud: I'm Black and I

Sep 20, 20208 min read

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THE DEADLY BULLSHITTER

The news hit a little more than a week ago: COVID's death count surpassed that grim mark of one million. That one million figure exceeds th

May 31, 20223 min read

DON'T MAKE PEACE WITH POVERTY

There's nothing "natural" about child poverty, and seeking to abolish it is not akin to trying to obliterate the law of gravity

May 18, 20224 min read

THE LIVING WAGE AS A FIGHT FOR ECONOMIC AND RACIAL JUSTICE

It’s been over a decade since the Congress legislatively boosted the minimum wage. More specifically, the minimum wage has been stuck at $7.

Mar 31, 20223 min read

DON'T BUY IT!

So, those stimmy payments are responsible for inflation?! I'm not buying it. Period.

Nov 28, 20214 min read

WHAT'S THE SKINNY ON THAT STIMMY?

Poverty is a public issue and will only be abolished through public policies. That's one of the lessons from the stimmy

Oct 2, 20213 min read

TO UNMAKE THE MADE

COVID has increased the number of poor folks. But that which is made can be unmade

Sep 26, 20213 min read

DELTA DELIVERS A DAMAGING BLOW

Delta delivers an economic blow. We're no ways out of the woods

Sep 19, 20213 min read

WHITE PEOPLE ARE SCARY AF

White folk done got me shook. They're downright frigtening, out of control, dangerous, irresponsible, and rageous. They're scary AF.

Aug 6, 20215 min read

GETTING A GRIP ON THE FLIP

A recent BLS report finds that the number of workers quitting is at an all time high. Why are folks flipping the bird??

Jul 4, 20214 min read

ON THE BACKS OF THE BATTERED

The last thing we need to do is to build a bridge back to normal. Especially when that bridge is built on the backs of the battered.

Jun 29, 20214 min read

BOOGEY BOUNCES BACK!

He's always around. Crouched under the bed. Lurking in the dark. Popping up mysteriously, and ready to pounce and pummel to death. We know a

Jun 11, 20216 min read

THE INCONVENIENT INQUISITOR

The speaker was spell-binding. His stories, the rhythm of his rhetoric, his commanding presence, his apparent erudition-- all of it had a wa

Jun 2, 20214 min read

STUCK IN A RUT

See that right there? That graph. Well, it displays movements in the percentage of unemployed workers who've experienced long turn...

May 29, 20216 min read

PROTECT YA NECK!

Enough with the shaming of workers into returning to a low-paying and toxic work environment. Protect ya neck!

May 16, 20216 min read

SNATCH THE SCRATCH

It's time for a wealth tax. It's time, at the very least, to start with a PTOP-- a pandemic tax on plutocrats. It's time to snatch back the

May 8, 20215 min read

HARDEST HIT, LAST TO RECOVER

Everybody's unemployment rate went down but our rate went up.

Mar 14, 20214 min read

FREE MARKET FUNDAMENTALISM IS A KILLER

When I mask up, I'm not protecting myself; I'm protecting you. And, likewise, when you mask up, you're not protecting yourself, you're prote

Mar 9, 20215 min read

WHO'S GOING TO TAKE THE WEIGHT?

This Texas power outage is a straight-up nightmare. Guess who's going to take the weight?

Feb 20, 20215 min read

STILL GETTING PUNCHED BY THE PANDEMIC

The unemployment rate underestimates the extent to which we're still getting punched by the pandemic

Feb 10, 20213 min read

WE NEED AN ECONOMIC KNUCKLE GAME

If we're serious about standing in solidarity with the least of these, then we better tighten up our knuckle game.

Jan 24, 20214 min read