by Richard Eskow | Mar 10, 2016 | Blog
The Brookings Institution recently issued a report showing that poor Americans die at a much earlier age than rich Americans, and that this life expectancy gap between rich and poor is growing rapidly. A professor of public health at Yale University told the New York...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 1, 2016 | Blog, Trade
A new study confirms what many activists have suspected for a long time: The private courts set up by international "trade" deals heavily favor billionaires and giant corporations, and they do so at the expense of governments and people. Smaller companies and...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 8, 2016 | Blog
[fve]https://youtu.be/Ro1XpTPXjV4[/fve] Economic inequality inspired Occupy Wall Street, a movement that in a few short months transformed our political discourse with the concept of the "1 percent" and the "99 percent." Today the presidential candidacy of Bernie...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 17, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform
The Glass-Steagall Act came up as a major point of disagreement between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton during Saturday's Democratic presidential debate. The act, which was originally enacted in 1933, separated risky trading and investment from traditional banking...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 12, 2015 | Blog
Several recent news articles have suggested that, in the words of a Washington Post headline, “there’s … a big economic fight happening in the Democratic Party.” It’s true. The corporate-friendly policies of the party’s more conservative wing have fared poorly, both...
