Because we’ve been burning carbon for 200 years, we’ve sourced too much of it into the atmosphere in the form of CO2. The planet is warming, weather’s disruptive, and species are falling like dominoes. Dr. Sabine O’Hara, a distinguished economist, tells Ms. how restorative economics could make a difference as we rebuild.
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‘Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink’: How Water Pollution Affects Our Health—From Disrupted Hormones to Lead Poisoning
Biden’s proposed infrastructure bill takes some important steps toward greater water safety, replacing lead pipes. He’ll have to overcome calls for budget cuts, but will he also confront our Pentagon and our water infrastructure’s reliance on unsafe or untested chemicals? Our children’s safety and our future—not corporate profit or government cost—must come first.
Other Countries Have Safety Nets. The U.S. Has Mothers
Like the original Marshall Plan of 1948 that rebuilt Europe post WWII, supporters of the Marshall Plan for Mom are calling for a financial investment in rebuilding women’s lives.
Singing the She-cession Blues: How the Pandemic Is Revealing Existing Fault Lines in the U.S. Economy
The Labor Department reported an alarming 865,000 women left the workforce in the month of September.
The Female Future of Work report shows how old the barriers faced by working women are and how seldom U.S. policymakers cared. The new report brings a recognition to working women’s history.
Why ‘Labor’ is a Woman’s Word and Cowboys Can’t Be Trusted
“It’s time female founders and female workers and female candidates abandon old cowboy ethics.
By means of democracy, we can tax income, tax wealth, tax inheritance, and give workers a say in what happens inside corporations.”
How “Patriarchal Capitalism” Finances Systemic Agricultural Violence
Dr. Shiva, an internationally awarded physicist, has written a new book, “Oneness vs. The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom” that examines the “mechanical, military mindset” that routinely wars against a living planet and its people.
“What is eco-feminism?” she asks. “It’s taking off the blinkers of patriarchal capitalism that says nature is inert and dead, that women are dumb, and recognizing that nature and women are alive and creative.”
How Public Banking Could Make Black Lives Matter
In her new book “The Color of Money,” UCI law professor Mehrsa Baradaran says that if history is any guide, Black capital and Black banks alone will not be enough to end Black poverty. True equity will require a fundamental reworking of the U.S. banking system.
Moving Forward with Profits for Nonprofits
Dr. Melanie Rieback has bucked American business as usual by creating a profitable nonprofit business—a mutually beneficial investment that may not be so linear or individualistic and male as past business models have often been described.
Economic Growth: Who Needs It?
“We are seeing a huge wealth transfer in the CARES Act, giving benefit to private corporations, and the taxpayers will pay for it.”
While the economy collapses around us, Diamond asks: Why does a growth-pressured economy fall apart so quickly?
Want to Understand the Fed? Ask Pam or Ellen, not Janet or Jay
A financial system funded by the public for the public good, could create money as a utility for all of us on Main Street, instead of what we have now—The Fed, a profit center for the richest few on Wall Street.