The saying goes that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. However, it’s not so difficult to envision a world operating outside of the economic status quo when you ...

In July 2024, the Council Office of Financial Analysis (COFA) reported that Chicago, Illinois, was witnessing a struggling job market, a decrease in multifamily housing starts, and a rise in ...

Rising levels of unemployment in European welfare states have revived questions on the social protection of the unemployed and the people’s solidarity with this claimant group. Does people’s ...

1. Greater involvement for excluded disadvantaged groups 2. Ensuring protections for workers 3. Filling needs unmet by the government 4. Worker co-ops empower workers 5. Strengthening communities ...

Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 49, No. 4 (DECEMBER 2015), pp. 1112-1123 (12 pages) Fundamental to social provisioning is ensuring that community members have access to employment opportunities that ...

Contemporary debates about capitalism and its alternatives often fall into two traps: either portraying economic life as so fully saturated by (racial) capitalism that alternatives are rendered ...

All of these stories have one thing in common: each revolves around a “study” providing the ostensibly neutral analysis, and in each case the “study” was done by Anderson Economic Group, a consultancy ...

[Asia Economy] A 'pivot to pivot' war is underway between the US and China to seize leadership of the international order. The 'pivot to pivot' war demands a reorganization of the new international ...

Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Group and the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, on the 26th used a joint interview with three YouTube channels—SamproTV, Understanding, and Apgwon—to explain the ...

A nationwide economic blackout scheduled for February 28 has gained momentum as consumers prepare to halt spending for a day in protest. Led by The People's Union, organizers aim to highlight consumer ...

A year of the COVID-19 pandemic has left millions jobless, hundreds of thousands dead, and many turning to neighbors and mutual aid groups, instead of the government, to make ends meet. When Chicago ...

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