Wages from $29 working for GM to $9 working at a “Fuyao Glass” Chinese-owned glass factory in Dayton, Ohio Exclusive: The Obamas’ Netflix doc ‘American Factory’ to launch nationwide social-impact tour Participant Media and its partners in this searing documentary about the future of work… Read More »This Oscar Winner might be the best movie ever on globalization and the future of work
New Introductory Video Land Value Taxation (also known as split-rate real property taxation, and two-tiered real property taxation) is a type of real property taxation. Whereas the typical real property tax taxes both land and the improvements on the land at the same rate, LVT taxes land at… Read More »Video: An Introduction to Land Value Tax
By John H. Beck Some politicians who favor of protectionist trade policies have recently claimed that tariffs will not raise prices for American consumers. They claim instead that foreign producers will bear the burden of these taxes. However, proponents of free trade have refuted this… Read More »Tariffs are taxes that Americans pay
A glass of dairy milk produces almost three times more greenhouse gas than any plant-based milk. But vegan options have drawbacks of their own Annette McGivney Wed 29 Jan 2020 When choosing a plant milk, it’s important to consider how the crop impacts people… Read More »Almonds are out. Dairy is a disaster. So what milk should we drink?
By: Josie Faass, Executive Director Here in the northeast, the days are short and cold, and the respite of a good book and a warm cup of tea is hard to resist. But resist we must (unless it’s a book from our bookstore, then by… Read More »Winter is No Time to Hibernate
By Edward J. Dodson / January 2020 As Americans contemplate whether and how to exercise their vote in this year’s elections, they have numerous important issues to consider. One vital issue is what, if any, legislative changes will the newly-elected Federal, State and even Local… Read More »The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good, even when it comes to Raising Public Revenue
Approximately half of the luxury-condo units that have come onto the market in the past five years are still unsold. January 16, 2020 Derek Thompson Staff writer at The Atlantic In Manhattan, the homeless shelters are full, and the luxury skyscrapers are vacant. Such is… Read More »Why Manhattan’s Skyscrapers Are Empty
by Frank de Jong Carbon levies are fraught with variables, a whack-a-mole game of cascading effects. But interestingly, I think they will reduce both housing costs and C02 emissions. If fossil energy was purely a house-like asset, i.e., the price reflecting the cost of production,… Read More »Rev up the Carbon Taxes
January 13, 20205:04 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition Eric Westervelt Charles Gibson pushes a shopping cart toward his soggy tent on a tenuous patch of a grassy drainage ditch along a bike trail in Santa Rosa, Calif. He’s one of nearly 200 people living… Read More »Sprawling Homeless Camps — Modern ‘Hoovervilles’ — Vex California
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