Salvatore Babones: Austerity is not the Answer; Employment is the Answer
Austerity is a political decision, not an economic one. It benefits the few at the expense of the many.
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Salvatore Babones: The Problem Isn’t Growth — The Problem Is Inequality
The US economy has been growing since July 2009. So why aren’t things improving in the US realonomy?
Salvatore Babones: Federal Workers Should Not Have to Pay for the Social Security Tax Cuts
Federal workers have it hard enough without Congress playing politics with their paychecks and pensions.
Salvatore Babones: To Grow the Realonomy, Tax and Spend
“Tax and spend.” Those three dirty words are now the key to economic recovery in America’s Realonomy.
Salvatore Babones: What’s Holding Back the US Economy?
Declines in government spending are holding back GDP growth at a time governments at all levels should be hiring to create jobs.
Salvatore Babones: America’s Incredible Shrinking Government
Despite right-wing rhetoric to the contrary, the size of America’s governments has been shrinking for more than 35 years.
Salvatore Babones: After the Deficit Reduction Supercommittee, Back to School
It’s time to tax and spend
Salvatore Babones: The Greek Debt Crisis: What’s Going on in Europe?
As the economic news in the United States gets worse and worse every week, a lot of Americans are saying “at least we’re not Europe.” To read the press accounts, it sounds like Greece is plunging Europe into a second Great Depression. Greece is having trouble paying its debts, and many people are worried that [...]
A ‘Flip’ Solution to Ending Budget Shortfalls
A new report from the Boston-based United for a Fair Economy stands our current state and local tax system on its head and, in the process, powerfully dramatizes the utter illogic of the ongoing national wave of public service cutbacks in everything from schools to fire stations.