The Fear Economy

Economist Paul Krugman The New York Times
There are many steps that we can take to end that state of affairs, but the most important is to put jobs back on the agenda.

The Right To Stay Home: How U.S. Policy Drives Mexican Migration - a Review

Duane Campbell Talking Union, a DSA labor blog
The Obama Administration has produced vast expansion of deportations reaching 409,000 last year, with over 2 million deported since this president assumed office. Increased enforcement has been justified as a device to encourage legislative reform of the immigration system, but it has only increased the deportations and the divisions of families.

Friday Nite Videos -- Dec 27, 2013

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Bryan Stevenson: We Need to Talk About Injustice. Leonard Cohen: Democracy Is Coming to the USA. What Does the PISA Report Tell Us About U.S. Education? Chiara de Blasio Tells Her Story. Merry Christmas: No More Unemployment Benefits. President Barack Obama - Drop It Like It's Hot.

Bryan Stevenson: We Need to Talk About Injustice

Human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of Black men have been incarcerated at some point in their lives.