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MAGA Plan The country recently advanced to a pivotal time in its political history. A small group of profanely wealthy individuals that…
Bruce T. Boccardy
Bruce T. Boccardy serves as an Economics & Labor Advisor for Small Planet Institute, was president of the Massachusetts Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 888, represented labor on the Massachusetts Joint Labor-Management Committee (JLMC), serving firefighters and police and consulted to the National Association of Government Employees (NAGE).
The Great Distraction U.S. oligarchs representing the profanely rich have distracted millions of working people from the root cause of their economic…
Economic Model-Two Conditions Our economic model generates and conflates two conditions that burden working people. The first is “economic adversity.” The second…
Media Angst Some of the media are preoccupied with a baffling question; Why are Americans not celebrating the economic accomplishments of the…
The context of this quarterly report is important. The trend toward a neofascist political economy continues to fester in some states as…
Biden Administration Claim The recent widely acclaimed report of 517,000 jobs created in January by the Biden administration placated the recession-phobic instincts…
Midterm Machinations The midterm elections are about over. The Democrats will retain power in the Senate and the Republicans won the House. Both…
An effective beginning is learning the structure of our economic model, who it works for and how to ameliorate it for the rest of us.
The United States Supreme Court ruled in Harris v. Quinn that home health aides were not required to pay their “fair share” or agency fees in the public sector. This was the first successful attack on the agency fee law by so-called Right to Work organizations