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Once partners in pioneering employer-union health benefit plans in the early 1950s, the United Auto Workers Union (UAW) and the big-three auto…
Jack Rasmus
Dr. Jack Rasmus, Ph.D Political Economy, teaches economics at St. Mary’s College in California. He is the author and producer of the various nonfiction and fictional workers, including the books The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy From Reagan to Bush, Clarity Press, October 2019. Jack is the host of the weekly radio show, Alternative Visions, on the Progressive Radio Network, and a journalist writing on economic, political and labor issues for various magazines, including European Financial Review, World Financial Review, World Review of Political Economy, ‘Z‘ magazine, and others.
The current system for financing health care, which originated in the immediate post-World War II period, is today approaching collapse. Its decline…
The rules of the game that have governed how health care benefits have been financed and delivered in the U.S. for 60…
P art 1 of this article showed how even conservative estimates reveal that income inequality in the U.S. today has reached extremes…
F or three decades, from 1942 to the mid-1970s, a “great leveling” of incomes between classes in America occurred as the standard…
A t no time in the past 70 years have American workers and unions been under more direct and intense attack by…
T he most fundamental and singular result of corporate policies of the past 25 years has been a massive shift in relative…
T wo events of particular import occurred the last week of July: the AFL-CIO split and CAFTA (the Central American Free Trade…
T his past April debate began in Congress on the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). CAFTA represents the Bush administration’s effort…
I n the U.S. millions of workers and their children face the human and economic devastation that can accompany a serious illness.…