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OSHA in the 21st Century: Real Protection for America’s Workers
Jun 25, 2020
The Occupational Safety Health Administration was created 50 years ago. Today, it’s in dire straits, say OSHA’s leaders during the Obama administration
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Elaine Brown, Who Led Black Panthers, Sizes Up America’s Racial Reckoning
Jun 24, 2020
The activist and author shares a free-ranging conversation with INET president Rob Johnson.
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Who Benefits From New Technologies?
Jun 22, 2020
Do the benefits of new technologies accrue primarily to inventors, early investors, and highly skilled users, or to society more widely as their adoption generates employment growth?
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Profits from Job Losses Will Finance Government Borrowing for COVID-19 Bailouts
Jun 18, 2020
COVID has meant unemployment for the many and a corporate profit-fueled windfall for the few.
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Felwine Sarr : La crise du COVID-19 indique une nécessité de changement et de repenser le monde de demain
Jun 16, 2020
Entretien avec Pr Felwine Sarr, Professeur Titulaire des Universités et agrégé en économie à l’Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis au Sénégal, pour la série d’INET sur COVID-19 et l’Afrique
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Felwine Sarr: The COVID-19 crisis demonstrates the need to change track and re-think the world of tomorrow.
Jun 16, 2020
An interview with Professor Felwine Sarr, Professor of Economics at the Université Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis in Senegal, for INET’s series on COVID-19 and Africa
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How the Disappearance of Unionized Jobs Obliterated an Emergent Black Middle Class
Jun 15, 2020
Since the 1980s, the enemy of equal employment opportunity through upward socioeconomic mobility has been the pervasive and entrenched corporate-governance ideology and practice of maximizing shareholder value.
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Fatima Denton: Governments must accelerate a plan for a diversified economy, an exit from fossil fuels, and shift towards a green transition
Jun 10, 2020
An interview with Dr Fatima Denton, Director of the United Nations University – Institute for Natural Resources in Africa, for INET’s series on COVID-19 and Africa
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If You Want Justice for Black Americans, You Have to Fix This
Jun 10, 2020
Economist Darrick Hamilton explains why confronting the racial wealth gap is the only way to address 400 years of discrimination.
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Why a V-Shaped Recession Is a Pipe Dream
Jun 8, 2020
Regardless of what Trump says, the economic pain of the pandemic isn’t going anywhere
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How America’s Economy Runs on Racism
Jun 5, 2020
Economist Darrick Hamilton explains that pursuit of profit, not hatred of black people, is the real root of discrimination.
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Benno Ndulu: The pandemic has laid bare the pivotal roles of both the informal sector and SMEs
Jun 3, 2020
An interview with Pr Benno Ndulu, the former Governor of the Bank of Tanzania, for INET’s series on COVID-19 and Africa
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Enhancing Resilience in African Economies: Policy Responses to the COVID19 Pandemic in Africa
Jun 3, 2020
An introduction to a series of interviews conducted by Dr. Dr. Folashadé Soulé and Dr. Camilla Toulmin in support of INET’s Commission on Global Economic Transformation (CGET)
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The Fleming Myth and the Public Sector Contribution to Discovery and Development of New Cancer Drugs
Jun 2, 2020
Abstract, “basic science” research is essential to drug discovery. It is also largely funded by the public sector.
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We're in a Moment of Collective Trauma. But There Are Glimmers of Hope
Jun 2, 2020
A special note from INET board member john a. powell