The economic history of the United States

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The economy in general of the United States

The Joys of Being No. 1
By Harry Kelber, 14 September 1995. The basis for the US being the world’s most competitive economy in 1994 and 1995.
What is wrong with the GDP?
By Jan Hanson, exerpted from his The Genuine Progress Indicator (1995). Weakness of GNP/GDP as indicator of economic health.
Low wages called biggest economic threat
By Les Bayless, in the People’s Weekly World, 16 September, 1995. Low wages, not federal deficit, biggest danger to US economic well-being.
Proposed Federal Worker Registry Threatens Business and Labor
Glenn Garvin, in Reason magazine, October, 1995.
Greedy banking bandit rips of $54 million from American students and families through federal Student Loan Program
From IBTComm, 10 October 1995. Citibank’s direct student loans.
Of balanced budgets and recession
By Victor Perlo, in People’s Weekly World, 16 December 1995.
Marx - still valid
By Victor Perlo, in People’s Weekly World, 20 April 1996. Evaluates the economic theories of Paul Krugman and compares them with John Maynard Keynes.
‘Rebuild America’—Jobs bill gathers steam
From People’s Weekly World, 15 February 1997. Martinez Jobs Bill (public works program).
Oakland city council backs jobs bill
By Marilyn Bechtel, in People’s Weekly World, 17 May 1997. Martinez Jobs Bill.
Jobs bill now has 50 co-sponsors in Congress
By Evelina Alarcon, in People’s Weekly World, 7 June 1997. The Martinez Public Works Jobs Bill (HR-950).
Prava Today, The New York Times Tomorrow
By Richard Grossman, 23 June 1997. For a century the political powers of democracy have fallen into hands of corporations such as the tobacco industry.
Depression? Not yet, anyway
By Victor Perlo, in People’s Weekly World, 2 August 1997. Stock market take-off based on intensified exploitation of labor attracts foreign capital to US investment.
One nation, divisible. As government’s role recedes, capitalism and democracy clash
By Lester C. Thurow, in The Boston Globe, 9 September 1997. Contradiction between capitalism and democracy.

Structural adjustment, neoliberalism and privatization

Reduce Aid for Dependent Corporations to Fund Working Poor
By Pat Gowens, Editor, Welfare Mother’s Voice. 28 February 1995.
Privatization resources available
By Warren Fretwell, AFGE Local 3342, 1 September 1995.

US international trade

NAFTA’s corporate con artists
By Sarah Anderson & Kristyne Peter, in CovertAction Quarterly, 1 September 1995. The politics of NAFTA’s passage in Congress.
Teamsters on New GAO Study: Trade Deals Like NAFTA Threatening U.S. Food Safety
PRNewswire, 29 May 1999. Lax food safety inspections at border because of skyrocketing food imports, due especially to NAFTA.

Environment

A High-wage, low-waste future, Part 1
Rachel’s Environment & Health Weekly, #458, 7 September 1995.
US greenhouse gas emissions continued to rise in 1994
Energy Information Administration releases latest data, Global Change Electronic Edition, November 1995.
President accepts final report on sustainable development. New Baseline information systems key to achieving goals
FINS Special Report, 8 March 1996. President’s Council on Sustainable Development assumes there is no contradiction between economic growth, environmental protection, and social equity.
Frogs give warning
Peter Montague, in Rachel’s Environment & Health Weekly, 10 October 1996. Increase in amphibian deformities.
Labor, environmentalists play on the same team
By Nick Bart, in People’s Weekly World, 18 January 1997. In Connecticut, Sierra Club and labor see eye to eye.