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EnvironmentUS Hurricane Ida Showed Us that Our Infrastructure Isn’t Ready for Climate Change

The infrastructure bill in Congress is a step forward because we desperately need infrastructure investments.

Algernon Austin / September 07, 2021

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Economic Crisis and RecoveryEnvironment Debt Doesn’t Go Away Just Because Senator Manchin and Others in Washington Choose Not to Think About It

Senator Manchin wants to pretend that this climate debt does not exist. He only wants to look at the debt that comes from the government directly borrowing money.

Dean Baker / September 02, 2021

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EnvironmentFederal Reserve Cheap Talk from the Fed on Global Warming?

It’s easy for a high-level executive to say that they didn’t pay attention to the rantings of some obscure economist, it’s much harder for them to say they don’t bother looking at what the Fed chair says and the research it publishes.

Dean Baker / August 13, 2021

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Environment 0.16 Percent of All Workers are Union Members Employed by Utilities

The impact of this pace of job loss in the utility sector would be dwarfed by other factors, like government-granted patent and copyright monopolies or the overall unemployment rate, in determining the extent of inequality in the country.

Dean Baker / July 16, 2021