What might financial services look like if there were more emphasis on the impact of our work on our clients?
Economics
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
How can we transform the U.S.-Mexico border? Opportunity zones.
Forget the antiquated concept of walls. Opportunity zones can secure the border while providing economic opportunity to both workers and investors.
Posted inFaith, GoodNews
GoodNews: Giving back, not giving up as federal shutdown continues
An epic battle of ill will between House Democrats and the Trump administration extended into late January as the longest partial shutdown of the federal government in history continued.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Despite ‘zero poverty’ promise in Argentina, poverty is on the rise
Soup lines are longer, more people depend on charities to get by, and more live on the streets or have joined the burgeoning populations of Argentina’s impoverished villas.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
What does a wave of U.S. and Canadian strikes say about the future of labor?
Strikes have likewise been prominent in Canada’s southern neighbor over the last year. Teachers in West Virginia made national headlines when strikes across the state won higher wages from a Republican governor and legislature
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
A 50-year farm bill can break our wasteful patterns of production and consumption
The latest five-year farm bill continues a pattern of subsidizing corporations while squeezing every last drop of use out of farm families and cropland.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
In Brazil, Bolsonaro, the ‘Trump of the Tropics,’ takes office
Mr. Bolsonaro’s far-right rhetoric during the campaign has led to uncertainties about his policies as president and drawn international concern about the course he will set for the nation.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
Are the U.S. and China engaged in a trade war? Depends on whom you ask.
The press in China does not make any mention of an impending “trade war”—only trade frictions.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Tax incentives for Amazon? Less than prime.
The principle of subsidiarity is poorly served in these cases—when U.S. cities and states act as if they are in an economic Cold War with one another and the “arms race” of tax incentives helps only a handful of already successful private companies.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Theresa May fumbles toward a no-deal Brexit
The British state continues to make preparations for the growing possibility of a no-deal exit, an outcome sufficiently plausible that it is spending large sums recruiting new staff and renting warehouse space for key supplies, such as E.U.-produced medicine, that may abruptly prove hard to come by.