Jack Rasmus, professor of economics and political economy at Santa Clara University and St. Marys College, is author of Epic Recession: Prelude to Global Depression, and The War at Home: The Corporate Offensive From Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush. His forthcoming book (2011) is Obama’s Economy: Why Recovery Failed. What’s Next? Rasmus has published numerous articles in Z magazine, Critique, Amandla, Against the Current, the Dispatcher and other periodicals.
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Labor
The Trillion-Dollar Debt Ceiling Deal: Class Warfare in Action
Jack Rasmus
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Labor
The Real Deficit Culprits: Offshoring and Corporate Tax Evasion
Jack Rasmus
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Labor
The Truth Behind the Public Pensions’ Funding Gap
Jack Rasmus
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Labor
President Obama, the Jobs Crisis and Corporate America’s Game Plan
Jack Rasmus
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Labor
Obama’s State of the Union: No Jobs, but More Business Tax Cuts
Jack Rasmus
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Labor
The Truth Behind the December Jobless Numbers
Jack Rasmus
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Labor
The ‘Repo-Demo’ Party’s Three Phase Austerity Plan for America
Jack Rasmus
Labor
Why Tax Cuts Don’t—and Won’t—Create Jobs
Jack Rasmus
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Feature
Crash Landing
United Airlines' ditching of this pensions may well precipitate a national crisis
Jack Rasmus
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Dispatch
Who Benefits?
The big winners of Private Investment Accounts
Jack Rasmus