9: Public Policy
Comedy
Colbert Report: Taxes on the wealthy: "class warfare"
Colbert Report: Broadening the tax base - people who don't pay federal income tax
Colbert Report: "trickle down" economic theory
Daily Show: Ratings Agencies - financial reform
Fiscal Policy Rap: Keynes vs. Hayek
Fiscal Policy Rap: Keynes vs. Hayek (Round 2)
Daily Show: Tax Reform part 2 part 3
Colbert Report: Anniversary of Financial Collapse, Economic and Social Welfare Policy part 2
Colbert Report: Economic Troubles
Daily Show: Food Stamps part 2
Daily Show - Third World Health Care - Knoxville, Tennessee
Daily Show - Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell on the Death Tax (Estate Tax)
The Daily Show explains the United Nations
John Oliver: Municipal Violations
John Oliver: Paid Family Leave
John Oliver: Prescription Drugs: Marketing to Doctors
John Oliver: Civil Asset Forfeiture
John Oliver: Mandatory Minimums
Economic and Tax Policy
Bill Moyers: Former Reagan administration official Bruce Bartlett discusses tax misconceptions
Bill Moyers: Winner-Take-All Politics and the Winner-Take-All Economy
Bill Moyers: Richard Wolff on economic inequality and wages part 2
Bill Moyers: Susan Crawford on the digital divide and slow/inefficient US internet
Bill Moyers: Yves Smith and Dean Baker on the Secretive TransPacific Partnership and Economic Policy
Bill Moyers: Paul Krugman on Economic Inequality
Article: Workers not gaining from increases in productivity
Article: Data on the stagnation of the middle class
Article: More interesting economic data
Article on wealth distribution and race
More on racial economic differences
Fifty years after March on Washington, economic gap between blacks, whites persists
The typical household, now worth a third less
Rolling Stone on corporate tax avoidance
The American middle class is no longer the world's richest
Kristof: It's Now the Canadian Dream (lots of interesting international comparison)
Burger King pays living wages...in Denmark
How a Worker-Owned Business Model in Spain Is Keeping Inequality in Check
There’s a Reason Doing Taxes Sucks So Much
The death spiral of an American family (archive)
Social Welfare Policy
Richard Wilkinson on how economic inequality affects nearly all social problems His website
Explanation of Social Security (Khan Academy)
Article about welfare reform, TANF
Article: Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It
Article about the large increase in disability
How Other Nations Pay for Child Care. The U.S. Is an Outlier.
Low Literacy Levels Among U.S. Adults Could Be Costing The Economy $2.2 Trillion A Year (archive)
UN study on international maternity and paternity policy (full study)
Article: SAT scores highly correlated with parental income
Article: Income Inequality is Costing the U.S. on Social Issues
How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality
C-SPAN: The Future of Social Security Lesson
C-SPAN: The History of Federal Entitlement Programs in the U.S. Lesson
Healthcare Policy
Frontline: Sick Around the World
Time article "Bitter Pill" about health care costs More on health care costs
Study finds UK healthcare system best, US worst (full study)
Article: Young adults skip health care as medical debts rise
Take the Generic, Patients Are Told. Until They Are Not.
Sky-High Deductibles Broke the U.S. Health Insurance System
Intelligence Squared: Medicare for All Debate
100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt
A Huge Threat to the U.S. Budget Has Receded. And No One Is Sure Why.
Criminal Justice
Map: Worldwide Use of the Death Penalty
Article about famous prison in Norway
Interesting graphic on international police shootings - features Stockton
How America executes its prisoners
Sentenced to Life as Boys, They Made Their Case for Release
National Security Policy
Graphic of Worldwide Nuclear Arsenals more
National Security Agency Spying Article
Glenn Greenwald on secrecy, transparency and the war on terrorism
Bill Moyers: Nick Turse on the Vietnam War
Time Lapse of Nuclear Explosions (1945-1998)
Politico: America's 25 Most Awkward Allies (in depth articles)
Banned By 119 Countries, U.S. Cluster Bombs Continue to Orphan Yemeni Children
Intervention in civil wars ‘far more likely in oil-rich nations’
US Provides Military Assistance to 73 Percent of World’s Dictatorships
How the Pentagon Uses a Secretive Program to Wage Proxy Wars (archive)
Congressional Research Service: Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2022 (updated version?)
The Unseen Scars of Those Who Kill Via Remote Control
The U.S. drops an average of 46 bombs a day: Why should the world see us as a force for peace?
After a Year of Biden, Why Do We Still Have Trump’s Foreign Policy?
Environmental Policy
EPA finds 55 percent of rivers and streams in US in poor condition
Obama administration moves ahead with sweeping rules requiring cleaner gasoline
Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers
Cost Of College Degree In U.S. Has Increased 1,120 Percent In 35 Years (another article on topic)
Bill Moyers: How Money Rules Washington
