All articles by Dean Baker

World's Richest Man Tries to Defend Wealth Inequality... Bill Gates' critique of Thomas Piketty is revealing for what it overlooks...

[Editor's Note: The keynote speaker from the 2010 convention of the American Federation of Teachers has continued his rampage through logic in a recent discussion of income inequality and Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the 21st . . .

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The 'value-added' fraud was one of the fetishes CTU strike partly blocked... Chicago School Teachers Give Us All a Lesson... Two-thirds of parents supported the Chicago school teachers' protest in spite of the inconvenience caused by the strike.

We don't know the final terms of the settlement yet, but it appears that the Chicago public school teachers managed to score a major victory over Rahm Emanuel, Chicago's business- oriented mayor. Testing will not . . .

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