Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

If you're living in the community and you own your local businesses and you're engaged in the local economy you should have a definite interest in the strength and health of your community, the caring relationships that bind people together.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.