| Edition |
First Fantagraphics Books edition. |
| Description |
117 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
Uses illustrations and infographics to explain such vital economic issues as the minimum wage, taxes, and healthcare, advocating against the policies of global austerity, right-wing populism, and "Trumponomics." |
| Contents |
Big money. What's the Fed? How it affects you ; Saving capitalism for the many, not the few ; The reality of free trade deals ; Putting a lid on tax expenditures ; Corporate tax desertion ; Power: who has it, who doesn't ; The investments of the 158 ; Why the Koch machine is a threat to democracy -- Shams, scams, and flim-flams. Paul Ryan's seven terrible ideas ; "Right to work" is wrong for workers ; Voter suppression (and how it works) ; The Republican tax sham ; Austerity 101: the three reasons Republican deficit hawks are wrong ; The real reason Republicans want to pull the plug on Obamacare ; Hands off my Medicare! ; The cost of war ; Climate and inequality ; The facts about immigration ; Word of the year: xenophobia -- Solutions. The five principles of patriotism ; Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour ; Why liberal states won America's tax experiment ; Why the sharing economy is harming workers--and what must be done ; Four steps to solving student debt ; What is the racial wealth gap? ; The women's wealth gap ; End mass incarceration now ; Why a tax on Wall Street trades is an even better idea than you know ; Why we'll need a universal basic income ; Bernie Sanders's seven legacies -- Trumponomics. Seven signs of tyranny ; An orgy of unnecessary cruelty ; Trump's bonkers budget ; Tearing down the wall between church and state ; Trump's attack on the freedom of the press ; Trump's ten steps for turning lies into half-truths ; Trumpcare ; Trump's infrastructure scam ; Trump's big bet on coal ; The wall ; Trump's corporate tax cuts ; Trump and big banks want to repeal Dodd-Frank ; Four reasons why Trump's plan to strip the IRS is incredibly dumb ; The four dangerous syndromes of coping with Trump ; Impeachment: a how-to explainer ; Four (and maybe five) grounds to impeach Trump. |
| Subject |
Economics.
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States.
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United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-
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United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2009.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Forecasting.
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Comic books, strips, etc. (OCoLC)fst00869145
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Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
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Economics. (OCoLC)fst00902116
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Social history -- Forecasting.
(OCoLC)fst01354993
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
Since 2000
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| ISBN |
9781683960607 (hardback) |
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1683960602 (hardback) |
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