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Economics in Wonderland : : a Cartoon Guide to a Political World Gone mad and Mean

Reich, Robert B. Graphic Novel - 2017 Adult Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction / General / Reich, Robert B., Adult Graphic Novel / Reich, Robert B. 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 5 out of 5

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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.
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."

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PUBLISHED
Seattle, WA : Fantagraphics Books, [2017]
Year Published: 2017
Description: 117 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language: English
Format: Graphic Novel

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781683960607 (hardback)
1683960602 (hardback)

SUBJECTS
Economics.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-
United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2009.
United States -- Forecasting. -- 21st century
Graphic novels.