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Government claims plan would save Albertans money, but economist says it comes with big risks.

Decline of the USA, Rise of the Struggles? The USA, as the world’s leading capitalist nation, is economically, politically and morally bankrupt. Resistance is picking up steam at home: in 2018 and 2019 there were more strikes, and more large ones, than at any time in more than two decades. In 2020, there were only seven strikes with 1,000 or more participants, but the country witnessed the largest wave of protests in its history. [1] Rising unemployment and poor health care during the pandemic exacerbated the general level of immiseration. The people (15 to 26 million, according to polls) w...

by Tracy Neumann Tracy Neumann is an Associate Professor of History at Wayne State University. She specializes in transnational and global approaches to twentieth-century U.S. history, with an emphasis on cities and the built environment. She is the author of Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America  (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) and of essays on urban history and public policy.  Diamond, Andrew J. and Thomas J. Sugrue, eds.  Reviewed by Tracy Neumann Compared to their urbanist counterparts in other disciplines, urban historians—or at le...