Dollars & Sense Issue 371 (March/April 2024)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

features 

Dangerous Inflection Point
Is China’s growth model exhausted? 
Bill Barclay

Forced Labor vs. Forced Idleness
How profit and revenue distort prison labor, as viewed from the inside. 
Tyler Bowman

Sold to the Company Store
A Day in the Life of an American Slave, Circa 2024
Raymond Williams

Will Medicaid Expansion Ever Come to Mississippi?
Ingrid Cruz
The Medicaid coverage gap affects roughly 3.5 million adults in states that haven’t adopted Medicaid expansion.

the regulars

editors’ note | Contradiction and Crisis
the short run
cartoon | Goldy on Protectionism
making sense | The U.S. Corporations Profiting from the Israeli Occupation
making sense | The Sordid History of Investor-State Dispute Settlement Tribunals
up against the wall street journal | Privatizing Medicare
50th-anniversary reprint | Palestine’s Golden Oil
economy in numbers | Southern Economic Strategy Exposed
dr. dollar | Inequality and Violent Crime+