AI Hiring, Scams and Setbacks: How Unemployment Becomes a Vicious Cycle
Sluggish labor market swells ranks of long-term unemployed, leaving some job seekers frustrated with an ever-shifting hiring landscape.
Democrats to the Working Class: Good Riddance!
Startling Advice from Fareed Zakaria
California’s Low Wage Future
Low-wage industries are forecast to lead job growth, and the share of workers 55 and older has doubled
Mexican Auto Parts Workers Face Blacklist After Union Campaign
By Charlie Saperstein and Dan DiMaggio / Labor Notes In August 2022, auto parts workers at VU Manufacturing won a landmark election to gain recognition for a new independent union,…
The Big Myth About Inequality: It Just Happened!
By Dean Baker / Beat the Press/CEPR The standard line in policy circles about the soaring inequality of the last four decades is that it is just an unfortunate outcome…
Don’t Believe the Corporate “Labor Shortage” Bullsh*t
What's really happening is more accurately described as a living-wage shortage, a hazard pay shortage, a childcare shortage, a paid sick leave shortage, and a health care shortage.
FDR Knew Exactly How to Solve Today’s Unemployment Crisis
A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solve not one but two of the country’s biggest…
Unemployment Skyrocketing? An Evolved Society Would Celebrate.
Why do we still pretend crap jobs give our lives meaning?
So Trump Loses. What Happens Then?
Joe Biden’s arrival in the Oval Office won’t alter one mega-fact: Donald Trump will hand him a monstrous economic mess.
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by Protecting Our Future
It’s been a hard year. We’re digging our way out, but without intentional policy solutions, that process will be much slower. Here's what we we need.
Plague Journal #25: Laboring for Some Hope
Unemployment is down but still high, the virus is still here but nobody seems to care and the value of unions seems lost. Time to sing!
Progressive Economist Explains Why a Full Job Guarantee Is Doable, Affordable – and Much Better than Universal Basic Income
We have seen that money can be 'found' instantly when elites deem it necessary, showing that poverty is a "feature not a bug" in the status quo.
Here’s How We Remake the Economy
The Fed's crisis response exposes the faulty logic of moralizing, pro-austerity politicians and economists.
Time to Stop Bankrolling War and the Wealthy
A jubilee moment in pandemic America? The poetry of a movement to change this country.
Nomi Prins: A Rendezvous With Destiny? Comparing the 1930s to This Crisis
Economic crashes, then and now