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Employment
July 19, 2023
Dean Baker
Chicago Has a Pension Crisis, but It’s Not Progressives’ Fault
One recent media report is emblematic of the kinds of errors the press makes when it sees a chance to put pressure on a Black progressive mayor.
May 26, 2023
Timothy Noah
Why Workers Will Be Treated Better in the Future
A new book shows that paying frontline workers well makes good business sense. But that isn’t why it will happen.
April 14, 2023
Timothy Noah
Why Remote Work Sucks
It makes you hate your co-workers, and it makes your boss want to fire you.
April 12, 2023
Timothy Noah
The Inflation Crisis Is Over. You’ll Never Guess Who Deserves the Credit.
Jay Powell? The Fed? Joe Biden? Congress? The one percent? No, no, no, no—and definitely no.
February 25, 2023
Jason Linkins
Teachers With Night Jobs at Amazon Are Not a Feel-Good Story
Beneath a teasing, pleasing image lies a tale of unaddressed hardship.
December 21, 2022
Timothy Noah
The American Holiday Tradition of Firing Workers for No Reason
It’s that time of year when bosses look at their balance sheets and send employees packing. Legally, they don’t even have to explain why—and usually, they don’t.
March 10, 2022
Timothy Noah
The Great Resignation Shows That Managers Need Unions as Much as Workers Do
Growing evidence suggests that businesses lack the ability to address worker dissatisfaction. Time to restore an old model.
February 14, 2022
Timothy Noah
A Wage-Price Spiral? Unfortunately, the “Wage” Part of That Equation Isn’t Cooperating
Some economists deny that “wage-price spirals” exist. They do. But we’re not in one. And in a way, that’s a shame.
November 23, 2021
Grace Segers
Nonprofit Organizations Are About to Get Hit With a Big Bill to Help Pay for the Nation’s Infrastructure
Tucked away in the bipartisan law is a retroactive repeal of a vital tax credit that helped struggling employers retain their workforce during the pandemic.
October 20, 2021
Timothy Noah
Want to Understand the Labor Shortage? Ask a Shrink.
The best economists right now are epidemiologists—and a psychologist in Texas who’s become the village explainer of the “Great Resignation.”
September 6, 2021
Michael Tomasky
No, Low-Wage Workers Aren’t Lazy. They’re on Strike.
Talking heads who blame government handouts for the labor shortage are missing the point. People are sick of crap jobs at crap wages.
January 12, 2021
Work Sucks
An exploration of how we work, why we work, and when we might stop
June 5, 2020
Timothy Noah
Donald Trump Is Celebrating the Wrong Economic Accomplishment
The president wants credit for a largely illusory blip of improvement in the job market. He should be going all-in on the $600 sweeteners.
May 20, 2020
Matt Ford
Donald Trump’s Never-Ending War on Numbers
The president has spent most of his career fudging the math, but his outstanding debt to the truth is finally coming due.
March 4, 2019
Jonathan Malesic
How to Save Americans From the Hell of Work
Elites are "miserable" in their jobs. Millennials are burned out. Can religion, loosely defined, help us reclaim our free time and find meaning in our lives?
June 28, 2018
Haidee Chu
Spurned by Harley-Davidson, Trump courts Foxconn.
August 9, 2017
Jonathan Malesic
Parenting Is Not a “Job,” and Marriage Is Not “Work”
Yes, they're hard to do. But our narrow moral vocabulary for describing non-professional pursuits is making our lives worse.
July 27, 2017
Moira Donegan
Jeff Sessions wants to make sure that you can be fired for being gay.
June 26, 2017
Clio Chang
Has Seattle’s minimum wage hike backfired? Not so fast.
May 16, 2017
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