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July 14, 2020
Nick Martin
Ivanka Trump and Lockheed Martin Want You to Reach for the Stars and Stop Collecting Unemployment
The nation is slowly collapsing, and the best the White House could come up with was a repackaged version of “shoot your shot.”
June 5, 2020
J.C. Pan
After Defunding the Police, Nationalize Their Benefits
Police unions have secured some of the most robust benefit packages in the country. Why shouldn’t everyone have that?
May 12, 2020
Kate Aronoff
There Are Green Jobs Hiding in the Oilfields
Paying oil workers to clean up extraction sites and capture carbon could help both the economy and the planet.
May 7, 2020
Nick Martin
The Rise of the All-Seeing Boss
The role of the office may be changing forever, but don’t think your snooping employer isn't changing along with it.
May 1, 2020
J.C. Pan
Imagining a Real “Right to Work”
The decades-long movement to drain unions of their strength and resources has brought us to our present crisis. It’s time to redefine our terms.
March 18, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Green Jobs Are the Answer to the Coronavirus Recession
The climate case for making the government the employer of last resort
July 24, 2019
Lauren Kaori Gurley
California Looks to Give Gig Workers Their Due
AB 5, a bill that would require companies like Uber and Lyft to classify drivers as employees, could provide meaningful labor protections.
July 8, 2019
Alex Shephard
Democrats Should Attack the Trump Economy
Speaking to people left out of the current expansion won votes for the GOP in 2016; championing those who struggle today resonates even more.
July 27, 2018
Emily Atkin
Is the economy really as great as Trump says?
July 12, 2018
David Dayen
The Inevitable Death of Global Trade As We Know It
Free-trade proponents accuse Trump of imperiling a decades-old system, but a reckoning was due no matter what.
May 11, 2018
Peter-Christian Aigner
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Michael Brenes
The Long, Tortured History of the Job Guarantee
How liberals, over decades, worked to undermine a proposal that has long enjoyed public support
May 8, 2018
David Dayen
How America Broke Its Economy
Unemployment is at a 15-year low, so why aren't wages surging? Because the old rules no longer apply.
January 5, 2018
Graham Vyse
Donald Trump will regret touting the stock market surge.
August 10, 2017
Bryce Covert
Trump’s Terrible Deals
The president is claiming credit for a series of corporate investments in the U.S., even though they come with expensive strings attached.
August 10, 2017
Sarah Jones
A New Solidarity in the North Country
An unlikely coalition of Trump voters, lefty activists, and indigenous people is trying to stop the construction of a power line in New Hampshire. What does it bode for the future of politics?
July 18, 2017
Magazine
Bryce Covert
Back to Work
How Democrats can win over Americans left behind in the new economy.
May 19, 2017
Magazine
Bryce Covert
Donald Trump Is a Job Killer
He campaigned as an economic savior. So why is the president handing out pink slips?
April 7, 2017
Graham Vyse
So is the jobs report fake again?
March 10, 2017
Graham Vyse
Donald Trump’s contempt for your intelligence knows no bounds.
March 10, 2017
Graham Vyse
Trump did not add 235,000 jobs to the economy. Obama did.
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