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September/October 2025

Zohran Mamdani’s Bold Program for an Affordable New York City

A rundown of the Democratic mayoral nominee's policy positions.

Nick French Sep 13, 2025

Driving Off a Cliff?

Donald Trump’s tariffs will make the U.S. auto industry less competitive and leave the industry out of step with the auto market's shift to EVs.

Bill Barclay Sep 11, 2025

Left Hook Economics

The Underestimated “Price of Parenting”

Even a low-ball estimate of the cost of time shows just how misleading an estimate based only on money expenditures really is.

Nancy Folbre Sep 9, 2025

Issue 326: September/October 2016—Annual Labor Issue

Artificial Intelligence and Unemployment

Arthur Macewan

Dear Dr. Dollar: Will artificial intelligence and the application of robotics to production really lead to massive job loss? Read more »
Jobs, Justice, and the Clean-Energy Future

Jeremy Brecher

Is there a way to escape the apparent lose-lose choice between saving the climate and saving jobs? Read more »
Class Struggle by Other Means

Chris Brooks

Massive subsidies to Volkswagen in Tennessee shows how large corporations have bled state government funds in exchange for jobs. Read more »
“Equal Pay” Is Not So Equal

John Miller

Skeptics claim that the gender pay gap is a statistical artifact, and that women already get equal pay. But they’re wrong. Read more »

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How Graduate Teaching Assistants
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An Interview with Ira Sills

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the regulars

editors’ note If You’re Not Moving Forward, You’re Moving Backward
comment Labor in the Sharing Economy | Sources for this article
the short run
in review David Rolf, The Fight for $15
economy in numbers Another Bad Jobs Day