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Monthly Jobs Analysis

Jobs in Turbulent Times

Monthly jobs report from the National Jobs for All Network (May 2025 and April Too)

Frank Stricker Jun 21, 2025

May/June 2025

Worker Power Comes from Workers

What we can learn from Asian garment-worker uprisings.

Amanda Page-Hoongrajok Jun 16, 2025

May/June 2025

A Trillion Dollars in One Year, and No New Taxes

The Wall Street Journal editors make it clear whose side they’re on.

John Miller Jun 2, 2025

Issue 376: January/February 2025

Tariffs, Deportations, and Tax Cuts for the Rich

John Miller

Economists agree: Trump’s proposed policies would be bad for the U.S. economy. | Read more »
Migration on the Mon

Kalena Thomhave

Visiting a Pennsylvania town that was vilified by Trump. | Read more »
First as Farce, Then as Tragedy

Jared Abbott

Explaining Trump’s Reelection | Read more »

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Bill Barclay

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editors’ note Me or Your Lying Eyes?
the short run
cartoon The Criminalizing Homelessness Cycle
two cents
economy in narrative The Class Divide in High Resolution
in review Power and Progress, by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson