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Battling Starbucks
Saurav Sarkar | January 21
How Starbucks Workers United is challenging
the coffee empire—and how the empire is striking back. | Read more »
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Puerto Rico’s Perfect Storm
Arthur MacEwan | December 28
Colonialism, Privatization, and Trump | Read more »
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Globalization in Crisis
John Miller | December 18
Is neoliberalism on the ropes?
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Minority Checked
Robert Ovetz | December 1
Why the Inflation Reduction Act won't benefit workers or save the planet. | Read more »
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Who Can Afford to Have Kids, Anyway?
Débora Nunes | November 22
Class and Reproductive Justice | Read more »
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SWIFT, the U.S. Dollar, and the Global Political Economy of Trade
Bill Barclay | October 23
Decoding the Messaging Network That Enables International
Bank Transfers | Read more »
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Inequality and Homelessness
Arthur MacEwan | October 7
Why do millions of people experience housing problems? And in particular, why are hundreds of thousands of people in the United States homeless? | Read more »
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Two “Bad” Tax Ideas Are Better Than One
John Miller | September 17
Why we need to tax stock buybacks and close the carried interest loophole.
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Taylor’s Digital Stopwatch
Robert Ovetz | August 30
What the U.S. labor movement can learn from European workers who are organizing against “algorithmic management.” | Read more »
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Exchange on Nuclear Power and Climate Change
Leonard Rodberg and Robert Pollin | August 26
Can the climate crisis be solved with nuclear energy? Should recent events at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine give us pause? | Read more »
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Labor and the Economic Impacts
of the Covid-19 Crisis
Alejandro Reuss | August 10
An update of the author’s June 2020 article, “How the Coronavirus Crisis Became an Economic Crisis.” | Read more »
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Round Up the Usual Scapegoats
John Miller | July 27
Instead of trying to make sense of the multitude of factors that pushed up prices, the conservative economists have fixated on the usual scapegoats: government spending and tighter labor markets. | Read more »
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The Fight for $20 and a Union
Martin J. Bennett | July 13
Another California Minimum Wage Earthquake? | Read more »
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The Great Resignation and the Labor Shortage
John Miller | June 27
What makes 2022 a great year for a job makeover? | Read more »
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Bigger than Amazon
Robert Ovetz | June 11
Why Nonprofit Worker Unionizing Matters | Read more »
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Shut Up and Work!
Zoe Sherman | May 25
“Free” Labor and Unequal Freedom of Expression | Read more »
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Power, Wages, and Inequality
Arthur MacEwan | May 13
A recent government report has an unexpected focus—power in the workplace. | Read more »
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Credible Strike Threats
Robert Ovetz | May 1
The predicted wave of strikes didn’t materialize last fall,
but strike threats have proved to be effective. | Read more »
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Corporate Taxes: Less, Less, and Less
Arthur MacEwan | April 13
The experience of the last several decades has long been one of declining corporate tax rates and a declining share of federal revenue coming from corporations. | Read more »
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The New Tools of the Fed
John Miller | March 30
Monetary Policy Since the Financial Crisis | Read more »
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Solving the Climate Crisis
with Nuclear Energy Won’t Work
Robert Pollin | March 26
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has dramatized and intensified the dangers associated with operating nuclear power plants. | Read more »
