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Interview: Short Staffing and Work Intensification
Mike Prokosch | May 22
A D&S Debrief interview with Mike Prokosch about his article on short staffing and work intensification in the U.S. economy.
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Short Staffing
Mike Prokosch | May 15
Deliberately hiring too few people—always one of employers’
favorite methods of work intensification—is reaching new extremes.
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D&S Authors on Trump’s First 100 Days
D&S Authors | April 30
John Miller, Arthur MacEwan, Zoe Sherman, and Marie Christine Duggan on Tariffs and the War on Workers and the Planet..
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The Unemployment News and What's Ahead
Frank Stricker | April 23
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network.
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Interview: Trump’s Tariffs and Stagflation
An Interview with John Miller | April 17
D&S columnist John Miller explains how the Trump tariffs risk stagflation—inflation combined with economic stagnation.
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The Calm Before the Storm
Frank Stricker | March 31
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network.
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The Monster That Government Made
Marie Christine Duggan | March 23
How Elon Musk used government loans and subsidies to enrich himself.
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Why Is the World Bank Attacking Land Reform in the Philippines?
David Bacon | March 15
The proposed market-oriented SPLIT reforms, which the bank supports, would undermine the country’s coops.
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Trump’s Dumb and Dumber Tariffs
John Miller | March 11
The Failure of Hyperglobalization and the Threat to Democracy
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The Burning of (Parts of) Los Angeles
Bill Barclay | February 21
Explaining the natural and human causes of the recent fires—and dispelling the myths.
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Tariffs, Deportations, and Tax Cuts for the Rich
John Miller | January 31
Economists agree: Trump’s proposed policies would be bad for the U.S. economy.
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Getting Better All the Time?
Frank Stricker | January 30
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network.
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Migration on the Mon
Kalena Thomhave | January 23
Visiting a Pennsylvania town that was vilified by Trump. | Read more »
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First as Farce, Then as Tragedy
Jared Abbott | January 15
Explaining Trump’s Reelection | Read more »
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Dollars & Sense 50th-Anniversary Interviews
David Bacon, Emily Kawano, Yvonne Liu, Arthur MacEwan, and Zoe Sherman | December 31
Two sets of interviews on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Dollars & Sense | Listen »
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Imagining 50 Years From Now
Nancy Folbre, Robert Pollin, David Bacon, Emily Kawano, and Yvonne Yen Liu | December 26
Visions of People-Centered U.S. and Global Economies | Read more »
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Five Decades of Stagnant Wages
Frank Stricker | December 21
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network.
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The Other Villains in U.S. Health Care:
Private Equity Firms
Steve Tarzynski | December 8
What one state is doing about the PE takeover of the industry.
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Domestic Workers: A New Face of Solidarity
Interviews with David Bacon | November 20
In the United States, Canada, and Mexico domestic workers have similar problems, but have taken different directions in trying to force a change.
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From Nixonomics to Trumponomics
Nick French | November 10
The 50-Year Evolution of the GOP
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What Trump Can and Can’t Do to Immigrants
DAVID BACON | November 6
Still relevant from 2017: Understanding how the economic system Trump and his appointees will operate in constrains immigration policy. Read more »
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Harris’s Anti-Price Gouging Plan
John Miller | November 5
Will it gore the market? Hardly!
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The Mainstream View vs. the Full Count
Frank Stricker | October 24
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network.
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A Carbon Tax Alone
Will Not Solve Climate Change
John Miller | October 16
It’s simplistic and insufficient, and it endangers net-zero emissions.
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Few Big Changes
Frank Stricker | October 2
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network.
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Just Follow the Money
Chris Maisano | September 25
To see whose interests the two parties represent, look at who their billionaire funders are.
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Listen to an interview with Chris Maisano here.
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As Boeing Cracks, Is It Capitalism or Kafka?
Marie Christine Duggan | September 13
To understand the decline of product quality at the aerospace firm, listen to whistleblowers and watch management’s bizarre behavior.
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Workers in the GoFundMe Economy
Taki Manolakos | September 9
How liberal elites fail to understand economic anxiety.
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Is the World Cup Worth It?
Saurav Sarkar | September 2
The 2026 tournament will mean big money—but for whom?
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Unemployment Keeps Ticking Up
Frank Stricker | August 24
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network.
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Trump Tax Cut Redux
John Miller | August 14
Out of the frying pan, into the fire?
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Are We on the Verge?
Frank Stricker | July 26
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network.
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Egalitarian Production
AN INTERVIEW WITH MONIQUE WALTON | July 19
A new film tells a story about people who are incarcerated and uses a novel production model. | Read more »
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Assessing Bidenomics
Nick French | July 12
Is the Biden administration’s economic policy a break with neoliberal orthodoxy, or more of the same? | Read more »
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A Battle Over Copper in Colombia
Austin Landis | July 1
In the fertile heart of the Andes, a local tug-of-war reveals the dilemmas of mining for metals critical to decarbonization.
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What Labor Shortages?
Frank Stricker | June 30
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network.
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What Is the State of Organized Labor?
Arthur MacEwan | June 13
Whatever its state, there’s no basis for “fortress unionism.”
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Neither the Best nor Good
John Miller | May 23
The Facts of the Trump Economic Record in Context
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Canadians Catch Strike Fever Too
Barry Eidlin | May 14
A massive strike wave made serious gains, but it left many workers wanting more.
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(Mostly) Useful Government Numbers
Frank Stricker, illustrated by Kevin Moore | May 1
About Poverty, Jobs, and Unemployment
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One Year After the New York Nurses’ Strike,
What Comes Next?
Nick French | April 22
Lessons on the Power of the Strike
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License to Sue
Sam Knight | April 10
The Sordid History of Investor-State Dispute Settlement Tribunals
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Forced Labor vs. Forced Idleness
Tyler Bowman | March 27
How profit and revenue distort prison labor,
as viewed from the inside. | Read more »
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The U.S. Corporations Profiting
from the Israeli Occupation
Nick French | March 10
Many U.S.-based companies are profiting from business with Israel, enabling the Israeli state’s crimes against Palestinians. | Read more »
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Dangerous Inflection Point
Bill Barclay | March 2
Is China’s growth model exhausted? | Read more »
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Getting Better All the Time?
Frank Stricker | February 19
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network. | Read more »
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Inequality and Climate Change
Arthur MacEwan | February 7
The power of the rich is making it even harder to halt climate change than it has to be. | Read more »
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Boeing, Product Safety,
and Financialization (Revisited)
An interview with Marie Duggan | January 21
Management at Boeing directed free cash away from investment in workers and innovation and toward dividends and stock buybacks, compromising safety.. | Read more »
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Back to Normal?
Frank Stricker | January 20
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network. | Read more »
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A Country of Mini-Millionaires?
John Miller | January 11
The Wall Street Journal’s rosy take on the latest Federal Reserve wealth report.
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Union Democracy Stands Up
Barry Eidlin | December 30
Workers’ struggles will determine how the latest round of
automation will affect labor. | Read more »
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Unemployment is Down, and Attitudes Are Too
Frank Stricker | December 23
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network. | Read more »
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Race Inequality, Class Inequality
Arthur MacEwan | December 16
Following up on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s suggestion that racism harms white workers too. | Read more »
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What a Mix of Goods and Bads
Frank Stricker | November 27
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network. | Read more »
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How to Ignore Childhood Poverty
Without Having to Say You’re Sorry
John Miller | November 16
The WSJ editors misread the latest Census Bureau report.
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AI and the Future of Work
Robert Ovetz | November 11
Workers’ struggles will determine how the latest round of automation will affect labor.
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Meet the Lobbyists Running Cover
for Harlan Crow and Price-Fixing Landlords
Sam Knight | October 27
The National Multifamily Housing Council took a page from Justice Clarence Thomas’ nondisclosure playbook. | Read more »
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More Bad Good News?
Frank Stricker | October 15
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network. | Read more »
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Will the World Ditch the Dollar?
Sasha Breger Bush, Nimra Bukhari, Jesselina Cordova, Nicholas Ingram, Ketsia Kabela, Jake Kai, and Vicente Tapia | September 30
War, Empire, and the Global Movement Against
U.S. Monetary Hegemony
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Not Enough Jobs, Not Enough Good Jobs
Frank Stricker | September 30
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network. | Read more »
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Death and Inequality
Arthur MacEwan | September 7
Health outcomes and death rates are strongly connected to the large economic inequality that exists in the United States. | Read more »
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True Affirmative Action
Polly Cleveland | August 31
Give those without privilege a fighting chance to get a piece of privilege. | Read more »
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The Job Numbers in July 2023:
Is There a Worker-Shortage?
Frank Stricker | August 22
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network. | Read more »
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Mixing Oil and Water
Bill Barclay | August 14
How the political economy of energy and food links Southern
California and Saudi Arabia. | Read more »
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The Potential of Tax Reform in Latin America
C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh | July 30
Some countries aim provide more crucially needed public revenues by shifting more of the tax burden to the rich and large corporations.
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The Job Numbers in June 2023:
What's the Message?
Frank Stricker | July 21
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network. | Read more »
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Putting Children to Work
John Miller | July 15
Weaker state labor laws enable a heartless solution to the labor shortage.
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Confessions of an Affirmative-Action Baby
Greg Palast | July 7
How an “undeserving” kid like me got admitted to Stanford | Read more »
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The Jobs Report for May 2023: A Mixed Bag
Frank Stricker | June 21
The monthly employment analysis from the National Jobs for All Network. | Read more »
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Silicon Valley Fractures
James M. Cypher | June 10
California’s tech-centric militarism, real estate speculation,
and crypto mania are behind the recent bank failures. | Read more »
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Stop Stock Buybacks!
Ericka Wills | May 26
Aviation unions push for restrictions on stock buybacks. | Download pdf here | Read more »
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The Fed’s 2% Inflation Target
John Miller | May 2
Good for the Rich, Not the Rest of Us
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The Inflation Reality and the Attack on Wages
Arthur MacEwan | April 19
You wouldn’t know this from newspaper headlines, statements from “experts,” or the actions of the Fed, but inflation was slow throughout the second half of 2022. | Read more »
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Essential, But Treated as Expendable
Lin Nelson | April 1
Farmworkers are vital to climate justice. | Read more »
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The Whole World Debt Crisis
Sasha Breger Bush | March 26
The debt crisis that has emerged over the past couple of years is happening in countries all around the world, and release valves to vent the pressure are scarce. | Read more »
