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A Trillion Dollars in One Year, and No New Taxes
John Miller | June 2
The Wall Street Journal editors make it clear whose side they’re on.
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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 »