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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 »
