May/June 2022

How to Fund a Fairer Economy—and Reduce Inequality

How can we fund universal childcare, Medicare for All, and a green economy while reducing inequality? A new plan shows how taxing wealth and corporate profits more fairly—and cutting wasteful spending—could pay for a fairer, more prosperous economy.

The Fight for $20 and a Union

Martin J. Bennett

Another California Minimum Wage Earthquake? | Read more »
The Great Resignation and the Labor Shortage

John Miller

What makes 2022 a great year for a job makeover? | Read more »
Shut Up and Work!

Zoe Sherman

“Free” Labor and Unequal Freedom of Expression | Read more »
Power, Wages, and Inequality

Arthur Macewan

A recent government report has an unexpected focus—power in the workplace. | Read more »

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Wage Laborers in California’s “Factories in the Field”

Bill Barclay, with Photos by David Bacon

Part One of a Two-Part Series on California’s Intensive Agriculture

the regulars

editors’ note Tipping the Balance
the short run
two cents
cartoon Slap on the Wrist
up against the wall street journal The Great Resignation
making sense Organizing the Nonprofit Sector
in review Capsule Labor Reviews
economy in numbers Current Employment and Wage Conditions

Tax Billionaires, Save Lives: California’s Proposition 40 Is Met With a Heap of Meritless Objections

How to Fund a Fairer Economy—and Reduce Inequality

When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor

May/June 2022

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars