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Wage Stagnation vs. Living Wages for U.S. Workers Today

Far from earning living wages, most U.S. workers have experienced wage stagnation since the 1970s--a trend largely obscured by political rhetoric and misinformation.

Robert Pollin Nov 3, 2025

Left Hook Economics

Inflation Haunting Halloween

A specter is haunting Halloween—the specter of inflation.

John Miller Oct 31, 2025

November/December 2025

Poverty and Deportees on the Streets in Tijuana

Photos by David Bacon and an Interview with Laura Velasco

David Bacon Oct 30, 2025

January/February 2024

Issue 370

January/February 2024

Inequality and Climate Change

Arthur Macewan

The power of the rich is making it even harder to halt climate change than it has to be. | Read more »
A Country of Mini-Millionaires?

John Miller

The Wall Street Journal’s rosy take on the latest Federal Reserve wealth report. | Read more »
Union Democracy Stands Up

Barry Eidlin

Workers’ struggles will determine how the latest round of automation will affect labor. | Read more »

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The Heavy, Unequal Burden of Student Debt

Nick French

The federal student loan payment restart is inflicting needless pain on millions of Americans.
Ruined Rivers

Mir Aiyaz

The Hidden Crisis of Unchecked Mining in Kashmir

the regulars

editors’ note We Have the Power—How Will We Use It?
the short run
cartoon “The Raises They Want Are Literally Impossible!”
making sense Wealth, Inequality, and All That
50th-anniversary reprint The Sound of Popular Economics
economy in numbers The Elimination of the Expanded Child Tax Credit
dr. dollar Inequality and Climate Change