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Left Hook

No Tax on Tips

Nowhere Near Enough

John Miller Jun 27, 2025

Left Hook

The Stealthy Strategy to Strangle Medicaid

Republicans want to make it even harder for low-income people to get health care.

Nancy Folbre Jun 25, 2025

Monthly Jobs Analysis

Jobs in Turbulent Times

Monthly jobs report from the National Jobs for All Network (May 2025 and April Too)

Frank Stricker Jun 21, 2025

Issue 373

Trump Tax Cut Redux

John Miller

Out of the frying pan, into the fire? | Read more »
Egalitarian Production

An Interview with Monique Walton

A new film tells a story about people who are incarcerated and uses a novel production model. | Read more »
Assessing Bidenomics

Nick French

Is the Biden administration’s economic policy a break with neoliberal orthodoxy, or more of the same? | Read more »
A Battle Over Copper in Colombia

Austin Landis

In the fertile heart of the Andes, a local tug-of-war reveals the dilemmas of mining for metals critical to decarbonization. | Read more »

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Credit Squeeze

Justin Villamil

How credit rating agencies dominate the developing world. | Order this issue or subscribe.

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editors’ note Who Plans Our Economy?
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cartoon A Billionaire's Sacrifice
active culture UC’s Strike-Busting over Palestine Protests
making sense Public Higher Ed Debt Crisis
50th-anniversary reprint From 2004: Equality as the Golden Goose
economy in numbers Immigrants Create Jobs for U.S. Workers