Where Have All the New Jobs Gone?

Job creation has come to a near halt. What explains employers’ reluctance to create new jobs in an expanding economy?

John Miller Oct 20, 2025

November/December 2025

New York City Nurses Confront an Austerity Avalanche

Medicaid cuts are being used to push austerity in hospitals’ contract negotiations with nurses, even as some hospitals dabble in financial speculation and their CEOs rake in millions.

Nick French Oct 17, 2025

Left Hook Economics

Taxing the Top

In a world in which some people keep getting way more than they need, while others can hardly get by, Robin Hood starts to look better and better.

Nancy Folbre Oct 15, 2025

January/February 2019

The Economics of Residential Rent Control

Stephen Barton

A Not-So-Simple Matter of Supply and Demand | Read more »
A Green Job Guarantee

John Miller

A federal job guarantee would alter the balance of power in the labor market in favor of workers. | Read more »
Neoliberalism Unchained

James M. Cypher

Jair Bolsonaro and the Rise of the Extreme Right in Brazil | Read more »

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the regulars

editor’s note The Right and Resistance
the short run
making sense France’s Gilets Jaunes
in reviewThe Museum of Capitalism’s Boston Residency
economy in numbers The Unequal, and Unrepresentative, Senate
ask dr. dollar Is “MMT” an answer for the U.S.? For Greece?
45th anniversary reprints From January 1975: Work Stoppages