November/December 2023

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.

Race Inequality, Class Inequality

Arthur Macewan

Following up on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s suggestion that racism harms white workers too. | Read more »
How to Ignore Childhood Poverty
Without Having to Say You’re Sorry

John Miller

The WSJ editors misread the latest Census Bureau report. | Read more »
AI and the Future of Work

Robert Ovetz

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

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features

Will There Be a Just Transition to Electric Vehicles?

Nick French

It depends on whether unions like the UAW can prevail against automakers who prefer EV work to be low-paying and unsafe.
Stop Cheapening Mexico’s White and Native Corn

Interview by Timothy A. Wise

Mexico’s Undersecretary of Agriculture Víctor Suárez on the Campaign for Food Self-Sufficiency

the regulars

editors’ note Organizing Against Dystopia
the short run
cartoon The GOP Tax Policy Cycle
making sense Powell’s Interest Rate Reflex When Workers Flex Power
in review The Full Employment Horizon In 20th-Century America, by Michael Dennis
dr. dollar Race Inequality, Class Inequality

New York City Nurses Confront an Austerity Avalanche

Taxing the Top

Mass Deportations Drain Economic Growth

November/December 2023

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features

the regulars