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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

May/June 2025

Worker Power Comes from Workers

What we can learn from Asian garment-worker uprisings.

Amanda Page-Hoongrajok Jun 16, 2025

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. | Order this issue or subscribe.
Ruined Rivers

Mir Aiyaz

The Hidden Crisis of Unchecked Mining in Kashmir | Order this issue or subscribe.

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