From stagnant wages and rising prices to widening inequality, the economic forces behind voters’ growing discontent reveal a deeper, decades-long problem.
How Federal Reserve policies, the recession they triggered, and broader political and economic changes weakened workers’ power and helped usher in an era of extreme inequality.
Akin Jimoh is a Nigerian science and health writer and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He holds two masters degrees,
