Alvaro Bedoya - Dollars & Sense

Was It a Good Jobs Report or a Bad One?

The Latest Unemployment Report from the National Jobs for All Network

Frank Stricker Oct 24, 2026

Left Hook Economics

Tax Billionaires, Save Lives: California’s Proposition 40 Is Met With a Heap of Meritless Objections

A one-time tax on the super wealthy is an important step toward greater equality.

John Miller Oct 21, 2026

Left Hook Economics

How to Fund a Fairer Economy—and Reduce Inequality

How can we fund universal childcare, Medicare for All, and a green economy while reducing inequality? A new plan shows how taxing wealth and corporate profits more fairly—and cutting wasteful spending—could pay for a fairer, more prosperous economy.

Nancy Folbre Oct 15, 2026

Alvaro Bedoya was born in Peru and raised in upstate New York. He recently graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Social Studies, and will enter Yale Law School in the fall of 2004 to study l

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Issue 249

Captive Labor

The plight of Peruvian sheepherders illuminates broader exploitation of immigrant workers in U.S. agriculture.

Alvaro Bedoya Sep 1, 2003