Amanda Page-Hoongrajok - Dollars & Sense

Mamdani Needs to Catch the Value Capture Bus

New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has drawn both praise and sneers for his free bus proposal. As detailed

Polly Cleveland Sep 7, 2025

Left Hook Economics

More Babies or Better Care for Newborns?

Most so-called pronatalist policies seriously underestimate the costs and risks of raising children in today’s economic environment.

Nancy Folbre Sep 2, 2025

The D&S Debrief

Interview: Military Keyensianism, Then and Now

An interview with Richard D. Wolff

Richard D. Wolff Aug 31, 2025

Amanda Page-Hoongrajok is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at Saint Peter ' s University in Jersey City, N.J. Her work focuses on the intersection of state and local g

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Garment workers in a factory in Jiaxing, China, July 21, 2008. Credit: Flickr user Matt (flickr.com/photos/memn/27164 35026), CC BY 2.0 license.

May/June 2025

Worker Power Comes from Workers

What we can learn from Asian garment-worker uprisings.

Amanda Page-Hoongrajok Jun 16, 2025

Issue 352

State and Local Government Austerity

Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past?

Amanda Page-Hoongrajok Jan 1, 2021

D&S BLOG

About the Big Win for Stop & Shop Workers

By Amanda Page-Hoongrajok On April 11th, 2019, 31,000 workers at Stop & Shop, a regional grocery store chain with

Amanda Page-Hoongrajok Apr 26, 2019