Bill Fletcher, Jr. - Dollars & Sense

Where Have All the New Jobs Gone?

Job creation has come to a near halt. What explains employers’ reluctance to create new jobs in an expanding economy?

John Miller Oct 20, 2025

November/December 2025

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.

Nick French Oct 17, 2025

Left Hook Economics

Taxing the Top

In a world in which some people keep getting way more than they need, while others can hardly get by, Robin Hood starts to look better and better.

Nancy Folbre Oct 15, 2025

Bill Fletcher, Jr., is the president of TransAfrica Forum, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit educational and organizing center formed to raise awareness in the United States regarding issues facing t

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D&S BLOG

Reflections on a Xenophobic Speech

By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Anticipating and sitting through President Trump’s address to Congress last night was arduous, to say

Bill Fletcher, Jr. Mar 1, 2017

Issue 253

The Haiti Crisis: Aristide Is Not the Issue

One of the biggest mistakes people have made looking at the recent Haitian crisis has been to focus on the

Bill Fletcher, Jr. May 1, 2004