John Miller and Jeannette Wicks-Lim

Zapping Labor: The Sharp Rise of Income Inequality Initiated in the Early 1980s

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.

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

A string of primary victories by DSA-backed candidates and other progressives—from New York to Michigan to Florida—is giving the Democratic left new leverage while putting its ambitious economic agenda back at the center of the party’s debate.

John Miller is a professor of economics at Wheaton College and a member of the Dollars & Sense collective. Jeannette Wicks-Lim is an assistant research professor at the Political Economy Research Inst

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January/February 2011

Unemployment: A Jobs Deficit or a Skills Deficit?

Politicians and economists are trying to reframe a severe jobs crunch as a problem of workers' inadequate skills.

John Miller and Jeannette Wicks-Lim Jan 1, 2011

The Political Economy of Palestine

Zapping Labor: The Sharp Rise of Income Inequality Initiated in the Early 1980s

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

John Miller and Jeannette Wicks-Lim

Unemployment: A Jobs Deficit or a Skills Deficit?