Julian Jacobs - 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

JULIAN JACOBS is a Fulbright Scholar, researcher, public speaker, and journalist. His work focuses on inequality in the United States, with an emphasis on how digital technology exacerbates the gap be

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Issue 350

The Dangers of Private Debt: High levels of household and corporate debt in the U.S. are making inequality worse and could make the recession deeper

The U.S. economy is in a bad way. An unprecedented pandemic-borne recession that saw the highest rate of swift

Julian Jacobs Sep 1, 2020