Katherine Sciacchitano - 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

Katherine Sciacchitano is a former labor lawyer and organizer. She currently teaches at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Maryland.

4 articles

Issue 302

Making Labor Pay

Recent battles in Wisconsin and San Jose show why we need universal pensions.

Katherine Sciacchitano Sep 1, 2012

Issue 296

Rank-and-File Economics

Fighting for a Wage- and Job-Led Recovery

Katherine Sciacchitano Sep 1, 2011

Issue 288

W(h)ither the Dollar?

The U.S. trade deficit, the global economic crisis, and the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency.

Katherine Sciacchitano May 1, 2010

Issue 274

From NAFTA to the SPP

Here comes the Security and Prosperity Partnership, but--what security? whose prosperity?

Katherine Sciacchitano Jan 1, 2008