Laura Orlando - 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

Laura Orlando is a member of the Dollars & Sense collective and the director of the ReSource Institute for Low Entropy Systems [http://www.riles.org/], a non-profit concerned with public health and th

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Issue 240

Industry Attacks on Dissent: From Rachel Carson to Oprah

Forty years after the publication of Silent Spring, corporations are still producing poisons--and still trying to keep critics from fighting back.

Laura Orlando Mar 1, 2002

Issue 235

Sustainable Sanitation

A Global Health Challenge

Laura Orlando May 1, 2001