Ricky Baldwin - Dollars & Sense

No Matter How You Look at It, the Big Beautiful Bill is a Monstrosity

Here are three views of the bill's horrific distributional consequences.

John Miller Jul 7, 2025

Left Hook

What’s Different About Today’s Government Deficit and Debt?

As of today, the U.S. government’s current deficit and debt are indeed currently at unprecedented levels for peacetime—once we account for them appropriately.

Robert Pollin Jul 1, 2025

Left Hook

No Tax on Tips

Even the stand-alone No Tax on Tips Act would do far too little to better the lot of low-income workers, even tipped workers.

John Miller Jun 27, 2025

Ricky Baldwin is a father of twins, labor activist and writer, whose articles have appeared in Extra!, Z Magazine, Labor Notes and elsewhere. He recently moved to Urbana, Ill.

2 articles

Issue 255

Free Markets and Death Squads

The U.S.-backed regime in Haiti is violently cracking down on worker organizing.

Ricky Baldwin Sep 1, 2004

Issue 249

Tyson Workers Holding the Line… and the Pepperoni

Less than 500 pepperoni workers on strike against Tyson Foods in the tiny Wisconsin town of Jefferson are staring down

Ricky Baldwin Sep 1, 2003