Was It a Good Jobs Report or a Bad One?

The Latest Unemployment Report from the National Jobs for All Network

Frank Stricker Oct 24, 2026

Tax Billionaires, Save Lives: California’s Proposition 40 Is Met With a Heap of Meritless Objections

A one-time tax on the super wealthy is an important step toward greater equality.

John Miller Oct 21, 2026

How to Fund a Fairer Economy—and Reduce Inequality

How can we fund universal childcare, Medicare for All, and a green economy while reducing inequality? A new plan shows how taxing wealth and corporate profits more fairly—and cutting wasteful spending—could pay for a fairer, more prosperous economy.

Nancy Folbre Oct 15, 2026

Issue 232: November/December 2000

features

Candidates and Consequences

The dollars &Amp; Sense Collective
Privatizing Social Security is Bad, Particularly for Women

Cahterine Hill
Special Section on Mexico
- Where Now for Mexico?
  
  Alejandro Reuss
- The Isthmus of Tehantepec
  
  Wendy Call
  
  An Island in an Electoral Storm
- Coming Close to Clean
  
  Wendy Call
  
  A View of the Mexican Elections from Oaxaca
- "To Lead by Obeying"
  
  Zapatista National Liberation Army
- Into the Frying PAN
  
  Dan La Botz
  
  Mexican Labor Faces Its Greatest Crisis
Land Reform

Mackie J. Mcleod

Unfinished Business for the African Century

the regulars

the short runThe Best Drugs Money Can Buy
active cultureStanding Up to Standardized Tests
commentMore than a Seat at the Table
making sensePopular Economics Education / The Repeal of the Estate Tax
ask dr. dollarSecret Stock Stabilization?
economy in numbersDiet Coke and Dom Perignon