The U.S. Care Affordability Crisis

Cuts in government spending and deportation threats against the workforce have sent costs soaring in daycare, eldercare, and long-term medical care.

Nancy Folbre Jan 21, 2026

Left Hook Economics

How to End Wars for Oil: Stop Burning Oil Altogether

Progressives all over the world are demanding that there be “no war for oil.” We must also call for the dismantlement of the world’s fossil fuel-dominant global energy infrastructure.

Robert Pollin Jan 12, 2026

Left Hook Economics

Economists, the Trump Tariffs, and Alternatives

One should not jump from the condemnation of Trump’s tariffs by economists (and others) to an acceptance of free trade as a key to economic progress.

Arthur MacEwan Jan 8, 2026

Issue 261: September/October 2005

features

Unregulated Work

SiobhÁn Mcgrath and Nina Martin

Is enforcement the next battle in the fight for workers' rights?
Turmoil in the AFL-CIO

Nathan Newman; Steve Early; Bill Fletcher, Jr.; Leon Fink; Rose Ann Demoro; and Immanuel Ness

A Dollars & Sense roundtable
Labor's Capital

Adria Scharf

Putting pension wealth to work for workers
A Deeper Shade of Green

Len Krimerman

Interview with Omar Freilla of South Bronx's Green Worker Cooperatives
Falling Off a Cliff

Keith Yearman and Amy Gluckman

Millions of garment workers worldwide stand to lose their jobs with this year's changes in global textile trade rules.

the regulars

the short run
active culture Just Garments
comment Don't blame China
making sense
up against the wall street journal Taxing wealth Swedish style
update Iraqi labor facing occupation, insurgency
dr. dollar The money supply