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

Left Hook

The Stealthy Strategy to Strangle Medicaid

Republicans want to make it even harder for low-income people to get health care.

Nancy Folbre Jun 25, 2025

Issue 265: May/June 2006

features

Ripple Effects of Raising the Minimum Wage

Jeannette Wicks-Lim

Which workers, and how many, benefit from new minimum and living wage laws?
Gender Responsive Budgeting

Jane Midgley

Assessing the impact of government budgets on women and girls
Legalizing Human Trafficking

Basav Sen

WTO negotiations threaten to worsen the lot of migrant workers worldwide.

the regulars

the short run
letters Feedback on our Katrina issue
obituary John Kenneth Galbraith
active culture Prison phones / San Francisco housing victory
comment Corporate social responsibility: An insider's view
making sense The globalization clock
primer Class and economics
economy in numbers Immigrants and the labor market (pdf)