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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

Issue 332: September/October 2017Annual Labor Issue

Migration, Labor, and U.S. Policy

David Bacon | Oct 25

We all have to work, at least if you’re part of the working class. But working has become a crime for millions of people. Read more »
The Living New Deal

Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg | Oct 22

Events to celebrate New Deal achievements and advocate a “New New Deal” based on Depression-era job-creation programs. Read more »
Labor for Our Revolution

Rand Wilson and Peter Olney

The unions that supported Bernie Sanders unite in a new network. Read more »
Labor’s Southern Strategy

A Conversation Between Chris Brooks
and Gene Bruskin

Why does labor keep coming up short south of the Mason-Dixon Line? What strategies might work moving forward? Read more »

Available only in the print edition:

The Trump Supply Chain and the Art of the Sweatshop

John Miller

The supply chain for Trump garments is international, penny-pinching, and exploitative. | Order this issue or subscribe.

The Case for $15

An Interview with Jeannette Wicks-Lim

What research on the minimum wage does—and does not—tell us. | Order this issue or subscribe.

the regulars

editors’ note A World to Win
the short run
primer What happened to the working class?
ask dr. dollar Why are wages growing so slowly?