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The first obvious step right now for fighting stagflation is for Trump to dump his tariff policies.

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The Labor Education That Workers Need Most

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Issue 339: November/December 2018

Reindustrialization in the Granite State

Marie Duggan

Part III of the Series “Deindustrialization in the Granite State”: Diamond Turning in the Age of Impatient Finance | Read more »
Trying Again for Full Employment

Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg

As prominent progressives talk up a federal job guarantee, what can we learn from earlier attempts to legislate full employment? | Read more »

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the regulars

editor’s note Jobs for All
the short run
up against the wall street journal Donald in Wonderland
[sources for this article available here]
in reviewAnne Lowrey, Give People Money; Sharon McCornell-Sidorick, Silk Stockings and Socialism
economy in numbers The Global Recovery from the Financial Crisis
ask dr. dollar Does Short-Selling Harm the Economy?