Not Much Change Yet

Monthly Jobs Report from the National Jobs for All Network

Frank Stricker Jul 18, 2025

Left Hook

Better Wages and Working Conditions: The Workers Will Come

While many things taught in introductory economics courses are nonsense, it seems to be true that higher wages will attract more workers.

Arthur MacEwan Jul 18, 2025

Left Hook

Medicaid Kayfabe: Fake Wrestling

The features of the bill that are likely to help ordinary people were catchy and easy to understand—reduced taxes on tips and overtime pay and a higher standard deduction for the elderly on income taxes. Yet these projected revenue losses are tiny compared to those incurred by the super rich.

Nancy Folbre Jul 15, 2025

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 »

Available only in the print edition:

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?