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Health Insurance for 20 Million is at Risk

If Congress fails to renew the ACA enhanced benefits, millions will be unable to access the health care they need.

John Miller Dec 11, 2025

November/December 2025

The American Dream, We Hardly Knew You

Worsening inequality leaves young adults worse off than their parents.

John Miller Dec 8, 2025

Left Hook Economics

The Motherhood Gamble

While many mothers enjoy adequate support from fathers, the risk of financial hardship looms large if the partnership comes to an end.

Nancy Folbre Dec 4, 2025

July/August 2022

Issue 361

July/August 2022

Labor and the Economic Impacts
of the Covid-19 Crisis

Alejandro Reuss

An update of the author’s June 2020 article, “How the Coronavirus Crisis Became an Economic Crisis.” | Read more »
Round Up the Usual Scapegoats

John Miller

Instead of trying to make sense of the multitude of factors that pushed up prices, the conservative economists have fixated on the usual scapegoats: government spending and tighter labor markets. | Read more »

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Exporting Water in the Era of Climate Cataclysm

Bill Barclay

Part Two of a Two-Part Series on California’s Intensive Agriculture

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