Wage Stagnation vs. Living Wages for U.S. Workers Today
Far from earning living wages, most U.S. workers have experienced wage stagnation since the 1970s--a trend largely obscured by political rhetoric and misinformation.
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Dear Dr. Dollar: With Foreign Trade, Are Progressives and Trump on the Same Page?
Progressives opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). President Donald Trump stopped U.S. engagement in the TPP and redid NAFTA. Similarly, progressives--or at least many progressives--have argued that trade arrangements between the United Stat
U.S. Agriculture Needs a 21st-Century New Deal
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Why the Climate Crisis Is Also the Crisis of Capitalism
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Our (very late) May/June 2019 issue, our Annual Labor Issue is out! Two articles from the issue are posted--Mark
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Traditional Measures of Unemployment Are Missing the Mark
We've heard it countless times in recent media accounts: The economy is at "full employment." The
Dear Dr. Dollar: Why Has the U.S. Economy Been Doing So Well?
Why has the U.S. economy been doing so well? --Anonymous, via email
The Rocket Science of Sanitation
Understanding the plight of the Indian workers who are not considered workers.