Trade, Tariffs, and Soybeans
Trump has consistently claimed that exporters, those countries who are “ripping us off,” are paying the tariffs. However, the actual data tell a different story.
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Immigrants Build the U.S. Economy
Just one item today, in preparation for Labor Day--a nice post from Mark Engler's blog over at Dissent:
New Issue, Lump of Labor, etc.
(1) 2010 Annual Labor Issue: This year's annual labor issue has printed and will ship out today or
The Fall and Rise of Hotel Worker Unionism
A review of Restoring the Power of Unions: It Takes A Movement by Julius Getman (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2010).
Same Output + Fewer Hours = Economic Crisis?
Today's economic crisis is less about the quantity of output than the distribution of income and leisure.
We Need a (Green) Jobs Program
Clean-energy investment would promote job growth for a wide swath of the U.S. workforce.
Dear Dr. Dollar:
Many times I have read (in writings by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, for example) or heard it said (by President Obama, for example) that technology is eliminating more manufacturing jobs in the United States than rising imports. Is that true? --Kevin Rath, Oakland, Calif.
Magic Mushrooms
It had been a rainy summer in Colorado. No surprise to find mushrooms as we hiked the Andrews Glacier trail
Income Inequality and Financial Crises, NYT, Aug 21
A New York Times article by Louise Story asks, "Do widening gaps between rich and poor necessarily lead to
Unemployment, Austerity, Stimulus
[N.B.: First three items by our fabulous summer intern Elizabeth Murphy, who also chose this post's Possibly
The Buyout of America
On vacation in Colorado, we drive through the Littleton shopping mall. There it is, a two-story building, black and empty
Wages Up or Down?
(1) Possibly Irrelevant Image: Which New York Times article are we to believe? (2) Bernanke Says Rising Wages Will Lift