Where Have All the New Jobs Gone?

Job creation has come to a near halt. What explains employers’ reluctance to create new jobs in an expanding economy?

John Miller Oct 20, 2025

November/December 2025

New York City Nurses Confront an Austerity Avalanche

Medicaid cuts are being used to push austerity in hospitals’ contract negotiations with nurses, even as some hospitals dabble in financial speculation and their CEOs rake in millions.

Nick French Oct 17, 2025

Left Hook Economics

Taxing the Top

In a world in which some people keep getting way more than they need, while others can hardly get by, Robin Hood starts to look better and better.

Nancy Folbre Oct 15, 2025

higher education

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D&S BLOG

Black Students Matter: Why Sanders Is Winning Young Voters

By Gerald Friedman and Mark Paul The writers are respectively Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Gerald Friedman and Mark Paul Feb 24, 2016

D&S BLOG

Friday Links: Market Basket, War and Climate Change, etc.

(1) Alejandro Reuss on Market Basket: I noticed that a Twitter account related to the low-wage worker organizing that is

D&S Admin Oct 3, 2014