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

Issue 211

3 articles

Issue 211

Toxic Racism

Chippewas Resist Deadly Dumping

Pratap Chatterjee May 1, 1997

Issue 211

Denmark Shows the Way

Industry has a long record of resisting even the old-style regulations for cleaner air and water--the mandates to reduce, for

Laurie Dougherty May 1, 1997

Issue 211

The Green Transformation

The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment, by John Bellamy Foster (Monthly Review Press, 1994) Is Capitalism

Skip Barry May 1, 1997