When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor
From Nixon’s wage controls to today’s interest rate hikes, the fight against inflation has targeted labor.
January/February 2026
These are all the articles from the January/February 2026 issue that have been posted online. To see the full table of contents for this issue, go to https://www.dollarsandsense.org/issue-382/
3 articles
Trump’s Bifurcated Economy
The labor market, economic growth, and the stock market part ways in today’s ever-more unequal economy.
Starving the Safety Net
The government shutdown’s pause in SNAP payments was a preview of how the coming cuts to the safety-net program will reverberate through communities.