Dean Baker speaks with historian Dr. William P. Jones about his book "The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement."
Deporting immigrants will lead to job loss for immigrants - but as Ben Zipperer shows in work for the Economic Policy Institute, almost as many native-born workers could lose their jobs as deported immigrants as industries contract.
One economist mused that the president's economic advisers could make "a picture book" so they can "explain to Trump how the data are collected."
By many estimates, the increasing use of artificial intelligence is set to produce significant job losses. The prospect of serious disruption demands that we start formulating egalitarian policy solutions right now.
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This article concludes our 4-part series, Defying the Odds: How Southern Workers Organize, a co-production of NPQ & the LIFT Fund. In this series, authors share some ways how workers are successfully organizing & why these efforts merit support.
A new generation of union activists is embracing all sorts of organizing strategies, including one of the oldest tactics in the pro-union handbook: salting.
The state raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers—and employment kept rising. So why has the law been proclaimed a failure?
"As president, he cut taxes for corporations, encouraged outsourcing, and lost nearly 200,000 manufacturing jobs, including auto jobs," said Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
Many young men seem to admire Trump’s king-of-the-jungle vibe: he roars, he bellows, he boasts that no one can ever beat him (unless they cheat). He isn’t an icon of positive masculinity. He did very little for young men during his term as president
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