Where should labor unions be? Labor unions should be where the workers are, and where the money is.
“Wealth work” is one of America’s fastest-growing industries. It includes full-time retail and service jobs at nail salons and spas, as well as that nebulous network of people contracted through through driving, delivery and other online services.
The context you need to understand job growth and unemployment in the U.S., updated every month.
With the hard right running left and the center-left abdicating, Euroskeptics could accelerate a continent-wide crisis. Global migration is on the rise as climate change drowns coastlines, river deltas and drought drives people out of arid climates.
Automation often seems like a scary new problem, but it’s neither entirely scary nor entirely new.
The grassroots movement behind the Green New Deal offers a ray of hope to the badly battered establishment: they should embrace it - make it part of the progressive agenda. We need something positive to save us from ugly wave of populism, nativism...
As prominent progressives talk up a federal job guarantee, what can we learn from earlier attempts to legislate full employment?
Even in Trump country, pro-union sentiment is rising. But can labor and its allies turn that sentiment into power?
Persistently large wealth inequality leaves many African-Americans--as well as Latinos and some parts of the Asian-American communities--in a very precarious economic situation and poorly prepared for retirement.
To most Americans, the best marker of a healthy economy will always be a decent-paying, full-time job. An economy only deserves celebrating when people with full-time jobs have rising paychecks. In America today, they don’t.
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