Unions urge Biden and Congress to include expanded Medicare eligibility and prescription drug pricing reform in the infrastructure plan.
Read more...Hours after the Senate confirmed her nomination to the FTC, Biden tapped noted Big Tech critic Lina Khan to chair the agency.
Read more...Comprehensive NYT story examines how the private equity industry games the tax system, while the hapless IRS stands on the sidelines.
Read more...Conservatives and corporate employers are weaving an insidious web of myths, lies and exaggerations to justify maintaining low-wage jobs.
Read more...A large-scale preschool program – even one with less per-child expenditures than model preschools – can deliver long-run benefits to students.
Read more...Increases in hunger and food insecurity under Covid are significant, yet have gone largely under the radar.
Read more...Unemployment as a balancing act between workers ‘fearing the sack’ and employers ‘fearing the quit,” with employers usually winning out.
Read more...Yet another way that biased policing does financial harm to blacks and people of color.
Read more...The pandemic exacerbated intolerable poverty and economic distress in Colombia. As repression mounts, is there any way out?
Read more...How World-Bank-sponsored microlending produced widespread misery in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan: debt collectors use violence.
Read more...If inflation is linked to higher wages, that’s not bad for workers, says Bob Pollin of the Political Economy Research Institute in Amherst.
Read more...The level of the gender gap has changed over time, but women haven’t shown net progress over time.
Read more...California Assembly Bill 1319 is a convoluted scheme to create so-called co-ops designed to keep gig workers disempowered.
Read more...Mega businesses are a huuge problem. But what to do?
Read more...Unfortunately, Larry Summers still gets attention, most recently for inflation hawkery. Fortunately, it’s not hard to see through him.
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