Tag: employment
Bryce Covert’s work is always worth reading and that includes her new piece on the connections between long Covid and the tight labor market. One international online study of nearly 4,000 long
Elite institutions are so excited to tame pandemic era worker power, but the reality is that workers have a lot of power and they are using it, even if it is often individually rather than collectivel

Building on yesterday’s post about how despite the low unemployment numbers, people’s lived economy is basically terrible, Jacob Hacker has a very useful op-ed in the Times on the same iss
Fresh of Amazon’s decision to engage in a nationwide scam to set cities against each other and see what goodies it could get and then settling on building in two already extremely expensive citi

When your nation lacks a job policies to employ people where they live, it opens them up to making money off the worst of the United States: in this case an ethnic cleansing campaign that relies on pr
Above: Works Progress Administration project, Utah Mittens’ daughter is pretty bright. From open borders to government-guaranteed jobs, today’s Democrats are no longer the party of FDR. ht
I am now an official member of the Fake News Industry, as I have an op-ed in the New York Times arguing for a federal job guarantee. The potential is great for helping revive depressed communities. We
Bernie Sanders has now announced his support of a federal job guarantee. This is also starting to freak out right-wing economists. They don’t even have an answer for it. “It completely undercu
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- Chasing Trains Leaving Stations
- Pathetic
- LA School Labor Deal
- Biden Wants a Unionized Campaign Staff
- We can remember it for you wholesale
- What a difference a non-reactionary NLRB makes