I spent yesterday with the great liberal journalist John Nichols. We brought him on campus to speak to our students and the general public about inequality and politics. I was.
Overall, Hillary Clinton embarrassed Donald Trump last night. But let's not kid ourselves, Trump absolutely crushed her on trade in the early part of the debate. I found it highly.
Neil Irwin had a piece on the disconnect between media coverage of the economy and the economy as actually experienced by everyday Americans: If your entire understanding of the economy.
Big Ketchup is now destroying the American working class: In a widely expected move, Kraft Heinz is cutting 2,500 jobs, the company announced Wednesday. That amounts to 5% of the.
The more that the young are unemployed, the more than the long-term stability of capitalism is threatened. It's not just the U.S., but in fact most of Europe as well,.
Why don't we pass more social programs today? Maybe because the priorities of Americans aren't the same as in the 1960s. US Jul 2 '61: For which of these sacrifices.
Andrew Sum, et al have a powerful report on the underemployed generation that is today's youth. Here's the whole report in PDF form. For young people with low levels of.
On January 13, 1874, thousands of unemployed New Yorkers met in Tompkins Square Park to protest their unemployment and poverty. There, the police would beat them in the first large-scale.
