How the industry is positioned to shape the debate over U.S. industrial policy, and generally lobby for its interests, from within the ‘congressional watchdog’ agency
Mariam Baksh
Mariam Baksh is an investigative policy journalist in Washington, D.C.
Posted inEconomic Policy
As Union Membership Declines, Organized Labor Focuses on Nonunion Workers
A new report links the drop in union membership with the rise in income inequality. But labor activists are finding new ways to help workers.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Municipalities Dream Big on Broadband
Major internet service providers are on the defensive as smaller communities strategize to take their internet future into their own hands.
Posted inEconomic Policy
American Dream Fading Fast, Study Finds
When the American economy crashed in 2008, economists took care to use the term “Great Recession” to distinguish the severity of the first major downturn of the 21st century from the 1929 stock market crash that ended up in the history books as the Great Depression. But there’s one byproduct of the recession that has […]
Posted inWorking in America
New from the Labor Department: Overtime Pay
A conversation with economist Ross Eisenbrey, the architect of a new federal rule that’s vastly expanding overtime eligibility.