The Department of Labor plans to reverse the neoliberal-era gutting of a law that stopped contractors from bidding down wages in federal procurement.
industrial policy
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Green Industrial Policy in Deep-Red Georgia
In the former carpet capital of the world, a solar manufacturing boom is taking hold. Will conservative residents credit Biden’s industrial policy?
Posted inEconomic Policy
Building Power Is Not Optional
A response to Ezra Klein, who thinks I’m wrong to suggest that coalition support is the way to political and policy success in green industrial policy
Posted inTAP
Power and Progressivism
Today on TAP: Ezra Klein and David Dayen debate obstacles to progressive gains. (I think Dayen wins, but judge for yourself.)
Posted inWorking in America
TSMC Phoenix Cuts Electrician Pay and Sends In Taiwanese Workers
After 50 union electricians left, TSMC reinstated incentive pay and offered 25 non-union workers dispatched from Taiwan.
Posted inWorking in America
Unionized Workers at Blue Bird Hit the Next Hurdle: a Contract
An assist from Biden administration electric bus subsidies helped pave the way to victory at a plant in right-to-work Georgia. But workers say tensions with management have grown.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Death of an Economic Theory
The notion that public investment crowds out private spending has taken a beating lately.
Posted inEconomic Policy
It’s Hamiltonian! It’s Jeffersonian! It’s Bidenomics!
The president’s economic policies combine the best elements of our economic heritage.
Posted inPolitics
Can Democrats Sell ‘Bidenomics’?
The substance is there. But the sales apparatus isn’t yet.
Posted inWorking in America
TSMC to Bring 500+ More Migrant Workers to Arizona
The chipmaking giant, which expects to receive up to $15 billion in federal tax credits and grants for its Arizona facility, says U.S. workers are not up to the job.