Posted by guest blogger Justin Miller In college towns across America, adjunct faculty are quickly becoming the new, Ph.D.-educated working poor. If nobody noticed that adjuncts now comprise the majority of faculty in higher education, that surely changed yesterday, on what organizers deemed National Adjunct Walkout Day. The idea was to shine light on the […]
Working in America
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Libertarian Delusion
The free-market fantasy stands discredited by events. The challenge now: redeeming effective and democratic government
Posted inEconomic Policy
Workers Centers: Organizing the ‘Unorganizable’
From contract janitorial workers to day laborers, new strategies emerge for seeking justice on the job.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Failed Theory Posed by Wall Street Dems Puts Hillary Clinton in a Bind
The Hamilton Project, led by the presumed presidential candidate’s adviser Robert Rubin, serves up a prescription for the middle class that won’t help much—and defies the recommendations of her friends at CAP.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
A Talent for Storytelling
Rick Perlstein tells how Reagan imagined his way into the American psyche.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How Democratic Progressives Survived a Landslide
They ran against Wall Street and carried the white working class. The Democrats who shunned populism got clobbered.
Posted inLaw and Justice
To Check Power of Greedy Bosses, Workers Need to Bargain in New Ways
When workers’ power is diminished and people’s voices are shut out of the workplace, job quality and job standards suffer.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Here’s How to Achieve Full Employment
If we don’t get there, then many communities—particularly those of color—will be left out of the recovery.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Did Koch Brothers Just Doom America to a Future of Crumbling Roads and Tunnels?
First, their minions called for Chris Christie to cancel a much-needed rail project, and he did. Now they’ve set their sights on Congress to do much the same.
Posted inEconomic Policy
We’re Jailing the Wrong People. We Need to Jail More of the Right Ones: Corporate Criminals
Every year, workers are cheated out of tens of billions of dollars of pay—more than larceny, robbery and burglary combined.
