Almost half of Americans drop out of college and are left with debt. Is it time for a bigger investment in vocational training for young people?Â
Working in America
Posted inEconomic Policy
Fashioning Justice for Bangladesh
Western multinationals are behind disasters like the Bangladesh factory collapse. Will public outrage and a new labor agreement lead to improvements for workers?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Back in the Big Labor Fold
Another union drops out of the upstart Change to Win federation and returns to the AFL-CIO.Â
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
False Concerns for the Poor
The debate over fast food strikes brings out the worst kind of hateful trashing of the working poor at Fox News.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Part-Time America
About those jobs the economy is creating—are any of them full-time?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Long Road to a Decent Economy
Jobs numbers released today show how far we are from having a healthy middle class.Â
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Least We Could Pay
What efforts to raise the minimum wage would and wouldn’t accomplish.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Moral Mondays and the South’s New Liberal Gospel
North Carolina progressives suffered devastating setbacks during this year’s right-wing legislature. But they’re ready to fight back.Â
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Subsidizing Poverty
Want to know the problem with enterprise zones? Then check out Sunday’s Riverside Press Enterprise, one of the best midsized newspapers in California. A story in it covers Governor Jerry Brown’s successful campaign to have the legislature put enterprise zones out of their misery. (Brown recently signed the bill abolishing the zones.) Conceived by the […]
