Proposed rules on income-driven repayment will fundamentally change how student loans work, if done properly.
Working in America
Posted inEconomic Policy
Learning the Right Lessons From Recent Inflation
Why macroeconomic overheating was not the problem and austerity is the wrong cure.
Posted inTAP
The Labor Market and the Soft Landing
Today on TAP: The economy is on track to avert a recession, unless the Fed creates one.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
FTC Ban on Noncompetes Sets Up Huge Legal Fight
The agency used its dormant rulemaking authority to prohibit the wage suppression tactic. Conservatives are already positioning to fight the rule in the courts.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Two Percent Inflation Targeting Harms Growth
Research shows that economies perform better at modestly higher inflation rates.
Posted inWorking in America
House GOP Tries to Cancel Congressional Staff Unions
But it’s not clear whether they can do it.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Project Censored, Part 1: Billionaire Press Domination
Fossil fuel subsidies, wage theft, EPA risk reports, congressional conflicts of interest, and dark, dark money: Concentration of corporate wealth and power distorts everything we see — and don’t see — in the world around us every day.
Posted inPolitics
2023: A Year for Executive Action
Legislative progress will take a back seat in the next couple of years. The executive branch will have to implement the Biden agenda on its own.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Year in Review: The Visuals
Our art director takes a look at his favorite illustrations and photographs of the year.
Posted inWorking in America
Labor, Supply Chains, and Alito
Our editor at large lists his Best of 2022.
