It’s time for a coherent national logistics system, regulating and coordinating what has been privatized.
ocean shipping
Posted inPolitics
Inflation-Fighting Legislative Agenda Takes Shape
An ocean shipping regulatory bill got attached to a broader reshoring bill. There’s now an emerging bipartisan agenda to dismantle misguided, corporate-friendly policies.
Posted inEconomic Policy
We Were Warned About the Ports
A 2015 federal report predicted the entire slowdown that’s come to pass.
Posted inWorking in America
Labor Fight Brews on the Docks
Negotiations loom between the dockworkers union and shipping companies making record profits.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Hidden Costs of Containerization
How the unsustainable growth of the container ship industry led to the supply chain crisis
Posted inPolitics
The Democratic Pivot
There’s a path to gaining some needed successes on policy and legislation while waiting for a deal to emerge on Build Back Better.
Posted inPolitics
2022: The Year in Governing
Here’s everything to look out for over the next 12 months.
Posted inWorking in America
‘Trucking Action Plan’ Missing in Action
The White House effort on trucking is too focused on finding more drivers and not focused enough on making trucking jobs better.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Flying Blind
The fatal fragmentation of private information in the global supply chain system
