Understaffing has become an epidemic in American workplaces of all kinds.
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Posted inWorking in America
The Minnesota Target Workers Who Walked Out Against ICE
The retailer, which gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration and has allowed ICE staging and abductions on its property, is feeling pressure from its own employees.
Posted inPodcasts
Organized Money: The New Frontier in Price Discrimination
We talk to Lindsay Owens about Google’s plan to turn its Gemini AI into your personal shopping assistant.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Private Equity Saks Another Retail Outlet
It’s the old story: Load up companies with debt, pull out all the value, and leave them as a dead shell.
Posted inWorking in America
Dollar Store Workers Fight to Improve Jobs, Even Without a Union
Like several successful campaigns before it, Step Up organizes workers to improve their jobs, but stops short of calling for a union. The approach, “premajority unionism,” is a natural fit for places like the South, with histories of public hostility to unions.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Plutonomy Is Still Going Strong
For the last 20 years, analysts have known that this is an economy by and for the rich.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Private Equity Ripped the Heart Out of Skateboarding
Multiple buyouts and bankruptcies have ruined iconic brands and hollowed out skateboarding culture. It’s our financialized economy in miniature.
Posted inWorking in America
AI Surveillance Won’t Stop Theft, but It Might Stop Unions
The loss prevention industry is excited about using technology to combat shoplifting. But workers are getting caught up in the dragnet.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Trumpflation Is Here
The president’s lunatic tariffs are jacking up prices all over the place.
Posted inTAP
Waiting for the Supply Shock
Today on TAP: It’s coming, and we know approximately when.