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Economy & Labor
No, Trump, More Dollars to the Defense Sector Don’t Mean More Jobs
If job creation is your metric of choice, Pentagon contractors are a bad taxpayer investment.
Revised Profit Data Are Good News But Don’t Reverse Decades of Wage Stagnation
You don’t reverse four decades of wage stagnation with four relatively good years.
Trump Is Repackaging His Brand of Neoliberalism as Economic Nationalism
We must fight the U.S.’s economically brutal manipulation of the global market, says author T.J. Coles.
The Fight for a Green New Deal Can Start With Your Union Contract
Labor leaders can translate rank-and-file support for the Green New Deal through bargaining green union contracts.
How Trump’s Political Appointees Overruled Tougher Settlements With Big Banks
Senior Justice Department officials in Washington last year told career prosecutors to settle for less.
Employment Is High — But Job Growth Is Slowing Down
The employment rate has hit a new high, but a deeper look at the numbers shows not everything is rosy.
Kentucky Miners Are Camped Out on Railroad Tracks Demanding Their Stolen Wages
The miners want their jobs back, if possible — but bottom line, they want their wages for the work they already did.
Ted Cruz Urges Trump to Unilaterally Slash Taxes for the Rich
This demand for executive action is hypocritical even by Ted Cruz standards.
A Low-Income Clinic Voted to Unionize. That Was Just the Start of the Battle.
Staff and patients have complained that destabilizing management practices disrupt clinical care.
Hong Kong Protesters, Chinese Workers Point the Way to New Internationalism
There are political impulses that China's government cannot contain, co-opt or absorb.