The new data contradicts the widespread misconception that stimulus packages and other spending bills were to blame.
Economy
There are good reasons that so many people are walking away from underpaid, life-threatening work.
Decades of corporations monopolizing industries has given them the power to artificially inflate the prices of goods.
This is a crisis — magnified by the pandemic — not of food-production failures but of skyrocketing inequality.
A four-day workweek would make time to rebalance our lives and also create space for collective action to thrive.
As his approval rating on the economy drops, President Joe Biden plans to visit the Port of Baltimore on Wednesday.
Progressives are calling on Democrats to ensure that all of the party’s key priorities remain in the final budget.
A mixed jobs report shows many of the lowest-paying industries are losing jobs.
Analysis shows Manchin’s cuts would lead to his own home state seeing 9,880 fewer jobs each year.
More than 9 million people across the U.S. were taken off unemployment insurance earlier this week.