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More People Are Turning Down Low-Paying Jobs With Bad Working Conditions
In the context of the last two months' extraordinary growth, August's weaker jobs gains should not be a surprise.
35 Million People Are Set to Lose Unemployment Benefits on Labor Day
Neither Congress nor the Biden administration seem prepared to do anything about it.
Job Recovery Is Happening Far More Quickly Than It Did After Great Recession
It appears the spread of the Delta variant had not had a major impact on the labor market, at least through mid-July.
Degrowth Policies Cannot Avert Climate Crisis. We Need a Green New Deal.
A Green New Deal is the only way climate stabilization can become fully consistent with raising global living standards.
Unemployment Falls to 5.8 Percent as Productivity Growth Quashes Inflation Fears
The recovery continues to disproportionately benefit workers with higher levels of formal education.
Black Workers Cannot Afford Another Lost Decade
It's time to place Black workers at the center of an economic recovery that works for everyone.
Business Lobby Created “Labor Shortage” Myth That GOP Used to Slash Benefits
Republican governors weaponized a weak jobs report to cut unemployment aid, the result of a year-long strategy.
GOP States Spurn Unemployment Funding to Force Workers Back Into Low-Paying Jobs
The GOP's actions could leave the country with vastly different employment social safety nets for red and blue states.
We Can’t Just Tell People to “Go Back to Work.” We Have to Improve Workplaces.
After this past year, people want work to be more than a dreary ordeal of basic survival at an unsustainable wage.
Less-Educated Workers Were Hardest Hit in Recession. That Hasn’t Changed.
Unemployment due to voluntary quits is still extraordinarily low.