In a recent piece, Virgilio Urbina Lazardi argues that European countries have lower inequality than the United States because they distribute market income…
Matt Bruenig
Some people think poverty is what results when employers exploit workers on the bottom of the labor market. Other people think poverty…
The New York Times recently ran an opinion piece from Robert F. Kennedy Jr and three other Trump administration officials in which they argue in favor…
The message has apparently gone out among conservatives to start focusing on out-of-work young men in order to make cuts to Medicaid…
Many years ago, I learned that the Faroe Islands has a peculiar process for compensating workers. There, employers pay each worker’s entire paycheck to…
Late last month, I wrote a piece explaining why some people might say the economy under Joe Biden has not been so good. For left-wing…
To combat food deserts in Chicago, the city government is considering opening up a municipal grocery store. The Wall Street Journal recently had a piece about…
The Census released the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey (CPS-ASEC) earlier this month. The CPS-ASEC provides the most…
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday on the constitutionality of using race as a factor in determining who is admitted to selective universities. Most coverage…
On December 9, 2021, nineteen Starbucks workers in Buffalo voted to unionize with Starbucks Workers United, a Service Employees International Union (SEIU)–affiliated…