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  • Economy & Work
    What Does Donald Trump Actually Intend to Do About Trade?
    January 6, 2017
    | Dean Baker
    The incoming president's trade agenda could focus on manufacturing jobs or enriching corporate America. The smart money is on corporations.
  • Economy & Work
    Labor Day 2016: Moderate Progress in Last Year
    September 6, 2016
    | Dean Baker
    The battle for workers is slowly but surely progressing with reasonable gains in the number of jobs, wages and benefits.
  • Inequality
    The Lopsided Political Dialogue With the Working Class
    July 22, 2016
    | Tamara Draut
    Democrats need to get comfortable with using the term "working class," or risk losing those voters to Trump, who at least gives voice to their anxiety.
  • Deepak Bhargava: Tell the True Story of Struggle in America
    January 19, 2015
    | Deepak Bhargava
    There is a widely-held myth constructed by the right that the people who struggle to make ends meet don’t want to work. But in reality, people are working harder and harder for less and less.
  • Economy & Work
    The Week That Workers Won (At Least a Little)
    July 31, 2014
    | Amy Traub
    Today’s economy doesn’t contain a lot of good news for working people, yet the last few days have seen some notable gains.
  • Generational Poverty Is the Exception, Not the Rule
    June 28, 2014
    | Stephen Pimpare
    Poverty in the US is, in fact, a much larger problem than we think it is, and it’s one that most Americans will face.
  • Getting a College Degree Won’t Protect Black Workers From the Economy’s Racial Barriers
    May 22, 2014
    | Bryce Covert
    The unemployment rate for black college graduates has been higher than for all graduates for decades. A new report says that the gap has widened since 2007.
  • Morning Reads: The NRA's Fear Convention; Partisan Attacks Depressing ACA Enrollments
    April 28, 2014
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...
  • Slideshow: NYC Fast Food Workers Rally for a 'Living Wage'
    April 15, 2014
    | Neha Tara Mehta
    Earlier this month, workers and state legislators picketed McDonald's to press Albany to raise the state minimum wage.
  • Yes, Being a Woman Makes You Poorer
    April 14, 2014
    | Monica Potts
    Women are much more likely to have minimum-wage jobs than men and female-headed households are more likely to be poor.


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