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Economy & Work
  • Letters From an American
    'What We're Inheriting Is So Much Worse Than We Could Have Imagined'
    January 22, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Day One's big news — that there was never any plan for a federal response to the coronavirus pandemic — was not entirely unexpected.
  • Democracy & Government
    Here’s What Students Think Biden Needs to Do in His First 100 Days
    January 21, 2021
    | StudentNation

    From reimagining the Postal Service to combating climate change to reforming OIRA, students across the country told us what they think Biden’s top priority should be.

  • Health & Science
    Unsanitized: The Battle of Los Angeles
    January 20, 2021
    | David Dayen

    The nation’s biggest county has the biggest COVID outbreak. Plus, a memorial to the dead.

  • Democracy & Government
    Unsanitized: The American Rescue Plan
    January 18, 2021
    | David Dayen

    Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion package for public health and economic relief from the coronavirus.

  • Health & Science
    Unsanitized: Pandemic Recovery in a Plutonomy
    January 5, 2021
    | David Dayen
    The optimistic case for economic growth masks who those benefits might be reserved for.
  • Health & Science
    David Dayen's Best Of 2020
    December 30, 2020
    | David Dayen

    The American Prospect's executive editor recalls his favorite stories of the year.

  • Economy & Work
    Student Debt Pushes to the Front of Biden's Agenda
    December 29, 2020
    The debate over loan forgiveness is raging between parties and within them.
  • Economy & Work
    Unsanitized: Congress Again Taxes the Time of Benefit Recipients
    December 22, 2020
    | David Dayen
    The ridiculous hurdles one must go through to survive.
  • Inequality
    PPP Loans Were Supposed to Prioritize Low-Income Areas During the Pandemic. They Don't.
    December 17, 2020
    | Taylor Johnson, Jamie Smith Hopkins and Pratheek Rebala

    Many of the largest firms that received loans got the quickest help, while the smallest ones — the type disproportionately owned by people of color and women — had to wait. Some never got anything.

  • Health & Science
    Unsanitized: The Return of Checks Checks Checks
    December 16, 2020
    | David Dayen

    With three days to go before government funding expires, the leadership in the House and Senate finally got in a room together to discuss a year-end deal that packages an omnibus spending bill and coronavirus aid. And what progressives are fighting for in the relief package.



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