If You Quit Your Job to Care For a Loved One, You Could Qualify for Unemployment If You Quit Your Job to Care For a Loved One, You Could Qualify for Unemployment
But more often than not, states are preventing workers from securing unemployment benefits.
Apr 14, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Breaking: Leading House Democrat Will Oppose TPP Fast Track Breaking: Leading House Democrat Will Oppose TPP Fast Track
As trade legislation finally proceeds to a vote, a top Democrat announced he cannot support fast-track authority.
Apr 14, 2015 / George Zornick
Education Alone Won’t Put an End to Equal Pay Days Education Alone Won’t Put an End to Equal Pay Days
More education helps an individual woman earn better, but it doesn’t erase the gender wage gap.
Apr 14, 2015 / Bryce Covert
Seventy Years On, Let Us Renew FDR’s Struggle for an Economic Bill of Rights Seventy Years On, Let Us Renew FDR’s Struggle for an Economic Bill of Rights
"The rush of modern civilization itself has raised for us new difficulties, new problems which must be solved..."
Apr 14, 2015 / John Nichols
Can Labor Bring Wall Street Back to Main Street? Can Labor Bring Wall Street Back to Main Street?
Wells Fargo workers are protesting the bank’s predatory practices.
Apr 13, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Are These Strikes a Sign of Growing Militancy Among China’s Workers? Are These Strikes a Sign of Growing Militancy Among China’s Workers?
Workers’ willingness to take direct action could stem from a recognition that the golden era of Chinese manufacturing is on the wane.
Apr 9, 2015 / Michelle Chen
A Radical Agenda for Hillary Clinton A Radical Agenda for Hillary Clinton
The thought leaders of the Next System Project want to move past the narrow debate about policy and toward a conversation about the deeper structural change required of the politic...
Apr 8, 2015 / William Greider
Syriza Can Still Succeed—Even Though EU Officials Are Set On Its Demise Syriza Can Still Succeed—Even Though EU Officials Are Set On Its Demise
The European Commission and the IMF created the conditions that produced Syriza. Now they’re doing everything they can to strangle it in its cradle.
Apr 8, 2015 / Maria Margaronis
Chicago’s Chuy Garcia Lost an Election, but Won a Movement Chicago’s Chuy Garcia Lost an Election, but Won a Movement
A challenge to Rahm Emanuel and corporate Democrats sows the seeds of a new urban populism.
Apr 8, 2015 / John Nichols
The Absurdly Rational Logic of Wages for Wives The Absurdly Rational Logic of Wages for Wives
A radical re-evaluation of caregiving work—proposed in The Nation in 1926—is still potent today.
Apr 7, 2015 / Michelle Chen