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March 20, 2019
Alan Krueger’s Radical Empiricism
Remembering the Princeton economist who pioneered the study of the minimum wage.
Matthew Zeitlin
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February 26, 2019
The Rich Are Still Getting Richer
Inequality is the economic great wall between those with power and those without it.
Nomi Prins
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February 25, 2019
‘We Need to Start Calling These Folks Out by Name’
The Poor People’s Campaign is pushing DC officials to do more for economic justice in the nation’s capital.
Greg Kaufmann
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December 6, 2018
The Best Strategy for the House Dems? Fight for Major Reforms.
Sure, the Senate will block them. But pushing things like a Green New Deal and Medicare for All will energize grassroots activists and supercharge the coming presidential primary.
Robert L. Borosage
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November 15, 2018
Progressive Economics Are Ascendant—Among Democrats, and at the Ballot Box
It’s good politics and good policy, and should be a winning formula in 2020.
Chris Hughes
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November 5, 2018
How Progressives Can Make Change on Election Day—No Matter What Happens With Congress
Thirteen ballot initiatives that could raise wages, ban fracking, protect immigrants, and house the homeless.
Simon Davis-Cohen
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September 18, 2018
Fighting for $15 in the Twin Cities
Minneapolis recently enacted a minimum-wage bump—will St. Paul be next?
Michelle Chen
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August 16, 2018
The Democratic Insurgency Is Winning the War of Ideas
Some of its candidates have won, others have lost. But the movement is succeeding where it counts.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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July 6, 2018
How Tipping Shortchanges Workers
In most US states, tipped employees are guaranteed only a small fraction of the federal minimum wage.
Bryce Covert
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June 22, 2018
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fights the Power
The insurgent candidate from the Bronx is challenging Democrat Joseph Crowley with a scrappy grassroots campaign and a platform based on economic justice.
Raina Lipsitz