Economy

Can China’s Workers Get Their Government to Follow Its Own Labor Laws?

Can China’s Workers Get Their Government to Follow Its Own Labor Laws? Can China’s Workers Get Their Government to Follow Its Own Labor Laws?

Could China’s justice system be morphing from an instrument of the authoritarian state into a contested political terrain?

Apr 16, 2014 / Blog / Michelle Chen

Teachers Are Losing Their Jobs, but Teach for America’s Expanding. What’s Wrong With That?

Teachers Are Losing Their Jobs, but Teach for America’s Expanding. What’s Wrong With That? Teachers Are Losing Their Jobs, but Teach for America’s Expanding. What’s Wrong With That?

Even the organization’s own recruits are uncomfortable with its explosive growth.

Apr 15, 2014 / Feature / Alexandra Hootnick

Smokestack

The Tax Breaks That Are Killing the Planet The Tax Breaks That Are Killing the Planet

In the face of a changing climate and a constrained domestic budget, the lunacy of fossil fuel subsidies is hard to overstate.

Apr 15, 2014 / Blog / Zoë Carpenter

Why We Can’t Strip Race Out of the Gender Wage Gap Conversation

Why We Can’t Strip Race Out of the Gender Wage Gap Conversation Why We Can’t Strip Race Out of the Gender Wage Gap Conversation

There’s no objective explanation for why black women make less than white women.

Apr 15, 2014 / Blog / Bryce Covert

7 Facts About Our Broken Tax System

7 Facts About Our Broken Tax System 7 Facts About Our Broken Tax System

On Tax Day, it’s worth thinking about the ways to make the American tax system better. 

Apr 15, 2014 / Blog / George Zornick

A. Philip Randolph Was Right: ‘We Will Need To Continue Demonstrations’

A. Philip Randolph Was Right: ‘We Will Need To Continue Demonstrations’ A. Philip Randolph Was Right: ‘We Will Need To Continue Demonstrations’

Why we still need a “Freedom Budget for All Americans.”

Apr 15, 2014 / Blog / John Nichols

Thomas Piketty and Millennial Marxists on the Scourge of Inequality

Thomas Piketty and Millennial Marxists on the Scourge of Inequality Thomas Piketty and Millennial Marxists on the Scourge of Inequality

Capitalism’s new critics take on an economics run amok.

Apr 14, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Shenk

[VIDEO] Thomas Piketty: Is Inequality Inevitable?

[VIDEO] Thomas Piketty: Is Inequality Inevitable? [VIDEO] Thomas Piketty: Is Inequality Inevitable?

How to avoid the slide toward a world of increasingly separated haves and have-nots.

Apr 14, 2014 / The Graduate Center, CUNY

What the French E-mail Meme Reveals About America’s Runaway Culture of Work

What the French E-mail Meme Reveals About America’s Runaway Culture of Work What the French E-mail Meme Reveals About America’s Runaway Culture of Work

Do limits on after-hours e-mail reflect French culture’s laziness or American culture’s malaise?

Apr 14, 2014 / Blog / Michelle Chen

‘Bogus and Unconscionably High Fees’: How Tax Preparers Are Preying on Low-Income People

‘Bogus and Unconscionably High Fees’: How Tax Preparers Are Preying on Low-Income People ‘Bogus and Unconscionably High Fees’: How Tax Preparers Are Preying on Low-Income People

Stephen Black appears on Melissa Harris-Perry to discuss how predators set up shop and grab a cut of their victims’ tax refunds. 

Apr 14, 2014 / Blog / Melissa Harris-Perry

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