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Professor, Former US Secretary of Labor
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Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies, was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration. Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth ...more

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Are You Worried About China Siphoning Off Your Personal Data And Manipulating Your Thoughts Via Tik Tok?
Should you be more worried about China siphoning off your personal data and manipulating your thoughts via TikTok, or American billionaires siphoning off your personal data and manipulating your thoughts via TikTok?
Amazon And SpaceX Are Both Fighting In Court To Have The National Labor Relations Board Abolished
Jeff Bezos’s Amazon and Elon Musk’s SpaceX are both fighting in court to have the National Labor Relations Board declared unconstitutional. Starbuck’s and Trader Joe’s joined them in separate lawsuits.
Biden Vs. Trump: Whose Economic Plan Is Better For You?
Republicans keep claiming that if we just cut enough taxes on the rich, the wealth will “trickle down”. But it never works.
Why Do We Have Weekends?
While many workers now enjoy weekends won by organized labor, the fight continues for those who don’t. And who knows — maybe one day we’ll move to a three day weekend?
The Biggest Economic Lies We’re Told
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed?
How America Can Lower Gas Prices Like Other Countries
The windfall tax is exactly what we need to stop the gush of money flowing from consumers to Big Oil and its investors.
How Amazon, Starbucks, And Other Companies Fight Unions
You as a worker have a legal right to join a union, but there are many ways big corporations are skirting the law to stop you from getting your fair share. You could be working for a union-buster and not even know it.
4 Myths About Raising The Minimum Wage
The federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour has not been raised since 2009. That’s the longest period without an increase since the minimum wage was enacted, meaning today’s minimum wage is actually worth far less than it was in 2009.
Amazon Workers’ Astounding Win, And How Corporate America Is Trying To Take Back Power
On Friday, Amazon – America’s wealthiest, most powerful, and fiercest anti-union corporation, with the second-largest workforce in the nation (Walmart being the largest), lost out to a group of warehouse workers in New York who voted to form a union.
The Fed Is About To Shaft American Workers – For No Good Reason
The last thing average working people need is for the Fed to raise interest rates and slow the economy further. The problem most people face isn’t inflation. It’s a lack of good jobs.
As Job Gains Slow, The Fed And Congress Apply The Wrong Medicine
The Fed is about to prescribe the wrong medicine. It’s going to raise interest rates to slow the economy – even though millions of former workers have yet to return to the job market and even though job growth is slowing sharply.
Psst: You Want To Know What’s Really Driving Inflation? (Not What The Fed Thinks It Is)
“Inflation is more persistent and higher, and that the risk of it remaining higher for longer has grown,” Jerome Powell explained. Translated: The Fed are about to slow the economy — even though we’re still 4 million jobs short of where we were.
What’s Really Driving Inflation? Corporate Power
The biggest culprit for rising prices that’s not being talked about is the increasing economic concentration of the American economy in the hands of a relative few giant big corporations with the power to raise prices.
Today’s Jobs Report Reveals A Striking Thing: A Large Portion Of The American Workforce Is Now Effectively On Strike.
The U.S. added just 194,000 jobs in September, down from the 366,000 added in August and far below the million-plus in July (before the Delta variant took hold).
The Week Ahead: Everything Hangs In The Balance, But The Economy Is A Wild Card
Expect more fear-mongering this week over failure to raise the nation’s debt ceiling.
What Should We Do About The Debt Ceiling, And Why Should You Care?
The debt ceiling fight is back. Many of you may be asking yourself: what the hell is the debt ceiling? In short, it’s the limit on how much the government is allowed to borrow to pay for what it already owes on bills Congress has already agreed on.
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