It wasn’t great, but the 1970s did not return, and in 2023 the economic indicator we’ll be talking about will be unemployment.

Time to put the kibosh on all this corporate talk about how workers have to sacrifice their labor market leverage to fight inflation.

The Fed raised interest rates again on Wednesday to combat inflation, and the Commerce Department’s GDP number on Thursday could further fuel fears of a recession. Here’s how to make sense of it all.

Stopping Covid-19 aid programs early ignores what has worked to keep people safe, housed, and freed from debt as a global health crisis rages on.

Wages and job openings are up. Here’s why they won’t stay that way.

From the Black Death to Covid-19, deadly plagues have a tendency to raise hourly earnings—for the grisliest of reasons.

Republicans think overly generous unemployment benefits are keeping people from working. Biden might be taking the bait.

A year of mass unemployment has revealed the failures of a cruelly designed, state-run system. We can build something better.

The wild variety of grassroots organizers hoping to give the nudge to the senator all agree on one thing: The old ways won’t work.

Thousands of people have been suffering a slew of crazy postinfection syndromes for months—and there’s no end in sight.

Stories from the pandemic unemployed, underemployed, or otherwise put out.

Ten years out from “The Problem With Work,” the theorist Kathi Weeks considers the current labor crisis, “essential” jobs, and post-pandemic futures

Now that Democrats have won the Senate, there’s a better way to spend that money.

The ongoing national nightmare makes it clear that we need to disentangle work from basic needs like health care and housing—and then do way, way less of it.

Americans are increasingly frustrated by the obligation to ride out a global disaster on their own. They have every reason to be.

In the final presidential debate, a handful of perfunctory appeals to working people got lost in a storm of personal attacks and allegations of corruption.

The drawn-out stimulus negotiations, which have left the public hanging out to dry, represent the worst of our political system.

Everything is pretty terrible right now. A glut of pop psych advice wants you to think you can muscle your way out of it alone.

Poverty numbers leave out far too many who are struggling economically. Shouldn’t we reach for more than whatever rests just above abject misery?

The first lady once again gets off light—thanks to a gullible media and an incredibly low bar set by her husband.