The Price of a Manicure Just Went Up for Bad Bosses The Price of a Manicure Just Went Up for Bad Bosses
New York state has passed new protections for the salon industry’s most precarious workers.
Aug 28, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Walmart Just Instituted Its Own Assault-Weapons Ban Walmart Just Instituted Its Own Assault-Weapons Ban
The store is still the country’s biggest gun retailer, however.
Aug 27, 2015 / George Zornick
China’s Meltdown Goes Deeper Than the Stock Market China’s Meltdown Goes Deeper Than the Stock Market
The market’s volatility hurts share prices, but the turbulence in China’s real economy has plunged workers into poverty and fatal risks on the job.
Aug 26, 2015 / Michelle Chen
The Many Ways You Can Be Screwed Out of Unemployment Benefits The Many Ways You Can Be Screwed Out of Unemployment Benefits
If you have a bad job to begin with, chances are you’re going to get bad unemployment relief.
Aug 14, 2015 / Michelle Chen
New Trade Deal Could Undermine Migrant Labor Rights New Trade Deal Could Undermine Migrant Labor Rights
And it could deregulate “white collar” jobs.
Jul 29, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Bobby Jindal, Does Louisiana ‘Love Us Some Guns’ Now? Bobby Jindal, Does Louisiana ‘Love Us Some Guns’ Now?
The Louisiana Governor and GOP presidential candidate bears much responsibility for the fact that his state has some of the laxest gun laws in the US—and leads the country in gun d...
Jul 24, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
Uber Wins a Battle With New York, Now It’s War Uber Wins a Battle With New York, Now It’s War
The fight over NYC’s Uber cap is just the beginning of a deeper struggle over the future of transportation and the gig economy.
Jul 24, 2015 / Michelle Chen
Five Years After Dodd-Frank, ‘It’s Still a Financial System That Needs Reform’ Five Years After Dodd-Frank, ‘It’s Still a Financial System That Needs Reform’
A conversation with a former lawmaker who championed many of the law’s most significant provisions.
Jul 23, 2015 / Zoë Carpenter
Dodd-Frank Needs 3 Big Things to Be Finished Dodd-Frank Needs 3 Big Things to Be Finished
The financial reforms of 2010 did some real good, but the law hasn’t been fully implemented yet.
Jul 21, 2015 / George Zornick
How to Revive Progressive-Era Economics for the New Gilded Age How to Revive Progressive-Era Economics for the New Gilded Age
How do we fight concentrations of private corporate power? By studying how they did it last time.
Jul 21, 2015 / K. Sabeel Rahman