Economics

Dear Conservatives: Your Opposition to Family Planning Comes with a Huge Price Tag

Dear Conservatives: Your Opposition to Family Planning Comes with a Huge Price Tag Dear Conservatives: Your Opposition to Family Planning Comes with a Huge Price Tag

You can save the babies or you can save the budget, but you can’t do both.

Dec 10, 2012 / Bryce Covert

Jobs Report Takeaway: Fiscal Cliff Deal Must Address Unemployment

Jobs Report Takeaway: Fiscal Cliff Deal Must Address Unemployment Jobs Report Takeaway: Fiscal Cliff Deal Must Address Unemployment

The fiscal cliff is real for people who will suddenly stop receiving unemployment checks. 

Dec 7, 2012 / George Zornick

This Week in Poverty: When Even Santa Can’t Get a Job

This Week in Poverty: When Even Santa Can’t Get a Job This Week in Poverty: When Even Santa Can’t Get a Job

Two million unemployed workers will lose their benefits before the New Year if Congress fails to extend the unemployment insurance program.

Dec 7, 2012 / Greg Kaufmann

Must-See Farmworker Video Takes on Food Industry Hypocrisy Must-See Farmworker Video Takes on Food Industry Hypocrisy

This holiday season, join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in calling on Publix to stop paying farmworkers sub-poverty wages. 

Dec 6, 2012 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Documents Undermine Walmart Account on Deadly Bangladesh Fire

Documents Undermine Walmart Account on Deadly Bangladesh Fire Documents Undermine Walmart Account on Deadly Bangladesh Fire

One news report reveals Walmart’s role in defeating a proposal for retail corporations to pay for safety improvements; the other shows that multiple Walmart suppliers used th...

Dec 6, 2012 / Josh Eidelson

Our Student Prizewinners Our Student Prizewinners

We are delighted to announce the winners of The Nation’s seventh annual Student Writing Contest, Andrew Gambrione and Tess Saperstein.

Dec 5, 2012 / The Editors

Why Top Republicans Are Bailing on the Norquist Pledge Why Top Republicans Are Bailing on the Norquist Pledge

Over time, Americans have become more open to tax increases.

Dec 5, 2012 / Chris Hayes

The Secret of Bernie Sanders’s Success The Secret of Bernie Sanders’s Success

As he takes the lead in the fight to defend Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the senator has much to teach progressives about how to do politics right.

Dec 5, 2012 / John Nichols

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A More Imperfect Union: On the European Central Bank A More Imperfect Union: On the European Central Bank

How a central bank created to exist apart from politics got drawn into bitter political arguments.

Dec 5, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Henry Farrell

Conservative Birthrate Panic: Our Hope for Better Work/Family Policies? Conservative Birthrate Panic: Our Hope for Better Work/Family Policies?

Ross Douthat is worried about fewer American babies. Family policy could be the answer.

Dec 4, 2012 / Bryce Covert

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