By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Congress may be on recess. But the waitress covering a double shift, the nurse working overnight, the warehouse worker racing a delivery clock, and the…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Congress may be on recess. But the waitress covering a double shift, the nurse working overnight, the warehouse worker racing a delivery clock, and the…
By Ben Jealous — The subminimum wage for tipped workers is a legacy of slavery. After the Civil War, many employers in hospitality and rail service hired newly freed Black…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Labor economists like me mark our calendars for the first Friday of each month, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases The Employment Situation. In…
By Kevin Harris and Richard McDaniel — Donald Trump won 48% of Latino voters in 2024 – the best Republican showing in half a century. Fourteen months later, 70% disapprove…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Congress is has headed home again, leaving behind a familiar mess. Health care costs are rising, insurance premiums are climbing, millions of people are struggling…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Every December, we celebrate the story of a child born in a manger. We adorn nativity scenes with soft light and warm sentiment, but we…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Every year, corporations expect us to line up, log on, and lose our minds for Black Friday. They expect us to stretch our budgets, drain…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Now that Zohran Mamdani is the mayor-elect of New York City, expect the slings and arrows at him to intensify. He has been called everything…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — For millions of Americans, the federal government isn’t an abstraction. It’s a paycheck, a housing voucher, a student loan payment, a disaster relief check. When…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — The United States economy is cruising for a bruising. Inflation keeps ticking up thanks to, among other things, rising inflation. The job market is not…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — The big ugly boondoggle, which our President calls The Big Beautiful Bill, is a disgusting transfer of resources from the poor to the wealthy, preserving…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — It has not yet been sixty days, but in two scant months the 47th President has upended business as usual, in federal government, in classrooms,…