Yes, inflation has been punishing. But there is a mountain of good news that media have barely reported. Here’s the real record the Democrats can run on.

The hosts rushed to spin the news as negative for Joe Biden.

They’re wrong, of course. But I have a few hypotheses, including an insurance-premium crisis brought on by climate change.

Another 339,000 jobs added in May. Doesn’t Biden understand the economy is supposed to suck?

The Republican congressman, known for his serial lies, has also been one of the loudest voices on preventing government handouts.

The Labor Department report found that the unemployment rate is 3.468 percent, a level not seen since 1969.

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.