Two months ago, LGM commenters routinely talked about my demand for federally guaranteed employment as a pie-in-the-sky impossibility. Today, it's becoming a position that any Democratic candidate must adopt to.
The nature of work in the United States is changing fairly rapidly. Capital mobility wiped out millions of industrial jobs. Automation is eliminating the rest--along with many other job categories--with.
Let's go ahead and say this guy is overstating the case. If it's even close to what he projects, then how do we deal with this as a society? It.
With the sudden boomlet in progressive support for government guaranteed work, there are a couple of pieces that you should read. I linked to this the other day, but the.
Shaun Richman and I have a piece in the Washington Post arguing that while Trump is full of baloney on trade, Democrats continue to be vulnerable on the issue because.
Andrew Yang isn't going to even sniff the Democratic nomination in 2020 and nor should he. But someone getting media attention by raising alarms about automation is actually important. That.
A union organizer friend of mine was in Silicon Valley recently. He walked into a beer bar and was struck that this bar employed no bartenders. Instead, patrons pour their.
Parts of the internet have gone crazy with the news that Oregon has loosened its law requiring a gas station employee to pump their gas, which many native Oregonians don't.
