Short Posts
The suburban voter strategy isn’t as black and white as it used to be, The Hill (March 2024)
We Don’t Have to Keep Shoveling Money to Big Ag, Jacobin (January 2021)
Meatpacking Bosses in Iowa Allegedly Organized a Betting Pool on How Many Workers Would Get COVID, Jacobin (November 2020)
Bernie Sanders Would Make a Very Good Secretary of Labor, Jacobin (November 2020)
Without Another Massive Federal Stimulus, State and Local Governments Will Face Brutal Austerity, Jacobin (November 2020)
Comparing the US and Canada Shows Just How Badly America Has Bungled the Pandemic, Jacobin (August 2020)
What Should Iowa’s Recovery Look Like? Bleeding Heartland (July 2020)
Iowa Governor: Your Job or Your Life, Jacobin (May 2020)
Meatpacking Outbreak is Unsurprising When You Consider How Iowa Treats its Workers, Des Moines Register (April 2020)
The Deepening Unemployment Crisis, Dissent (April 2020)
The Unemployment Shock Continues, Dissent (April 2020)
The Unemployment Shock, Dissent (March 2020)
Caucuses or Not, Iowa Workers are Getting Screwed, Jacobin (October 2019)
What’s (Still) the Matter With Iowa? Dissent (March 2019)
The State of the Unions Dissent (February 2019)
Healthy Signs Dissent (December 2018)
Wage Woes, Dissent (December 2018)
A Dismal Report Card on Global Inequality, Dissent (April 2018)
Them That Has, Gets, Dissent (November 2017)
Police Murders are the Tip of the Iceberg, Dissent (September 2017)
Deeds of Mistrust, History Happens Here (Missouri History Museum), May 2017
What’s the Matter with Iowa Dissent (March 2017)
Triumph of the One Percent, Dissent (December 2016)
Red Lines, Black Lives, Dissent (October 2016)
Right to Work (For Less): By the Numbers, Dissent (May 2016)
Ferguson Digs in its Heels, Dissent (February 2016)
The Pension Pinch, Dissent (November 2015)
Ferguson Revisited, Dissent (August 2015)
JP Morgan Sounds the Alarm on Inequality, Dissent (May 2015)
Border City Blues, Dissent (May 2015)
Minimum Wage Increase Hits the Bulls Eye, Working Economics (May 2015)
How Racism Became Policy in Ferguson, Dissent (March 2015)
The Segregation Index, Dissent (Winter 2015)
Mapping Our Unequal States, Dissent (January 2015)
The Making of Ferguson, Dissent blog (August 2014)
What this Month’s Job Report Doesn’t Tell Us, Dissent blog (June 2014)
The Wage Crunch in Perspective, Dissent blog (June 2014)
Piketty in One Graph (Center For Economic and Policy Research, Graphic Economics, May 2014)
Employment Change by State and Sector, 1995-2014 (Center for Economic and Policy Research, April 2014)
The United States of Inequality, Dissent (March 2014)
Mapping Inequality, Working Economics (February 2014)
Inequality in the States, Working Economics (February 2014)
Jim Crow for the Jobless, Dissent (January 2014)
Two Cheers and Two Cautions for the Jobs Report, Dissent (December 2013)
Beyond SeaTac: Movement on the Minimum Wage? Dissent (November 2013)
Social Security by the Numbers, Dissent (November 2013)
Strangled by the Purse Strings: Austerity After the Shutdown, Dissent (October 2013)
Union Membership and The Income Share of the Top Ten Percent, Working Economics (EPI), October 2013
Growing Together, Growing Apart, Working Economics (EPI), October 2013
Fargo or Bust: The State Income Numbers, Dissent (September 2013)
The Top One Percent Income Share (annotated), CEPR (September 2013)
Behind the Income Numbers, Dissent (September 2013)
McRecovery: The Troubling New Jobs Report, Dissent (September 2013)
Labor Day Blues, Dissent (September 2013)
States of Recession (Center for Economic and Policy Research, August 2013)
Mind the Gap, Dissent (August 2013)
ALEC in Plunderland, Dissent (July 2013)
Unemployment and Its Symptoms, Dissent (July 2013)
Three Reasons Not to Get Too Excited about the Latest Jobs Report, Dissent (July 2013)
Defending the Top One Percent–And Failing At It, inequality.org (July 2013)
The Great Barbecue Revisited, Dissent (June 2013)
Wage Growth and Unemployment in the States (CEPR, June 2013)
How the Rich Got Richer, Dissent (June 2013)
Revenue Blues: The Case for Higher Taxes, Dissent, June 2013
Inflation, the Friendly Ghost, Dissent (May 2013)
The Austerity Follies, Dissent (May 2013)
From Bad Jobs to Good Jobs, Dissent (May 2013)
The Lost City of Solidarity, Dissent (April 2013)
How the Density of Your County Affects How You Vote, Atlantic Cities (April 2013)
The Arc of Inequality, Dissent (March 2013)
US Health Care is Still Bad (and Expensive), Dissent (February 2013)
A Bad Year For Unions, Dissent (January 2013)
A Jobless Recovery, Dissent (January 2013)
Back to Full Employment (Center for Economic and Policy Research), January 2103
Unemployment Numbers: The Long View, Dissent (January 2013)
Iowa View: Counting job gains while excluding losses is wrong, Des Moines Register (January 15, 2013)
The Folly of Right to Work, Dissent (December 2012)
The Good Jobs Deficit, Dissent (December 2012)
Better Pizza, Bitter Politics, Dissent (November 2012).
(with Steve Herzenberg), The Manufacturing Jobs Score, 1949-2011 (Keystone Research Center, October 2012)