Fifty years after taking part in the successful Berkeley movement, Sol Stern refuses to celebrate the result.

If there’s one thing that the left and right can agree about on Obamacare it’s that the employer mandate is bad policy. The health care law’s requirement that companies with 50 or more full-time equivalent workers offer health insurance locks further in place our unique, and idiosyncratic employer-b…

When Omar was growing up in Richmond, California, he heard the planes overhead going to and from the Oakland and San Francisco airports. Although many in the blue-collar, East Bay city were disturbed by the noise, Omar had a different reaction: his was a classic young person’s dream, that of [...]

New report shows workers are increasingly spending time on union tasks, writes Diana Furchtgott-Roth.

When Alice Chapman moved to Marietta, Ohio, in 1995, she had no intention of taking on the city’s social problems at her own expense. Heir to a Connecticut newspaper fortune, Chapman had lived modestly her whole life but had recently inherited family monies, making it possible to leave her office jo…

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Exposing the flabby distinterest in evidence in Matt Yglesias's Voxsplainer on inequality

Income inequality has been on the rise for decades. In the last 30 years, the wages of the top 1% have grown by 154%, while the bottom 90% has seen growth of only 17%. As the rungs of the economic ladder move further and further apart, conventional wisdom says that it will become much more difficult…