jobs – URPE

Neoliberalism and Race

January 21, 2020

Category: Darrick Hamilton, Inequality, Job Guarantee, jobs, Neoliberalism, Race

By Darrick Hamilton (originally posted here) An Economic Policy Institute (EPI) brief entitled “ The Productivity-P

Making excuses for unemployment: The myth of a “skills gap”

May 20, 2019

Category: jobs, Martin Hart-Landsberg, unemployment, Work, Workers

By Martin Hart-Landsberg, It has taken ten years of expansion, but the U.S. unemployment rate has finally fallen below

An Affordable Job Guarantee Program lecture by Fadhel Kaboub

May 23, 2018

Category: Binzagr Institute, employment, Fadhel Kaboub, Fiscal Policy, Full Employment, Job Guarantee, jobs, Modern Monetary Theory, Monetary Policy, Public Investment

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIypDUVxGb8&w=640&h=360] Fadhel Kaboub is Associate Profe

Deindustrialization in the Granite State: monetary policy, financialization, & the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs

December 29, 2017

Category: Deindustrialization, Dollars & Sense, financialization, jobs, Manufacturing, Marie Duggan, Monetary Policy, New Hampshire

By Marie Duggan. From Dollars&Sense: The central room is 65,000 square feet with a high ceiling. This room is noisy

Unemployment: The Silent Epidemic

August 27, 2017

Category: David Fields, employment, Full Employment, Job Guarantee, jobs, Levy, Macroeconomics, Pavlina R. Tcherneva, unemployment

By Pavlina R. Tcherneva, This paper examines two key aspects of unemployment—its propagation mechanism and socioeco

The New Normal: Demand, Secular Stagnation and the Vanishing Middle-Class

May 21, 2017

Category: Class Conflict, crisis, Effective Demand, Great recession, Inequality, INET, jobs, Macroeconomics, Poverty, Servaas Storm, Stagnation, United States

By Servaas Storm, The Great Financial Crisis of 2008 deeply scarred the U.S. economy, bringing nine dire years of econo

CALL FOR PAPERS: Freedom and Justice – Jobs, Economic Security, and Inclusion

May 3, 2017

Category: ASHE, C-SPAN, Call For Papers, Communalism, conferences, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Democracy, Economic Policy, Economic Security, employment, Environment, Freedom, Gender, Human Potential, INET, jobs, John Jay, NEA, New School, Nina Banks, Public Investment, Race, Social Justice, Wages, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Working-Class

The National Economic Association (NEA) and the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) announce and invite p

Dean Baker: Fed Inflation Target Keeping Wages Low, People Out of Jobs

March 28, 2017

Category: CEPR, David Fields, Dean Baker, Fed, Inflation Targeting, jobs, Monetary Policy, The Real News Network, unemployment, Wages

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdt37_nRgKg&w=760&h=500]

Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee

February 4, 2017

Category: Basic Income, Darrick Hamilton, David Fields, employment, Inequality, Jacobin, Job Guarantee, jobs, Mark Paul, Poverty, Sandy Darity, unemployment

by Mark Paul, William Darity Jr, & Darrick Hamilton Universal basic income (UBI), an annual government-sponsore

“JOBS FOR ALL”: Another Dream of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

January 17, 2017

Category: Binzagr Institute, Capitalism, Freedom, Full Employment, Inequality, jobs, Mathew Forstater, MLK, Race, Racism, Work, Workers, Working-Class

By Mathew Forstater Not many folks remember that the 1963 “March on Washington” was officially named the “March on Wash

EPS Symposium on Policy Challenges for new US President: Jobs, Wages, Health & Social Security

November 28, 2016

Category: David Fields, Donald Trump, Economists for Peace and Security, Health Care, jobs, Josh Bivens, Nancy Altman, Pavlina Tcherneva, Social Justice, Social Security, Stephanie Kelton, US Economy, Wages

[vimeo 192222363 w=640 h=360]

Jobs, Money, Debt: Economic Common Sense (Episode 3: Functional Finance)

July 16, 2016

Category: austerity, Binzagr Institute, David Fields, Debt, Functional Finance, jobs, Mathew Forstater, Money

The 3rd episode of the Binzagr Institute For Sustainable Prosperity Vlog series is now online “Jobs, Money, Deb

EPI Report: Income inequality in the U.S. by state, metropolitan area, and county

June 16, 2016

Category: David Fields, Distribution, EPI, Great recession, Inequality, jobs, Living Standards, Neoliberalism, United States, Wages, Wealth, Well-being, Workers

By Estelle Sommeiller, Mark Price, and Ellis Wazeter Income inequality has risen in every state since the 1970s and in m

Green Jobs & Sustainable Finance

June 13, 2016

Category: Binzagr Institute, David Fields, Development, employment, Environment, Finance, jobs, Mathew Forstater, Sustainability

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdNSM9BUduQ&w=560&h=315]

Mathew Forstater on Jobs, Money, Debt & Economic Common Sense

June 1, 2016

Category: Binzagr Institute, David Fields, Debt, Deficits, jobs, Mathew Forstater, Money, unemployment

Binzagr Institute’s Vlog (video blog) series “Jobs, Money, Debt: Economic Common Sense” by Mathew Forstater, Resear

Overworked America: The economic causes and consequences of long work hours

May 23, 2016

Category: austerity, Capitalism, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Growth, Heather Boushey, Inequality, jobs, Leisure, Living Standards, Neoliberalism, Research, unemployment, United States, Wages, Well-being, Work, Workers

by Heather Boushey & Bridget Ansel Hard work is part and parcel of the American Dream, but at a certain point, workin

Capital, Accumulation, Production and Employment: A WEA Online Conference

May 16, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, conferences, crisis, Critical Social Science, David Fields, Democracy, Development, Distribution, Economic Policy, Effective Demand, employment, Finance, Freedom, Globalization, Growth, Heterodox Economics, Human Potential, Inequality, Instability, Institutions, International Political Economy, jobs, Labour, Living Standards, Methodology, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Poverty, Power, Praxis, Production, Research, Scholarship, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Sustainability, Well-being, Work, Workers, World Economics Association (WEA), world economy

Can We Bend the Arc of Global Capital Toward Justice? is an online conference sponsored by the World Economics Associat

Prabhat Patnaik on Why Do We Have Unemployment?

April 20, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Class Conflict, crisis, David Fields, Distribution, Effective Demand, Fiscal Policy, Heterodox Economics, Inequality, Instability, jobs, Keynes, Labour, Living Standards, Macroeconomics, Marx, Marxian Economics, Monetary Policy, Monthly Review, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Prabhat Patnaik, Radical Economics, Social Justice, unemployment, Wages, Wealth, Well-being, Work, world economy

By Prabhat Patnaik Unemployment has become so persistent a phenomenon in contemporary times that there is a common fee

40,000 Verizon Workers Strike Against Corporate 'Race to the Bottom'

April 14, 2016

Category: Class Conflict, David Fields, Human Rights, Inequality, jobs, Labour, Living Standards, Neoliberalism, Poverty, Power, Praxis, Social Action, Social Change, Social Justice, Social Movements, Unions, Wages, Well-being, Work

Verizon workers across the East Coast marched in picket lines on Wednesday in the largest U.S. strike in recent memory t

New Book by Heather Boushey: Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict

March 25, 2016

Category: Capitalism, Commodification, David Fields, Feminism, Gender, Heather Boushey, Heterodox Economics, Inequality, Institutions, jobs, Leisure, Neoliberalism, Political economy, Power, Radical Economics, Social Change, Social Justice, Well-being, Work

From Harvard University Press: Employers today are demanding more and more of employees’ time. And from campaign barb

New Book by Heather Boushey: Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict

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