The path to a more secure and generous American welfare state lies not in rejecting the work ethic and the distinction it makes between contributory social insurance and non-contributory social assistance, but rather in embracing it.
Wages are to workers’ output what user fees are to highways and toll bridges.
While it is true that Sweden adopted some neoliberal reforms after an economic crisis in the early 1990s, Sweden is not, and never has been, a free-market welfare state.
Large numbers of American workers are trapped in low-wage jobs in low-tech, low-profit industries in the nontraded domestic service sector, including leisure and hospitality, retail and child and elder care.
Michael Lind’s Home Building essay on family policy for the working class majority is adapted by the Daily Caller.
A pro-worker agenda must treat families, not individuals, as the basic units of public policy.
In 2020 Donald Trump won 40 percent of voters who live in a household with at least one member in a labor union, slightly fewer than the 42 percent of union households who voted for him in 2016. With the exception of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden won fewer union households than any recent Democratic presidential candidate.Â
A strange development of recent years has been the revival on parts of the left and the right of the long-dormant ideology of antimonopolism, once associated with agrarian populists like William Jennings Bryan and progressives like Louis Brandeis.
How are wages set in the United States?
In the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump’s share of the white vote shrank while his share of the nonwhite vote increased.
