Unemployment “reforms” in Iowa and other states controlled by the GOP fit neatly with a larger agenda: not to protect workers from low wages, unsafe working conditions, and unbridled employer power, but to compel them to accept whatever they can get. Read full article at
The Affordable Care Act is deeply flawed, but it has nonetheless made healthcare cheaper and more accessible for millions. Read full article at Dissent.
Last month the national unemployment rate fell to 3.7 percent—a low it had not reached since October 1969, two months after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon.