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The biggest news about unemployment, poverty, and how America works.

A new era for the American worker

By Rani Molla

What the first Starbucks union means for workers everywhere

By Rani Molla

Hating work is having a moment

By Rani Molla

More Americans are taking jobs without employer benefits like health care or paid vacation

By Rani Molla

The death of the job

By Anna North

The five-day workweek is dead

By Anna North

What you’ve heard about people quitting their jobs might be wrong

By Anna North

What are you legally allowed to say at work? A group of fired Googlers could change the rules.

By Shirin Ghaffary

What should coal communities do when power plants shut down? Ask Germany.

By Lili Pike

The Supreme Court showdown over whether colleges should pay their athletes, explained

By Ian Millhiser

An unholy union

By Kim Kelly

How Biden can rein in the Big Meat monopoly

By Claire Kelloway

The class of 2020 was full of hope. Then the pandemic hit.

By Terry Nguyen

Amazon employees fear HR is targeting minority and activism groups in email monitoring program

By Shirin Ghaffary and Jason Del Rey

Poll: Most freelance workers still haven’t gotten unemployment or government loans

By Ella Nilsen

A Democratic plan to stretch expanded unemployment insurance through December

By Ella Nilsen

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How to get the coronavirus unemployment benefits, explained

By Ella Nilsen

Georgia’s unusual unemployment benefits rule lets some workers fall through the cracks

By Ella Nilsen

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How to apply for unemployment benefits if you’re a freelancer or self-employed

By Ella Nilsen

Getting unemployment has been a nightmare for millions of people across the country

By Ella Nilsen

How robots are transforming Amazon warehouse jobs — for better and worse

By Jason Del Rey

Meet the women suing America’s biggest companies over equal pay

A spate of lawsuits against giants from Google and Twitter to Nike and Goldman Sachs reveals the growing frustrations of women in pursuit of the C-suite.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Women are increasingly unhappy. This comic explains why.

By Aubrey Hirsch

To bring “prestige” back to education, make teachers tax-exempt, says Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman

By Eric Johnson

Workers need to be part of the conversation about UBI, says “Beaten Down, Worked Up” author Steve Greenhouse

By Eric Johnson

“Unions for all”: the new plan to save the American labor movement

By Dylan Matthews

Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian: the Code Conference interview (transcript)

By Eric Johnson

The Green New Deal is fracturing a critical base for Democrats: unions

By Umair Irfan

McDonald’s workers are on strike. 3 presidential candidates joined them.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Connecticut is about to get a $15 minimum wage

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Colin Kaepernick’s collusion grievance against the NFL, explained

By P.R. Lockhart

Trump’s car deal with China is great — for other countries

By Alex Ward

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You have $8 billion. You want to do as much good as possible. What do you do?

Inside the Open Philanthropy Project, the group tasked with giving away Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz's massive fortune.

By Dylan Matthews

The gig economy isn’t going anywhere. 4 experts explain why.

By Aditi Shrikant

The emerging plan to save the American labor movement

By Dylan Matthews

The big question about today’s economy — are wages going to start growing?

By Matthew Yglesias

2017 was a great year for CEOs. Not so much for the average worker.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Why the gender discrimination lawsuit against Nike is so significant

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Journalists at Thrillist vote to strike for “livable salaries” 

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

The Trump administration wants to make it easier for federal contractors to hide pay discrimination

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

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