Know Your Enemy #16: The Windbag City, with Marshall Steinbaum
Matt and Sam and are joined by Marshall Steinbaum for a deep dive into the Chicago school of economics and the baleful influence of libertarian ideas.
Spring 2025
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Belabored Stories: Locked out of Unemployment Insurance
States like California have yet to roll out a system to process gig workers’ unemployment-assistance applications. Rideshare drivers are running on fumes.
Belabored Stories: What If Nurses Ran the Healthcare System?
“We take in a lot and don’t talk about it,” a nurse in Chicago said. But healthcare workers are talking now—not just about how to save their patients, but about rebuilding the system from the bottom up.
Belabored Stories: Postal Workers Want Investment and Hazard Pay
The broken federal funding system is reflected in the dangerous conditions faced by many mail carriers.
The Deepening Unemployment Crisis
Current unemployment numbers now rival the peak during the Great Depression.
Belabored Stories: Union Busting in a Disaster
Art handlers in New York City have filed an NLRB complaint alleging that their employer fired workers for organizing a union.
Belabored Stories: Farmworkers Need Field Hospitals
Workers in the fields in Immokalee, Florida, are demanding public health infrastructure that takes into account cramped living and travel conditions. “Social distancing is not possible.”
Belabored Stories: Cancel Rent
A group of laid-off service workers in Denver is pushing for a total cancellation of rent, mortgage, and utility payments, for at least the next ninety days.
Belabored Stories: A Healthcare Worker Day of Action
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that “any hospital operating off the crisis protocols should let him know,” said one nurse in Brooklyn. “Well, this is us letting him know.”
Belabored Stories: Many Immigrants Won’t Get a $1,200 Check
Millions of immigrant workers are toiling in frontline low-wage industries. But the CARES Act excludes many from its welfare provisions.
Belabored Stories: “Please Stay Safe”
Grocery store workers have become an important point of human contact for customers isolated at home. “People are seeing you in a different light now.”
Belabored Podcast #195: Delivering Us from Coronavirus, with Dania Rajendra
The director of Athena joins us to talk about why Amazon workers have been walking off the job.
[EVENT | April 14] Spring Issue Launch: Know Your Enemy
Join us on Tuesday, April 14 at 7 p.m. for a conversation with the guest editors of our Spring 2020 special section on the right.
Belabored Stories: On the Picket Line for Ventilators
General Electric workers want to use the company’s idled manufacturing facilities to make desperately needed lifesaving equipment.
The Unemployment Shock Continues
It took just three weeks to hit the number of U.S. unemployment claims that were reached in forty-four weeks during the Great Recession. And that doesn’t include people unable to access antiquated and overwhelmed state application systems.
