Davida Macpherson News Today

Organized labor activity has risen dramatically during the pandemic, with the past three months termed a "summer of strikes," U.S. workers are calling for more paid leave and other benefits that are now enjoyed by Canadian workers.

A lot gets lost in translation. The Chinese-born economist Keyu Jin wants to change that.

The latest data show that fears of recession are misplaced, butCongress must still take care to avoid upsetting the economy.

The world’s largest central bank isn’t in crisis, but it is losing money at the moment.

The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the State’s labor force was more severe than in other states: the size of the workforce declined more rapidly than the rest of the nation in 2020 and continued to shrink in 2021 when other states recovered.

A wave of organizing service workers has swept through Pittsburgh and the country during the last few years. Many of its leaders say the drastic economic upheaval imposed during the early pandemic months shed new light on long-hidden inequities within the service industry, creating an opening for needed change.

My friend Tom wrote the following: “The university administrators knew that Walter Block himself would never apologize, and neither would I, the sponsor of the lecture.  So they pressured several members of the economics department who were not even at the lecture to write a letter of apology in the student newspaper, which they dutifully did.  That letter was a lie, since it was signed by “The Economics Department” despite the fact that I did not even hear of the letter as it was being...