Hello Friend, Labor Day is behind us, but the question at the heart of it should stay with us: What does it mean to honor work if all people who want to work cannot find work that allows them to live with dignity? Over the past several months, I have carried that question with me… Read More Be Honest: Who Gets to Thrive in the Economy We’re Building?
Thanks to our partnership with Kevin Bradshaw, labor union leader in Tennessee, the National Jobs for All Network is featured on the Union Strong-Labor Education App. The platform is designed to educate people about the labor movement and jobs. Go to the “Learn” tab and see our website there. Enjoy! QRCODE Website Link: https://laboreducation.org/
Beth Macy, Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in Fractured America. Penguin Press, 2025. Reviewed by Trudy Goldberg In Paper Girl, Journalist Beth Macy–author of Dopesick, the best-selling investigation of the US opioid epidemic—turns her sharp eye to Urbana, her hometown in rural Ohio. About ten years ago, Macy started noticing some changes… Read More Book Review: Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in Fractured America, by Beth Macy
By Sarianna Sabbarese (Field Organizer for the Connecticut Jobs and Human Rights Task Force and the National Jobs for All Network) The Connecticut Jobs and Human Rights Task Force (JAHRTF) serves as Connecticut’s chapter of the National Jobs for All Network, responding to unique challenges within the state’s economic, employment, social and political landscape from… Read More Good Jobs Are a Human Right!
by Cortney Sanders On May 8, the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College convened its annual conference marking 40 years since the Institute’s founding. The occasion drew a distinguished assembly of economists, journalists, and policymakers united by a shared conviction that conventional economics has consistently failed to reckon with the realities facing the global economy… Read More Levy Economics Institute 40th Anniversary Conference
