Labor

"That $600 bill literally halved my ‘disposable' income for the year."

We want to hear from you (and we'll keep you anonymous).

Our tax system invites manipulation by anyone rich enough to do it.

Discourse Blog's best stories about work and workers.

It's both a dire moral emergency and good politics.

Acknowledging that most of us are workers and workers can withhold their labor is a stark challenge to the status quo. It also doesn't happen all that often.

Striking New Orleans sanitation workers fight for respect. 

Trump is murdering one of our best things.

"With all the evictions that are coming forth, landlords will just do whatever they want to."

What the pandemic did to my father.

It turns out that just giving people money works really well. So, naturally, the government wants to stop.

Here's why.

People need cash, but Washington is turning to its usual, absurd playbook instead.

"They come in and say, ‘We love what you do, now do it this way.'"

I love journalism. I can't stop thinking about quitting it.

The app culture gives everyone a chance to trace, track, and tyrannize workers — even in a pandemic.

You'd think after doing something a couple thousand times the bosses would have the process down.

"I do think that workers will win this fight."

There were a thousand ways to tell this story, and NPR chose the worst one.