The Problem For Blue-Collar Workers Isn’t China, It’s Lousy Economic Recoveries
I think Brad DeLong makes a good point today. It’s true that we lost a lot of traditionally blue-collar-male jobs to China in the early aughts, but the trade deficits that crowded-out those jobs also had a mirror-image effect: Imports crowd-in traditionally-male blue-collar wholesale trade jobs, and finance traditionally-male blue-collar construction (and capital-goods manufacturing) jobs.…
“Document, Reassure, Keep Calm”: A Behind the Scenes Look at Training Citizens to Respond to ICE
Courtesy Sacred Heart Community Service Standing in front of a group in a small conference room at a community center in Cupertino, California, Megan Swift told the story of when she was too late. “I went in and they’d been grabbed,” she tells the crowd of 25 or so earlier this week. About four months ago,…
Apple Goes All In on China
The new Mac Pro, made in China. Coming soon to an Apple Store near you.Apple Inc. Farewell Mac Pro, we hardly knew ye: Apple Inc. is manufacturing its new Mac Pro computer in China, according to people familiar with its plans, shifting abroad production of what had been its only major device assembled in the…
Democratic Candidates Take Aim at the Obama-Biden Administration
Vice-President Joe Biden speaks as President Barack Obama looks on in Washington, DC, on December 13, 2016.Olivier Douliery/Sipa via AP Thursday’s presidential primary debate was full of attacks on Donald Trump. But the Obama administration also found itself on the defensive, as Democratic White House hopefuls took aim at some of the policies promoted by…
Joe Biden’s Response to Kamala Harris on Busing Is Going to Haunt His Campaign
Kamala Harris wasn’t going to miss her chance. After a back-and-forth over police shootings of African-American men midway through Thursday’s Democratic presidential debate, NBC moderator Chuck Todd was preparing to change the subject when the California senator interjected. Harris, the only black candidate on the stage, started talking about growing up in the Bay Area…
Kamala Harris Just Won the Internet with “Her Hands”
Saul Loeb/Getty Sen. Kamala Harris’ choice of pronoun resulted in the one of the most viral early moments from Thursday’s second Democratic debate. When asked what she would do with the thousands of people who seek asylum in the United States every day, the California senator presumed in her response that the next president will…