There Are Fewer and Fewer People to Fill All the Job Openings
Last month the number of job openings was greater than the number of unemployed for the first time since 2001. But since we’ve been talking about the declining employment-population ratio lately, I thought it might be interesting to see the number of job openings compared to all nonworking people aged 25-54. Here it is: Remember…
Lawmakers Just Might Do Something Positive for Pregnant Women for a Change
The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any developed nation. Every year, hundreds of American women still die in childbirth—and that number has increased over recent years. Centers for Disease Control and PreventionWithin these grim statistics, for certain groups, giving birth is especially dangerous: Black mothers die at three times the rate of…
Obamacare Works Fine — If You Want It To
Via Andrew Sprung, here are the final figures for Obamacare enrollment: Take a look at the bars on the left. These are from the states that run their own exchanges and actually care about getting people enrolled. There was no decline from 2017 to 2018, even among the unsubsidized population. Now look at the bars…
He Voted for Trump. Now He’s Running for Congress as a Pro-Pot, Pro-Coal Democrat.
Mother Jones illustration; Mark Helenowski; Getty Images On most nights during the nine-day West Virginia teacher strike last winter, Richard Ojeda could be found at his office in Logan County, gesturing wildly at his iPhone. Ojeda, a 47-year-old ex-Army paratrooper who is rarely seen outside the state Senate chamber in anything other than a tight-fitting…
A Connecticut Prison Has a Radical New Plan to Keep Young Inmates From Coming Back
This story was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Leona Godfrey was sitting down to dinner at a TGI Fridays in Orange, Connecticut, in December 2013 when she glanced at a television and saw her little brother’s name on the local news. Davon Eldemire…
Black Cube Admits It Targeted Obama Aides’ Wives
Our story so far: Team Trump hired a private intelligence firm last year to dig up dirt on Obama aides who had worked on the Iran deal. The plan is to weasel meetings with their wives and go from there. Everyone suspects the firm is Black Cube, the same one that Harvey Weinstein used to…