Dollars & Sense Issue 364 (January/February 2023)

Battling Starbucks
How Starbucks Workers United is challenging the coffee empire—and how the empire is striking back.
Saurav Sarkar

What Happened to the Flower Carriers?
Today's flower harvesters in Lompoc, Calif. harken back to the flower carriers in Diego Rivera's paintings from the 1930s. 
Photo Essay by David Bacon

Inflation in Europe
What can be done?
Mechthild Schrooten

the regulars

editors’ note | Battling Goliath
the short run
cartoon | Living Wages Out of Business
two cents
up against the wall street journal | Facing Up to Climate Hell
in review | Alligators in the Arctic by Peter Dorman
economy in numbers | Assaults on Social Security
dr. dollar | What We Can Learn from Agriculture