Dollars & Sense Issue 369 (November/December 2023)

features

AI and the Future of Work
Workers’ struggles will determine how the latest round of automation will affect labor.
Robert Ovetz

Will There Be a Just Transition to Electric Vehicles?
It depends on whether unions like the UAW can prevail against automakers who prefer EV work to be low-paying and unsafe.
Nick French

Stop Cheapening Mexico’s White and Native Corn
Mexico’s Undersecretary of Agriculture Víctor Suárez on the Campaign for Food Self-Sufficiency
Interview by Timothy A. Wise

the regulars

the short run
making sense | Powell’s Interest Rate Reflex When Workers Flex Power
up against the Wall Street Journal | How to Ignore Childhood Poverty
Without Having to Say You’re Sorry
in review | The Full Employment Horizon In 20th-Century America:
The Movement for Economic Democracy, by Michael Dennis
dr. dollar | Race Inequality, Class Inequality