Dollars & Sense Issue 370 (January/February 2024)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

features
Union Democracy Stands Up
Workers’ struggles will determine how the latest round of
automation will affect labor.
Barry Eidlin

The Heavy, Unequal Burden of Student Debt
The federal student loan payment restart is inflicting needless pain
on millions of Americans.
Nick French

Ruined Rivers
The Hidden Crisis of Unchecked Mining in Kashmir
Mir Aiyaz

the regulars
the short run
making sense | Wealth, Inequality, and All That
up against the Wall Street Journal | A Country of Mini-Millionaires?
50th-anniversary reprint | The Sound of Popular Economics
economy in numbers | The Elimination of the Expanded Child Tax Credit
dr. dollar | Inequality and Climate Change