There is no way that the Republican-controlled Senate would support a substantial increase in spending on social programs, even if the House approved it.
Rates of wage growth aren’t spectacular, but the increase is a positive sign. The unemployment rate had been on a downward path since 2010, as the economy was recovering from the Great Recession.
The recent rise in the unemployment rate for Black men will turn out to be a statistical quirk, but there is enough evidence that we have to take seriously the possibility that it is real.
We live in a society where children’s well-being as adults is overwhelmingly determined by the incomes of their parents. Inequality was not a natural outcome of the market and technology.