Low unemployment rates mask soft spots in the job market, especially among rural Americans and minorities.
Anne Kim
Anne Kim is a Senior Editor at Washington Monthly and the author of Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America’s Poor (New Press, 2024). Anne is also a Senior Fellow at FutureEd and the author of Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection, winner of the 2020 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. Anne is on Bluesky @anne-s-kim.bsky.social.
Posted inMagazine, November/December 2017
The Dialysis Machine
How Medicare steers low-income and minority kidney patients toward the hell of dialysis—and keeps two big companies rolling in profits.
Posted inFeatured, Higher Education
The Road to a Stable Job—Without Crippling Student Debt
A novel grant program in Virginia is helping workers earn career-boosting occupational credentials.
Posted inFeatured, Higher Education
Why Democrats Should Dump ‘Free College’
Free college is not so much a populist idea as an elitist one.
Posted inCollege Guide, Magazine, September/October 2017
Ivy League Endowments Under Fire
Liberals and conservatives agree that it’s time for ultra-wealthy colleges to start sharing their wealth.
Posted inFeatured, Republic 3.0
Four Big Ideas for Tax Reform
The coming debate over tax reform will likely be a wasted opportunity to fix the tax code for the good of the economy and working-class Americans.
Posted inFeatured, Higher Education
Why More Students Should Go to College in High School
‘Dual enrollment’ programs—where students attend both high school and college—are gaining in popularity as college costs soar.
Posted inEconomy, Featured
The Manufacturing Jobs Program Trump Wants to Kill
The little-known Manufacturing Extension Partnership program has helped grow small businesses like Michele’s Granola.
Posted inJune/July/August 2017, Magazine
Deconstricting the Administrative State
Donald Trump promises that his deregulatory agenda will lead to a boom in jobs. The real effect will be the opposite.
Posted inEconomy, Featured
Why Trumpism Is Here to Stay
Did Trump win because of racism or economic anxiety? Ultimately, it might be a false dichotomy.
