Explainers

My Earnest Warning to Trad Wives

And what it means for economic policy

Jan 28 • Kathryn Anne Edwards

Immigration Enforcement Versus...

Five Ways to Think About $170 Billion

Jan 20 • Kathryn Anne Edwards

The Empowerment Trap

Happy New Year, You're Doing it Wrong!

Jan 8 • Kathryn Anne Edwards

Or, How We Can Have the Biggest, Liberal-est Paid Leave We Want

Nov 17, 2025 • Kathryn Anne Edwards

Moms 1: How We Got Here

My first entry in a collaboration with MomsRising

Sep 10, 2025 • Kathryn Anne Edwards

Nobody Wants This

Tax cuts are expensive and ineffectual, it's time for a new era

May 1, 2025 • Kathryn Anne Edwards

Won't Someone Please Think of the Top 1%???

I explain a Republican talking point making the rounds

Mar 10, 2025 • Kathryn Anne Edwards

A Roundup of Bad Child Care Takes

And all the ways I talk about the need for federally funded child care

Mar 3, 2025 • Kathryn Anne Edwards

How worried should I be?

Layoffs in the US economy

Feb 20, 2025 • Kathryn Anne Edwards

A Tale of Two Labor Markets

On the eve of monumental economic policy

Feb 1, 2025 • Kathryn Anne Edwards

The Hummingbirds

Floating fast in the 21st century American economy

Jan 18, 2025 • Kathryn Anne Edwards

A Primer On Wages

The best way to put inflation in the rearview is through wage growth

Sep 23, 2024 • Kathryn Anne Edwards

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