Since the spring of 2021, millions of Americans have left the workforce, and many may not intend to return. Humanity’s complex relationship with work is worth revisiting in light of today’s so-called Great Resignation.
Economics
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The Great Resignation and anti-work movement: Catholics should celebrate the changes to our labor market
Last year, a record 47 million Americans quit their jobs, and it was not because of laziness. Here are five major reasons for what is being called The Great Resignation.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Cryptocurrency has taken the idolatry of wealth to a new level of sinfulness
Cryptocurrency is our culture’s idolatrous golden calf. We need to save ourselves (and our planet) from its empty promises.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
A priest calls out violence against the poor and homeless in Brazil: ‘We have to move from hostility to hospitality’
The Rev. Júlio Lancellotti is São Paulo’s designated vicar for street people. He has been posting images of spikes and other elements of hostile architecture gathered from cell phone photos or video from all over Brazil.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pope Francis to tax collectors: Taxation done well is a sign of justice for the poor
Taxation “must favor the redistribution of wealth, looking out for the dignity of the poorest who risk always ending up crushed by the powerful,” the pope said in a meeting with members of Italy’s tax collection agency.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
How the Vatican plans to make and spend its money in 2022—and be more transparent about it
The duty of the Secretariat for the Economy includes “to report transparently” so that those who contribute “are then able see how the money with which they help is spent,” Juan Antonio Guerrero, S.J., said Friday.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
El Salvador’s president made Bitcoin a national currency. A Jesuit says the project reminds him of ‘the seven deadly sins’
President Bukele enjoys strong popularity at home and in neighboring Central American countries, but his government faces accusations of authoritarianism and corruption.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The poor have been hard hit by Covid-19. Now inflation is pushing some to the brink.
“All the prices are ridiculously high,” said Manuel Jeremías Ake, a father of six in California. “We were struggling to buy what we could afford. But now, forget about it. I’ve never seen anything like this in this country.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Moral Economy
Ten things Pope Francis and Catholic social teaching taught me about the economy
I spent the past year writing about the economy through the lens of Catholic social teaching. Here’s what I learned.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I worked at an Amazon warehouse. It taught me about Christmas and being alone.
I was one of thousands of disconnected people working in the background, in order to deliver packages that are supposed to make us feel somehow more connected.