Steven Greenhouse
Steven Greenhouse
@greenhousenyt.bsky.social
Retired New York Times labor reporter, senior fellow Century Foundation, author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
Anthropic's CEO says AI could destroy half of all entry-level white-collar jobs by 2030 & boost unemployment to 20%

This could create a huge new underclass. It would be far better if tech companies built a pro-worker AI rather than an AI that maximizes layoffs www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Most people aren’t fretting about an AI bubble. What they fear is mass layoffs | Steven Greenhouse
Artificial intelligence could make income inequality even worse and create a new underclass. Governments and society must take action
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December 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Today much of the talk about AI is whether there’s a speculative bubble or whether OpenAI will beat its rivals in building new generations of AI

The vast majority of people couldn’t care less about that—They're worried about AI causing HUGE LAYOFFS www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Most people aren’t fretting about an AI bubble. What they fear is mass layoffs | Steven Greenhouse
Artificial intelligence could make income inequality even worse and create a new underclass. Governments and society must take action
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December 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Trump's slapdash affordability campaign is a mess: a pile of absurdity, contradictions, magical thinking, scapegoating & Trumpian dishonesty

Trump sounds hugely out of touch with average Americans & the truth with his big lie that "prices are down"
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Trump’s 'affordability' efforts are a mess of absurdity and magical thinking | Steven Greenhouse
After Republicans were trounced in this month’s votes, the administration has launched a slapdash, ill-conceived campaign
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November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
For decades, president after president has sought to rid the US of its image as a bullying, imperialistic nation. But with his blustering, often brutish behavior toward other nations, Trump has rapidly revived that notion.

UNDER TRUMP, THE UGLY AMERICAN IS BACK
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Brutish, bullying, imperialistic: the Ugly American is back | Steven Greenhouse
Donald Trump is using US power to insert himself into other countries’ affairs, treating them as vassals
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November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
There is on ONLY ONE OBSTACLE to freeing up food stamp money for 42 million Americans & THAT OBSTACLE IS DONALD TRUMP

Trump has cruelly cut food stamp funds because he thinks that by hurting 42m needy Americans, he'll get Democrats to surrender in the shutdown
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Trump is using the shutdown to make life tougher for millions of workers | Steven Greenhouse
Food stamps are in danger and hundreds of thousands of federal workers may go unpaid, as thousands more are laid off
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October 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Sadly, Trump—that supposed champion of workers—has embraced numerous anti-worker policies during the government shutdown

Trump has cynically & callously ratcheted up pain on workers in order to pressure the Democrats to cry uncle & end the shutdown www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump is using the shutdown to make life tougher for millions of workers | Steven Greenhouse
Food stamps are in danger and hundreds of thousands of federal workers may go unpaid, as thousands more are laid off
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October 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Many Americans are shocked & dismayed that the Supreme Court has been so submissive toward Donald Trump—the most authoritarian-minded president in history

Some scholars say the court's conservative super-majority has been just plain chicken when it comes to Trump
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Why does the supreme court keep bending the knee to Trump? | Steven Greenhouse
As a new term begins, the justices have continually failed to provide a check on presidential power – with disastrous consequences
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October 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is so unpopular that he's pushing to rebrand it as The Working Families Tax Cut Bill

Don't Be Fooled. The bill should be called the Billionaires' Tax Cut Bill. With its Medicaid & other cuts, the bill hurts millions of working families www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump wants to rebrand his tax bill as the ‘Working Families Tax Cut’. Don’t be fooled | Steven Greenhouse
The budget measure will hurt poor people and boost rich people. It should really be called the Billionaires’ Tax Cut Act
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September 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Trump’s unprecedented assault on the Federal Reserve's independence iS DANGEROUS & BAD FOR OUR ECONOMY

Just as Trump failed to understand the huge problems his tariffs would create, he fails to understand the serious damage his attacks on the Fed could cause.
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Why Trump’s attacks on the Fed’s independence are so dangerous | Steven Greenhouse
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates this week. But the aggressive action Trump seeks could dramatically backfire
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September 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Donald Trump won the election by promising to reduce prices, especially grocery prices, on Day One.

It hasn't happened. The price of ground beef is up 13%, eggs are up 11%, and coffee prices have jumped 21%

TRUMP ISN'T DELIVERING ON HIS ECONOMIC PROMISES.
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Analysis | Trump faces same economic challenges that cost Harris her White House bid
President Donald Trump faces a similar economic environment to the one that cost Kamala Harris the White House.
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September 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
If you look closely, you can see the bone spurs that self-described "war hero" Donald Trump used to dodge the draft & avoid serving in Vietnam

Trump actually called himself a war hero for ordering U.S. pilots to risk their lives & bomb Iran. They're the war heroes, not the cowardly draft dodger
September 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
TRUMP IS “BRAZENLY ANTI-WORKER”

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler: “Trump talks a good game of being for working people, but he’s doing the absolute opposite. He is stripping away regulations that protect workers. His attacks on unions are coming fast & furious."
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‘He’s brazenly anti-worker’: US marks the first Labor Day under Trump 2.0
Advocates say Trump has hurt workers in many ways, often by cutting their pay or making their jobs more dangerous
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September 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
It's delusional for anyone to think that RFK Jr. and Donald Trump are making America healthy again.

With Kennedy's war against science, truth & vaccines and Trump's war against Medicaid, their movement should be called MAKING AMERICA UNHEALTHY AGAIN

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Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign
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August 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Trump is DANGEROUSLY UNDERMINING the rule of law & our democracy with his unusual governing style—GOVERNMENT BY SHAKEDOWN

He is shaking down universities, law firms & US trading partners in ways that violate federal law & the Supreme Ct does nothing
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Trump’s presidential philosophy is government by shakedown | Steven Greenhouse
The president’s strategy is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Congress and the courts must put a stop to it
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August 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Donald Trump has a distinctive & dangerous style of governing—Call it GOVERNING BY SHAKEDOWN

Trump has systematically sought to shake down leading universities, prominent law firms & America's trading partners—usually violating federal law in doing so.

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Trump’s presidential philosophy is government by shakedown | Steven Greenhouse
The president’s strategy is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Congress and the courts must put a stop to it
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August 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Trump boasts that he's winning his trade war, but ordinary Americans are big losers in the war

Trump’s tariffs will cost the typical US household $2,400 in 2025. The Yale Budget Lab says apparel prices will soar 37% & shoe prices 39%.

AMERICANS LOSE BIG-TIME www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump is losing his foolish trade war. This will cost ordinary Americans greatly | Steven Greenhouse
Trump’s trade war has pushed up inflation, slashed US job gains, slowed economic growth and caused the manufacturing sector to sputter
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August 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
BLAME THE SUPREME COURT for paving the way for Texas's shameful race-to-the-bottom on gerrymandering

In 2019, Chief Justice Roberts & the conservative majority issued a horrible ruling—no matter how egregious the gerrymandering, we'll let it stand

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The US supreme court paved the way for Texas’s gerrymandering mess | Steven Greenhouse
In a 2019 case, John Roberts said federal courts shouldn’t intervene in such matters. Trump’s team is taking advantage
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August 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Very regrettably, the Supreme Court keeps ruling in favor of Donald Trump, the most authoritarian president in history & keeps issuing rulings that undermine our democracy.

The court forgets, We're supposed to have a government of laws, not of strongmen.
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The supreme court is giving a lawless president the green light | Steven Greenhouse
The Department of Education case is the latest example of an unexplained decision bowing to Trump
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July 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
MORE ON EPSTEIN & TRUMP—Epstein aide went to FBI because she was upset that Epstein was pursuing girls & young women while building friendships with prominent people, including Trump & Bill Clinton

She said Trump once thought Epstein was giving her to Trump for sex
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An Accuser’s Story Suggests How Trump Might Appear in the Epstein Files
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July 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Ever since Trump returned to power, he has conducted an unprecedented assault against the rule of law. Thankfully, federal district court judges have bravely stood up to him & his illegal actions

Sadly SCOTUS has been very pro-Trump & has tied these judges' hands
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The supreme court is cracking down on judges – and letting Trump run wild | Steven Greenhouse
The justices’ decision limiting judicial injunctions gives a red light to the most effective check on the president’s power grab
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July 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
As the Democratic party fights to rebuild from a devastating election defeat, the presidents of two of the nation’s largest labor unions—Randi Weingarten & Lee Saunders—have abruptly quit the DNC, exposing serious tensions over the party’s direction
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Union leaders’ exit from DNC exposes ‘mind-boggling’ tensions inside Democratic party
Lee Saunders and Randi Weingarten say party not standing up for working people amid ‘existential battle’ under Trump
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June 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Disgraceful and inexcusable. Trump's authoritarian, ice-hearted thugs arrest New York City's highly respected comptroller, Brad Lander. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
New York City comptroller Brad Lander arrested at immigration court hearing
Mayoral candidate was detained by Ice as he escorted an immigrant out of court, says his wife
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June 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Trump is having TANTRUMS because so many judges have ruled against him

He should realize there's a simple way to get judges to stop overruling him: STOP taking all these ILLEGAL, VINDICTIVE actions & stop issuing all these destructive, lawless executive orders

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Trump keeps being overruled by judges. And his temper tantrums won’t stop that | Steven Greenhouse
A word of advice to Trump: dozens of judges keep ruling against you because you’ve flouted the law more than any previous president
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June 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"If there's justice in the world, @elonmusk will never be able to repair his reputation—at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he’s engendered." Experts estimate DOGE's cuts have resulted in >300,000 deaths & huge misery & hunger
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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
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May 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
1/ Want to help US workers? Enforce labor law, not deportation orders. Undocumented immigrants are not the problem. The problem is the govt’s inadequate response to structural shifts in the economy that undermine worker power. NEW REPORT: smlr.rutgers.edu/sites/defaul...
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May 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM