Republicans’ War on Workers’ Rights
From the New York Times blog “The Great Divide” by Corey Robin: Midterm elections are like fancy software: Experts love them, end-users couldn’t care less. But if the 2010 elections…
From the New York Times blog “The Great Divide” by Corey Robin: Midterm elections are like fancy software: Experts love them, end-users couldn’t care less. But if the 2010 elections…
From NYT’s “The Great Divide” Blog by Jacob Soll: “A population well-versed in double-entry accounting will not immediately solve our complex financial problems, but it would allow average citizens to…
NPR’s David Kestenbaum investigates the question, Does raising the minimum wage kill jobs? Here is an overview: President Obama has called for increasing the minimum wage, saying it will help…
From the New York Times Editorial Board: Republicans sputtered with outrage when the Congressional Budget Office said that immigration reform would lower the deficit, strengthen Social Security and speed up…
From the Brookings Institute “Metropolitan Opportunity Series” Papers: In December 2013, President Obama gave a speech on economic mobility, in which he called income inequality and lack of upward mobility…
From the New York Times Blog “DealBook” by Steven Davidoff: Big paydays on Wall Street often come under laserlike scrutiny, while Silicon Valley gets a pass on its own compensation…
From the New York Times by Annie Lowrey: A popular Democratic proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, championed by President Obama, could reduce total employment by…
From the NYT “Economix” Blog” by Uwe Reinhardt: Last week a brouhaha erupted over a passage in Appendix C of a Congressional Budget Office report, Budget and Economic Outlook 2014-24.…
President Obama’s State of the Union Address last week highlighted a number of themes that focused on creating more opportunities for working Americans by streamlining the tax code, providing financial…
From the New York Times blog, “You’re the Boss” by Jay Goltz: A couple of weeks ago, my production manager asked me a question that I have not looked forward…