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Joseph M. Firestone's picture

Grueling Work Schedules Necessary To Boost Productivity? Not!

An article in WaPo in the January 28 print edition made the case for decreasing the workload of Americans based on the fourfold increase in the productivity of US workers since the 1950s. more »

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Clyde Prestowitz's picture

US Manufacturing -- Losing Out?

Clyde Prestowitz is founder and President of the Economic Strategy Institute. It is posted as part of our series, Is Manufacturing Making It? more »

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Robert E. Scott's picture

The Myth of the manufacturing recovery

This post originally appeared at The Huffington Post, Robert Scott is Senior International Economist and Director of International Programs, Economic Policy Institute. more »

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Eric Lotke's picture

Green Shoots. For Whom?

Today’s “Productivity and Costs” data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics contain what looks like good news. But keep the cork in the bottles.

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Natasha Chart's picture

Balance of Trade and Share of Global Manufacturing

Last time, we looked at manufacturing output per capita in the world's largest 20 economies. more »

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Eric Lotke's picture

Productivity Rose, Workers Didn’t

Today’s “Productivity and Costs” data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics contains what looks like good news. So why aren't workers celebrating?

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Tula Connell's picture

Working Harder for Less Mocks the American Dream

But the current crisis has long roots. America's working families have been suffering through what is now a generation-long stagnation of wages and rising economic insecurity. Steps must be taken immediately to shore up our flagging economy and provide much-needed assistance to working families.

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Gordon Johnson's picture

Myopic Selfishness of the Wealthy Leads to Constricting Economy

The economic stance in favor today is to give breaks to the wealthy under the expectation that if they have more money, they are more likely to be in a position to invest to make our means of production bigger and better. What the stance is missing is that corporations do lots of marketing studies to figure out how much of what to produce. Guess what the marketing studies look at? more »

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