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CEO Pay And SEC Delay
Earlier this week I wrote about Executive PayWatch from the AFL-CIO. This site tracks the huge wage gap between CEO pay and the average employee. Something many people don't know is that the Wall Street reform law was supposed to do this, but years later the...
CEO Pay And SEC Delay
Earlier this week I wrote about Executive PayWatch from the AFL-CIO. This site tracks the huge wage gap between CEO pay and the average employee. Something many people don't know is that the Wall Street reform law was supposed to do this, but years later the...
How Much Unemployment Was Caused by Reinhart and Rogoff's Arithmetic Mistake?
That's the question millions will be asking when they see the new paper by my friends at the University of Massachusetts, Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin. Herndon, Ash, and Pollin (HAP) corrected the spreadsheets of Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff. They...
How Much Unemployment Was Caused by Reinhart and Rogoff's Arithmetic Mistake?
That's the question millions will be asking when they see the new paper by my friends at the University of Massachusetts, Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin. Herndon, Ash, and Pollin (HAP) corrected the spreadsheets of Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff. They...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Sinking American Electorate - Unmarried Women On The Edge Page Gardner of Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund: "Composed of unmarried women, African Americans, Latinos, other people of color, and youth ages 18-29, the Rising American Electorate, or...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Sinking American Electorate - Unmarried Women On The Edge Page Gardener of Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund: "Composed of unmarried women, African Americans, Latinos, other people of color, and youth ages 18-29, the Rising American Electorate, or...
Sinking American Electorate: Unmarried Women On The Edge
As millions of Americans raced to the post office this week to mail in their taxes, we were reminded that April is, indeed, the cruelest month. It’s cruel because the sagging economy continues to create economic hardships for working-class Americans — including the...
Sinking American Electorate: Unmarried Women On The Edge
As millions of Americans raced to the post office this week to mail in their taxes, we were reminded that April is, indeed, the cruelest month. It’s cruel because the sagging economy continues to create economic hardships for working-class Americans — including the...
A Middle-Class Anthem: Good-Paying Green Jobs
“Tell me I’m your national anthem.” That was the theme of the hundreds of environmentalists and labor union members gathered today at the BlueGreen Alliance’s annual conference in Washington. They wanted to remind President Obama and Congress that the middle class is...
A Middle-Class Anthem: Good-Paying Green Jobs
“Tell me I’m your national anthem.” That was the theme of the hundreds of environmentalists and labor union members gathered today at the BlueGreen Alliance’s annual conference in Washington. They wanted to remind President Obama and Congress that the middle class is...
