by Isaiah J. Poole | May 7, 2015 | Conservatism
Here we go again. If you believe the latest emanations from the right-wing fever swamps, President Obama is coming to take away your Christmas lights. "Federal Agency to Regulate Christmas Lights," warns The Daily Signal, the Heritage Foundation news site....
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 6, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Former Obama administration economist Jared Bernstein is taking his former White House colleagues to task in his new book, "The Reconnection Agenda," for a missed connection between trade policy and jobs. Specifically, Bernstein disagrees with the administration's...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 5, 2015 | Economy, Tax Reform
"The effects of state tax policy on economic growth, entrepreneurship, and employment remain controversial," begins the abstract of a study of state tax policy just released by the Brookings/Urban Institute Tax Policy Center. But that's only in the same sense that the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 1, 2015 | Economy
We've written time and time again about the research debunking the conservative canard that declining marriage rates contribute to high rates of poverty. Still, this argument is a hardy perennial, and with two of its leading proponents, Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 30, 2015 | Jobs and Growth
Several progressive organizations are lining up today in support of the Raise the Wage bill introduced by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Robert Scott (D-Va.). That bill would raise the federal minimum wage, currently $7.25 an hour, to $12 an hour by 2020. That...
