by Joshua Holland | Oct 9, 2014 | Blog
Washington greeted the latest jobs numbers with enthusiasm. In September, the unemployment rate fell below six percent for the first time since July, 2008. We’ve netted 2.64 million jobs over the past 12 months, and are on pace to add more jobs in 2014 than in any...
by Joshua Holland | Sep 23, 2014 | Financial Reform, Progressive Vision
By Joshua Holland and John Light On Monday, a day after an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 people participated in the People’s Climate March in New York, a smaller group of activists set out to shut down Wall Street. The day began with a festive atmosphere, and ended...
by Joshua Holland | Aug 11, 2014 | Economy
For many years there were some economists who argued that their discipline shouldn’t worry about inequality. Economists, they said, should focus on efficiency and growth, and leave the distribution up to the political world. But a research brief released on Tuesday by...
by Joshua Holland | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog
Those seething with so much rage and xenophobia that they’d hurl ugly epithets in the faces of children fleeing bloody violence in Central America bring shame to the whole nation. But the response of mainstream America hasn’t been much better. The media’s...
by Joshua Holland | Jun 13, 2014 | Climate
There is nothing controversial about the work of climatologist Michael Mann, director of Penn State’s Earth System Science Center. His innovative research helped recreate the Earth’s historical temperature record and separate the noise of natural weather fluctuations...
