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The Land(scape) of Opportunity

It’s the rare occasion when a significant social challenge is raised up in rigorous economic research and almost instantly answered by a creative and dynamic public policy response. Yet, in broad strokes, that’s what’s happening on a critical question of equal...
Every New Job Helps Our Economy

Every New Job Helps Our Economy

Every new job helps the economy. Because every new job is another person shopping at local stores. And every few new jobs mean the stores are hiring, too. Every new job is another person not trying to take your job. So let’s hire people to fix our roads and bridges,...

Republicans Flinch Again

The House Republican leadership, clearly desperate to avoid presiding over a government shutdown, floated a trial balloon to two conservative journalists suggesting a new plan to defund ObamaCare. Since threatening shutdown over defunding ObamaCare is, per the...

The Terrible Divide Between Top And Bottom

Two new stories today that just happened to be located one after the other in my news feed illustrate the divide between what most of us are experiencing, and how the Very Serious People at the top -- the ones who can actually do something to improve things for...
Sequester = 900,000 Jobs Lost In A Year

Sequester = 900,000 Jobs Lost In A Year

Cancel the sequester and stop the cuts. The deficit is already down by more than half. The cuts are cruel and stupid. They hurt people and they hurt the economy. Sequester = 900,000 Jobs Lost I included this as a part of a post the other day, in Jobs, Jobs, Jobs....

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