by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 21, 2013 | Blog
Fifty years ago, average Americans lived in a society that had been growing — and had become — much more equal. In 1963, of every $100 in personal income, less than $10 went to the nation’s richest 1 percent. Americans today live in a land much more unequal. The...
by Alan Jenkins | Aug 21, 2013 | Blog
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...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 20, 2013 | Blog
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,...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 16, 2013 | Blog
The parents of the Republican Party are away for the summer and the Tea-nagers are ransacking the House. But is it really a surprise that people who hate government itself would act to destroy government itself? Shut The Government Vs. Global Meltdown There are more...
by Bill Scher | Aug 15, 2013 | Blog
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...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 15, 2013 | Blog
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...
