by Lynne Stuart Parramore | Apr 4, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, This Is The GOP
This post was originally published on the blog of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. From the lips of Paul Ryan, Chief Spokesman of Blame-the-Poor politics, came a curious mea culpa just last week: He should not have referred to hard-working Americans trying to...
by Robert Reich | Mar 24, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Economy, This Is The GOP
[fve]https://youtu.be/5KiXBqCS_wg[/fve] The tax cuts for the rich proposed by the two leading Republican candidates for the presidency – Donald Trump and Ted Cruz – are larger, as a proportion of the government budget and the total economy, than any tax cuts ever...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 24, 2016 | Blog, Economy, People's Budget
You've heard people ask, "How come they can come up with a couple trillion dollars to invade Iraq, or hundreds of billions for corporate tax cuts, but say we're broke when we need to fix our infrastructure so pipes don't contaminate children with lead poisoning?" The...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 23, 2016 | Blog, Economy, People's Budget
[fve]https://vimeo.com/160077235[/fve]Jasmine Tucker, senior research analyst at the National Priorities Project, discusses the negative impact the House Republican budget would have if it became law. The House Republican budget proposal for fiscal 2017 faces an...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 22, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Steven Pearlstein, in the ominously titled "What Bernie Sanders would do to America" at The Washington Post, warns that asking our government to do things like raising the minimum wage to $15, extending public education by four years, providing Medicare-for-All and...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 8, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
The deep pockets that make up America’s top 1 percent have been on quite a run. Their share of the nation’s wealth, as economist Gabriel Zucman details in a new Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality analysis, has soared from 25 percent in the 1970s to 42 percent...
