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 Emily Schwartz Greco | Aug 7, 2014 | Economy
By Emily Schwartz Greco and William A Collins For the first time since 1997, the U.S. economy just added at least 200,000 jobs per month for six months running. GDP grew at a 4 percent annual clip between April and June. The percentage of Americans who describe the...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 5, 2014 | Blog, Economy
Thomas Friedman recently filed an editorial from, and about, Madagascar. In a new piece for Salon, we point out the flaws in his thinking - flaws that mirror his shortsighted and trend-infatuated view of the domestic economy. Friedman is an ideal exemplar of...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 4, 2014 | Blog, Economy, Jobs and Growth
The Commerce Department released some revised figures on America’s economy last week. Previous numbers, Commerce researchers noted, had overestimated the share of the nation’s income going to workers and underestimated the share going to America’s asset-rich....
by Emily DiVito | Jul 30, 2014 | Economy, Gender Justice
As women and their families continue to struggle with the demanding, and sometimes impossible, balance of work and family life, the Make it Work Campaign, launched earlier this summer, hopes to act as an outlet for their frustrations and an ally in their fight. Vivien...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 30, 2014 | Blog, Economy
One of America’s top apologists for our billionaire status quo has a rather daring new approach to defending inequality. He’s claiming to be an egalitarian. And not just any egalitarian. Tyler Cowen, the director of a Koch brother-backed academic center, is claiming...
