Economy
Roads and Bridges Need $1 Trillion. It Is Time to Rebuild America.
I will soon be introducing legislation for a $1 trillion investment to modernize our country's physical infrastructure. This bill will create and maintain 13 million good-paying jobs.
Democrats Take on Wall Street with Financial Transactions Tax
The House Democratic Party leadership made a remarkable step forward last week in putting out a proposal for a financial transactions tax. There should be no mistake; this is a really big deal for the financial industry.
A Blue-Ribbon Panel’s Inequality Blindspot
A "blue-ribbon panel report" on our grand economic divide never gets around to recognizing that in order to save our democracy, we need to contemplate our plutocracy.
What Congress isn't Seeing When the Government Spends
The House adopted a new rule requiring lawmakers to take long-term macroeconomic effects into consideration when voting on tax and spending bills. This "dynamic scoring" has little to do with the way the economy actually works.
The 2015 Economic State of the Union: Get Ready For The Next Debt Crisis
What I could not even have imagined in the 1990s is that EVERY four-year period from 1985 until today has seen federal and household debt soar by more than the total nominal growth in GDP.
Idea for Tackling Inequality Number 27,653: Stop Subsidizing It
Hardly a week goes by in Washington without some a conference on inequality. Most of the discussion assumes that inequality is something that happened. Inequality is something that was done.
Put Working People First
The AFL-CIO launched a campaign last week to wrench worker wages out of the muck and push them up.
The People's Team: Why Progressives Should Back The Green Bay Packers
Knowing my enthusiasm for the Green Bay Packers, a friend emailed me following yesterday's win to say: "It's always nice when a collectively-owned team beats one owned by a greedy mega-capitalist, who's beloved by Chris Christie."
The Supreme Court Must Preserve a Strong and Effective Fair Housing Act
Open, inclusive communities free of discrimination are critical to our national success and central to our values of equal opportunity for all. We've made significant progress toward that goal, but more work remains.
Two Irrepressible Egalitarian Spirits
Two of the world's top progressive social scientists, the British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, reflect on how economic inequality poisons our lives — and how we might detox.
