We Need a Care Package!
We've built an economy that depends on unpaid and underpaid care, but penalizes the people who provide it.
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Why the Shift from Production to Speculation?
Dear Dr. Dollar: Why has our economy switched so greatly away from manufacturing that produces real goods and services that
David Cay Johnston at the JP Forum, Tuesday 4/15
Please join us this Tuesday, April 15th for a Tax Day talk by David Cay Johnston: "Taxes and Inequality:
Congressman Bill Foster Explains Why Middle Class Tax Cuts Lead to Economic Growth
[Bill Foster (IL-11) says it better than I could myself—Polly] Washington, DC, Friday, April 4, 2014 – Today, Congressman Bill
New Issue!
(You may have noticed some problems with the blog--several of the posts from earlier this year have strangely disappeared. I
Obama's Pacific Deal Would Deepen Income Divide
"Those at the top have never done better," President Obama ruefully acknowledged in his January 28 State of
Assessing Those CBO Numbers on the Minimum Wage
Many supporters of an increase in the minimum wage viewed projections of job loss in the recent report from the
The Rise of the Gig Economy
Growing numbers of Americans no longer hold a regular "job" with a long-term connection to a particular business.
Full-Page NYT Ad Against Proponents of Wage Hike
In a full-page ad in Thursday's New York Times, the Employment Policies Institute urged readers to "take
Increasing the Minimum Wage Can Actually Create Jobs—If It's Enforced
Back when I first studied economics, we “proved” in class that a minimum wage causes unemployment. You just draw supply