The High Costs of the Cloud
Data centers make “the cloud” tangible. The supposed benefits—such as jobs—might not be.
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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
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 "
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
New Issue!
Our January/February issue is (finally) out. We had already been posting articles (it's the layout that takes
New Year links, and a joke
A New Year's joke: First person: "Happy 2015!" Second person: "Don't you mean
Going Postal
Review of The Public Bank Solution: From Austerity to Prosperity by Ellen Brown. Third Millenium Press, 2013.
The Airfare Mystery
Dear Dr. Dollar: Boston is 3,280 air miles from London, only 27% further than the 2,580 air miles
The ACA and America's Health-Care Mess
While it was enacted in 2010 without a single Republican vote, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), a.