Where Have All the New Jobs Gone?
Job creation has come to a near halt. What explains employers’ reluctance to create new jobs in an expanding economy?
Issue 293
4 articles
Restore the Original Wealth Tax
There's an alternative to the drastic cuts in public services state and local officials are proposing: restore the
State Workers Face a Compensation Penalty
Conservatives that public-sector workers are privileged relative to their private-sector peers or have somehow been cushioned from the effects of the recent recession and slow recovery. Data from Wisconsin as well as Indiana, New Jersey, and Ohio prove that these claims are clearly false.
Across the Great Divide
A review of Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future, by Robert Reich (New York: Alfred Knopf, 2010).