Bernie Sanders and Trump’s Pick for Health and Human Services Face Off on Right to Health Care
Sanders remains virtually alone among opposition leaders in being willing to take on Trump Administration policy positions.
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Bill Black: Obama Loved Austerity and the New Democrats Remain Addicted to It
Black blasts Obama for prescribing austerity and presenting it as good for Americans when it is good only for financiers and the rich.
Read more...More on the Economic Hardship of Young Adults
Young adults have had a very rough go and don’t have good reason to expect their economic condition to improve much.
Read more...Debate Over Health Care Yet Again Omits Elephants In the Room: Excessive Costs Due to Terrible Incentives and Pricing, Administrative Costs, Pharma Looting
Health care in America is broken and the press and pundits seem desperate to paper over how bad it is.
Read more...Does Immigration Boost Growth? A Look at Data From Around the World
Comparative data on immigration doesn’t support the tidy economists’ story that it good for growth…at least not recently.
Read more...“Many Areas of Appalachia and Mississippi Delta Have Lower Life Expectancy Than Bangladesh”
Four Nobel Prize winners agree that rent-seeking is the biggest driver of rising inequality.
Read more...Lessons From the Demise of the TPP
Yves here. This post makes a point at the end in passing about the value of multilateralism, even though the TPP was otherwise a very bad scheme on multiple levels. This serves as a reminder to mention something I’ve neglected to say. Trump’s plan to enter into bi-lateral trade deals (after supposedly tearing up extant […]
Read more...Yet Another Glaring Flaw With Trump Infrastructure Plan: Dependence on Vagaries of Tiny, Slow-Moving Tax Equity Market
The oh-so-clever Trump plan to use tax credits to fund infrastructure spending means it will be too small and slow to provide any real boost.
Read more...One of the Reasons Republicans Hate Food Stamps? It Helps Democrats Win Elections
Many people think food stamp advocacy is politically dangerous for Democrats, but a new paper suggests otherwise.
Read more...Trump’s Win: America’s Failures of Representation and Prospects for Democracy
Looking at why Trump won and the implications for his presidency.
Read more...Robots, Universal Basic Income, and the Welfare State
“Robots are coming for your job” may be more scare talk than reality, but instilling that belief helps weaken labor bargaining power.
Read more...How Do Americans Get Rich? (And Stay Rich?)
A deep dive into the sources of rich Americans’ wealth.
Read more...F@ck Work?
Why arguments against work are another manifestation of neoliberalism.
Read more...Sexual Orientation and Earnings: How Being in a Partnership Matters
Sexual orientation does affect earnings, but not necessarily in the way you might have assumed.
Read more...The Invention of the White Working Class
“White working class” is a dog whistle, not a demographic.
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