The Brookings Institute JULY 27, 2011 — Raising the debt ceiling is a man-made crisis amenable to straightforward policy remedies. Political will is all that is lacking. Not so the economic crisis that our preoccupation with fiscal policy has temporarily obscured. Two major reports underscore both the depth of our economic woes and our increasing [...]

We Knew They Got Raises. But This? By PRADNYA JOSHI IT turns out that the good times are even better than we thought for American chief executives. A preliminary examination of executive pay in 2010, based on data available as of April 1, found that the paychecks for top American executives were growing again, after [...]

April 15, 2011, 8:54 am The Heritage Heritage A blast from the past: the first time I spent a lot of time dredging through Heritage Foundation “analyses” was when I was writing this 2002 piece on inequality. And I was particularly struck by the Heritage work on the estate tax (pdf), which contained passages like [...]

Thank you President Obama for… 1.1 million jobs created in 2010 alone, more than the entire 8 years of George W.Bush:

Opinion:      Mar. 27, 2011 The Arizona Republic A proposed flat tax would radically shift the income-tax burden in Arizona: Eighty-eight percent of Arizona filers, who earn $100,000 or less a year, would pay more. The wealthiest 12 percent would see dramatic cuts. Simplifying our tax system is a fine idea. A flat tax is worth [...]

Why do Americans seem unperturbed about the growing gap between the rich and the poor? Living Beyond Your Means March 21, 2011        Published in the NYTimes Michael I. Norton is an associate professor at the Harvard Business School. He is currently co-writing a book on money and happiness. In a recent survey [...]

By PAUL KRUGMAN More than three years after we entered the worst economic slump since the 1930s, a strange and disturbing thing has happened to our political discourse: Washington has lost interest in the unemployed. Jobs do get mentioned now and then — and a few political figures, notably Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader in [...]

Editorial, “The New Republican Landscape”, Published in “NYTimes”: April 17, 2011 Six months after voters sent Republicans in large numbers to Congress and many statehouses, it is possible to see the full landscape of destruction that their policies would cause — much of which has already begun. If it was not clear before, it is [...]

Top 10 Worst Things about the Republicans’ Immoral Budget The Republican budget would: 1. Destroy 700,000 jobs, according to an independent economic analysis. 2. Zero out federal funding for National Public Radio and public television. 3. Cut $1.3 billion from community health centers—which will deprive more than 3 million low-income people of health care over [...]

By Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America Posted on February 10, 2011, Printed on February 11, 2011 http://www.alternet.org/story/149879/ Asked what most viewers and observers of Fox News would be surprised to learn about the controversial cable channel, a former insider from the world of Rupert Murdoch was quick with a response: “I don’t think people [...]

by Sally Covington Covert Action Quarterly, Winter 1998 Speaking truth to power is all well and good, but applying the dictum, “money talks, ” conservative foundations have long been bankrolling like-minded thin tanks and advocacy groups. Together, they have effected far-reaching changes in US social, political, and economic policy. Proclaiming their movement a war of [...]

By NAFTALI BENDAVID Republicans focused their message on the economy during the last campaign, responding to voters’ anxiety about jobs and government debt to the exclusion of just about everything else. Now, House Republican leaders, with the backing of social conservatives, are pushing ahead with a series of antiabortion bills that will share the stage [...]