Middle Class Political Economist

I grew up in a middle-class family, the first to go to college full-time and the first to earn a Ph.D. The economic policies of the last 40 years have reduced the middle class's security, and this blog is a small contribution to reversing that.

Friday, June 25, 2021

United States and European Union Agree to End Tariff War Over Subsidies to Boeing and Airbus

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On June 15 th , the United States and the European Union announced an agreement to finally solve their decades-long dispute over subsidie...

Saturday, June 12, 2021

Big week on the tax reform front

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Tax has been in the news a lot in the past week . With good reason, since "Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society," as...

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Update on Boeing Subsidies

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Whaddaya know? Just four days after I mentioned that Boeing did not repay the billions it had already received from the 2003 Washington s...

Friday, October 9, 2020

Boeing Moves More Jobs from Washington State to South Carolina

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As first reported in The Wall Street Journal , Boeing is ending production of the 787 Dreamliner at Everett, Washington, and moving it to...

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Report Shows Huge Cost of Tax Breaks to South Carolina Public Schools -- Up 31% in Two Years

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My colleagues at Good Jobs First released a new report today showing that South Carolina public schools are losing high, and rapidly risi...

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Kenneth Thomas: Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis; Fellow, Good Jobs First. Author of Competing for Capital: Europe and North America in a Global Era (Georgetown University Press, 2000) and Investment Incentives and the Global Competition for Capital (Palgrave, 2011). Available for research, consulting, and expert testimony. All opinions expressed are my own and not my employers'.

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