Thursday, September 8, 2011

Labor Day: Of Nine OECD Members with a Higher Minimum Wage than U.S., Seven Have Lower Unemployment Rates

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When Michele Bachmann says she would “consider” lowering the minimum wage, she tapped into the long-standing theme of conservative economist...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Labor Day: U.S. Has Fifth Lowest Union Density in the OECD

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As was reaffirmed by Vice-President Biden on Labor Day, the American middle class was originally built by the labor movement. That unions h...
Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Labor Day; U.S. Has Weakest Employment Protections Among OECD and BRICS

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This is the first in a series of posts on the sorry state of American labor. International comparisons make this very clear. U.S. workers ar...
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Friday, September 2, 2011

Inflation is Neither as Boring Nor as Simple as it Seems

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One nice thing about Dean Baker's new book, The End of Loser Liberalism , is that it puts the Federal Reserve Bank and inflation un...
Thursday, September 1, 2011

Link to liveblog and video of yesterday's talk in Raleigh

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One of the sponsors of my talk yesterday, NC Policy Watch, put up a liveblog and video from the event. The volume is a little low, so you wi...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Speaking in Raleigh on Wednesday

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Wednesday I'll be speaking at noon in Raleigh, NC, as part of North Carolina Policy Watch's " Crucial Conversations " seri...
Monday, August 29, 2011

$11 million per job? Is that even possible?

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The Las Vegas Review Journal reports that Sempra Energy received $55 million in federal tax credits and state incentives to build its 48-me...