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.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

U.S. has 18th best unemployment benefits in OECD; also trails 13 non-OECD countries

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Tim Vlandas at EU Welfare States flags some important recent International Monetary Fund data on the generosity of a number of countries...
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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Top 1% Reduced Taxes in Last 3 Years but Probably Gained Income Share

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Citizens for Tax Justice came out with a nice report today showing that the overall U.S. tax system is just barely "progressive,"...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

America Shows No Increase in College Graduation Rates over the last 30 Years

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Jared Bernstein (via Paul Krugman ) highlights an amazing breakdown in the prospects for reducing economic inequality any time soon. Over t...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Romney Gets Incoherent on Pre-Existing Conditions

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Mitt Romney was on the Jay Leno Show last night (via @didkins4life) and gave a completely incoherent account of whether people with pre-exi...

The Best Data on Middle Class Decline (Updated)

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The flurry of posts earlier this month on middle class decline ( me , Lane Kenworthy , Matthew Yglesias , Kevin Drum ) made me think some mo...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Apple Whines About Having to Pay Taxes

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On Monday, Apple announced that it was going to start paying dividends to shareholders, and buy back $10 billion worth of stock. What caugh...
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Monday, March 12, 2012

Basics: Real Wages Remain Below Their Peak for 39th Straight Year

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The release last month of the Economic Report of the President has elicited a great deal of commentary, but none that I have seen touches o...
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Kenneth Thomas
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis. 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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