Amy Traub
- Shared High Unemployment And Falling Wages, Or Job Creation And Help For Cities? (Progressive Opinion)July 22, 2010 - 9:56am
It would be easy to move from economic despondency to political despair: The tremendous difficulty of passing even a six-month extension in bare bones unemployment insurance has convinced many analysts that additional federal job creation measures are off the table. But why not call Republicans’ bluff and try to fund specific job creation measures with tax increases the American people support?
- October 29, 2008 - 11:48am
When Alan Greenspan admits free market ideology is flawed, you know conservative thought is up a creek.
But never fear: if conservative economic ideas have been discredited, the Right can still distort progressive ones.
- September 18, 2008 - 8:30am
Education alone won’t solve the economic problems underlying the middle-class squeeze. We need an economy in which working people have more power in the labor market.
- Rated Poll: A Worried Middle Class Supports Progressive Policy (Blog entry) | August 19, 2008 - 1:18pm
- August 19, 2008 - 1:18pm
Americans are worried about the present and pessimistic about the future, a new poll by the Drum Major Institute finds. But we are not nearly so divided on issues of public policy as the typical media reports of a country divided by red and blue might lead us to believe. In fact, there’s broad bipartisan support for a range of progressive policies.
