Amy Traub
- December 16, 2008 - 12:57pm
You’ve seen this scenario before. No sooner is a progressive new policy proposed than the knee-jerk denunciations begin: the pie-in-the-sky policy you’ve dreamed up will never work. Instead, it will kill jobs! It will squander tax dollars! Private sector incentives will be suppressed and axe-wielding criminals will run free in the streets!
- 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.
