Posts Tagged ‘poverty’
May 11, 2012
The Unfinished Business of the Obama Administration: Poverty & Unemployment
The Obama Administration has unfinished business: lots of it, actually. The President will no doubt seek re-election in November by emphasizing policy successes. He would do well, however, to seek re-election by also recognizing policy failures: recognizing them and committing his Administration to do better. To win re-election, that recognition will need to be honest […] read more »
December 12, 2011
Calling Progressive Economists into the Public Square
“At many stages in the advance of humanity, this conflict between men who possess more than they have earned and the men who have earned more than they possess is the central condition of progress” (Theodore Roosevelt, 1910)[1] Economists are the new public intellectuals of the age. read more »
October 31, 2011
Poverty Amid Plenty – America’s Continuing Shame
The current wave of mass protest against Wall Street excess has completely reframed the public conversation in the United States. The “deficit problem” with which Washington was consumed in the first half of 2011 has not vanished from the political agenda, read more »
July 1, 2011
Celebrating Independence by Seeking to Regain It
The signers of The Declaration of Independence combined political courage with intellectual honesty. Indeed for them, the first was entirely rooted in the second. read more »
June 15, 2011
Not Working in America: People and Public Policy
The job figures for May were truly ghastly. In a month in which the economy needed to add 150,000 jobs simply to keep pace with the growth in the labor force, the private sector created 83,000 jobs and the public sector actually lost 29,000. Nearly 14 million Americans remain involuntarily unemployed. read more »
