…middle class and state and local taxes Economist Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and founding co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI),…

…the new tax bracket created for millionaires in Maryland, at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy: Five Reasons to Reinstate Maryland’s Millionaires’ Tax, ITEP (March 9, 2011). cross posted…

…Just how much more would a 20-something pay? According to researchers at the Urban Institute, eliminating age rating would lift average premiums for those 18 to 34 years old by…

…minimally) progressive tax system to an explicitly regressive tax system. Such a move favors those with capital assets and mainly capital income. Claims (like that made by the Civitas Institute…

…L-118 (financial assets only), for DB, DC, and government employee programs; Investment Company Institute for IRAs This gigantic hole shows that the current model, based on 401(k)’s rather than true…

I will be going today: The United States and China in the 21st Century 2013 Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs, Wellesley College, MA Former Secretary of State Madeleine…

by Robert Pollin who is Co-director, Political Economy Research Institute and Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (reposted with permission from the author from his website Back to full…

…standard of living through measures that encourage job creation (by creating demand) and provide security against job loss and the vulnerabilities of old age and sickness. The Peterson Institute is…

…report from the Migration Policy Institute. The spending on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection dwarfs the combined $14.4 billion spent on the FBI; Bureau of Alcohol,…

Marshall Auerback, a Director of Institutional Partnerships at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (www.ineteconomics.org) Let’s cut the crap about Japan’s Lost Decade. As Hill notes, we tend to use…