The Tariff Reckoning Comes Due
…its SKUs; John Deere took a $300 million hit; Stellantis, McCormick, and Constellation Brands each reported meaningful drags on earnings. Economists at Yale’s Budget Lab and the Peterson Institute estimate…
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Minimum Wages and Unemployment
…Economic Policy Institute “Most minimum wage studies have found little or no job loss,” Economic Policy Institute “A $15 minimum wage changes more than just take-home pay : Monthly Labor…
Figuring the costs of minimum wage hikes
Real News interviews Jeannette Wicks-Lim is an Associate Professor at the Political Economy Research Institute in Amherst, Massachusetts. Wicks-Lim specializes in labor economics with an emphasis on the low-wage labor…
The Freedom to Diminish Other Peoples’ Freedom
by Mike Kimel The Freedom to Diminish Other Peoples’ Freedom You’ve probably heard about this study by the Mercatus Institute looking at Freedom in the 50 States. I always find…
Crisis? What Crisis?
…questions from Bloggers here, and the general Kauffman Institute blog site, Growthology, here. I’m failing miserably at developing a Macro model that supports the majority answer for all the questions….
There are limits to the analogy between Clinton’s 2008 primary contest with Obama and Sanders’s primary contest now with her. Clinton doesn’t get that. But she needs to figure it out because the differences matter.
…Harvard Institute of Politics. And many progressive older folks know this, too. At least those who aren’t New York Times op-ed columnists or the like. ____ ADDENDUM: Just want to…
Jail and Prison Populations Decreased Since 2019
The Vera Institutes report on Jails and Prisons is accurate. I am basing this comment on what I know about them in the past. Obviously, things have changed over time….
Half of U.S workers Will Live in States with at Least a $15 Minimum Wage by 2027
Nearly half of U.S workers will live in states with at least a $15 minimum wage by 2027, Economic Policy Institute In the 2024 election, Alaska and Missouri voters approved…
Obama caves yet again: offering Social Security cuts to appease the right…
…$28,004 by age 95″ (from release by Social Security Works, based on “Inflation Indexation in Major Federal Benefit Programs: Impact of the Chained CPI,” Alison Shelton, AARP Public Policy Institute,…
Trans Pacific Partnership Bad for the Middle Class, but How Bad? UPDATED
…sources for this are UNCTAD, the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, and the International Institute for Sustainable Development. So what’s in the TPP investment chapter? As far as…