Today CAP released a big, bold report, 300 Million Engines of Growth, edited by Jennifer Erickson and Michael Ettlinger. Jim Tankersley writes about it in today’s Washington Post: The core of the plan is the notion that economies grow and thrive best when prosperity is broadly shared — a rebuke of the income and wealth […]
Monthly Archives: June 2013
There’s a growing body of evidence that the economy grows from the middle out. I had the privilege of contributing to a new issue of Democracy, which lays these ideas out. From the editorial: At first blush, the claim that politicians need to take the needs of the middle class more seriously might seem like pushing […]
My friend Stephanie Coontz has a terrific column in this weekend’s New York Times to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, signed into law on June 10th, 1963: Progress At Work, But Mothers Still Pay a Price. She makes the point that we’ve come a long way, but we still have a long […]
In Why Can’t America Be Sweden?, Thomas Edsall points to a growing debate in economics: If some countries can have strong growth while also having strong supports for workers and their families, why can’t all countries grow that way? In the post, he focuses on a working paper by MIT economist Daron Acemoglu and his co-authors, James A. […]
My colleague Michael Linden put out a new report this week where he makes the case that we need “reset” our national budget debate. That’s a good idea. I want to point readers to the conclusions Michael lists on the pain that austerity has caused in the US and abroad: The key argument that high […]
