Republican Tax Cuts: You’re Right, They’re Not About Economic Growth or Lifting Working-Class Incomes on November 27, 2017Will average household incomes rise if Republican tax cuts become law? Not for long. Average cuts will be small and they won’t last. In the House version, the middle fifth of the households may see their after-tax income rise by 1.5% in 2018, but most of that increase will be gone by 2027. The richest […]
Why $15 an hour should be the absolute minimum minimum wage on April 3, 2017There are many important issues on the national political table right now, but sometime soon, fixing the federal minimum wage should be there too. Of course, the politics of reform don’t look good, but there is a Congressional election coming next year, and we need to be sure that voters understand that almost every Republican […]
Can we bring back many factory jobs? Lets do the math on September 10, 2016Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton promise to bring back jobs lost to foreign producers. There are many questions about these promises but the most important are whether they can do it, and how many jobs can be brought back. This piece focuses on the second issue. How many factory jobs can be brought back? We’ve […]