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August 24, 2016

What You Earn Does Not Depend on Whether You Attend…

Young people respond to incentives like everyone else; and years of evidence showing that most well-paying jobs go to those…Continue reading

April 4, 2016

Whatever Some Candidates Tell You, the Incomes of Most Americans…

After a decade when most Americans saw their incomes decline, the latest Census Bureau income data contain very good news:…Continue reading

March 3, 2016

Donald Trump’s Chutzpah: His Tax Plan Doubles Down on Inequality…

Donald Trump, often a master of snide generalities, has been very precise about not only his plans for undocumented immigrants…Continue reading

February 1, 2016

GOP Hopefuls Understand Little about Older Americans and Social Security

In last Thursday’s GOP debate, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush and Chris Christie avoided any mention of their common…Continue reading

August 20, 2015

Where Congress and the President Could Find a Few Trillion…

This year’s presidential hopefuls all agree that America has serious problems, with each party blaming the other. As readers of…Continue reading

August 13, 2015

The 2016 Politics of Income Stagnation and Decline

America has a big incomes problem: The incomes of most Americans largely stopped growing around 2002.  Wide public resentment over…Continue reading

June 18, 2015

How Greece Could Short-Circuit the U.S. Expansion

In chaos theory, the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world. This week,…Continue reading

April 28, 2015

What Happens to Your Healthcare When Catastrophes Strike?

Hospitals, clinics, pharmaceutical distributors, and other parts of American healthcare face a quandary: When natural or manmade disasters make their services…Continue reading

March 23, 2015

The 2016 Elections Will Be All about Incomes

The key issue in next year’s elections is already clear: Recent Census Bureau data show that after two decades of…Continue reading

March 5, 2015

Income growth and decline under recent U.S. presidents and the…

The condition of most American households, and of the country as a whole, is set largely by people's income –…Continue reading