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The Case for Guaranteed Access to Prescription Drugs
Everyone complains about the prices of prescription drugs. Yet, 60 percent of us use them, because they help relieve our…Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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