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How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World
Cecilia L. Ridgeway, June 2013
Jobs and Workers, Women, Media and Public Opinion
How American Mothers Can Launch a Social Movement for Workplace Flexibility
Jocelyn Elise Crowley, June 2013
Jobs and Workers, Women, Children & Families, Family Policies, Employer Benefits, Social Movements
Why Does Growing Income Inequality Matter to People and Politics?
Charlotte Cavaille, June 2013
Economic Growth & Innovation, Inequality & the Middle Class
How Advocates Fighting Human Trafficking Can Overcome Divisions and Build Momentum
Laura Murphy, June 2013
Jobs and Workers, Women, Religion, Criminal Justice, Social Movements, Policies in Other Nations
If Immigration Reform is Enacted, Will Newly Legalized Migrants Have Access to Federal Social Benefits?
Cybelle Fox, May 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Social Security, Antipoverty Policy
How Lives Can be Saved by Stressing Employer Verification instead of Border Barriers for Immigration Enforcement
David Scott FitzGerald, May 2013
Jobs and Workers, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Security & Intelligence
Immigration Reform and the Contentious Issue of Extra Visas for Science and Technology Workers
John D. Skrentny, May 2013
Science & Technology, Jobs and Workers, Economic Growth & Innovation, Immigrants & Immigration Reform
Comprehensive Immigration Reform, 2013 Edition
Robert W. Glover, May 2013
Jobs and Workers, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Security & Intelligence
The Pros and Cons of State Tax Breaks for Senior Citizens
Bayliss J. Camp and Charles Lockhart, May 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Aging Society
How the Heritage Foundation Uses Strange Math and Flawed Logic to Inflate the Cost of Immigration Reform
Richard Alba, May 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Immigrants & Immigration Reform
How Competition to Attract Businesses Leads to Economic Losses for Cities and States
Cynthia L. Rogers, April 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Economic Growth & Innovation
Providing Labor Protections for Home Care Workers
Sandra Butler, March 2013
Jobs and Workers, Women, Courts & Court Decisions
Targeting Extreme Polluters to Reduce Carbon Emissions from the Electricity Sector
Don Grant, Andrew K. Jorgenson and Wesley Longhofer, February 2013
Economic Growth & Innovation, Environment, Energy
Money Matters - For All Schoolchildren
Melissa F. Weiner, February 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, School Reform, K-12 Education
Deficit Hawks Reflect the Views of the Wealthy, Not the Majority
Benjamin I. Page, February 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Media and Public Opinion
Why There is Nothing Scary about the U.S. National Debt
Anne Mayhew, February 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes
How Did We Get Here? The Roots of Deficit Brinksmanship
Joseph White, February 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
Why are Republicans Trying to Kill America's Wind and Solar Power Industries?
Eban Goodstein, January 2013
Economic Growth & Innovation, Energy, Climate Change Policies & Politics
Does Providing Publicly Funded Jobs to Hard-to-Employ People Reduce Crime and Drug Use?
Sarah Shannon, January 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Jobs and Workers, Criminal Justice
Should Citizens Have a Say about Emerging Technologies?
Jennifer Kuzma, January 2013
Science & Technology, Economic Growth & Innovation, Media and Public Opinion
The Case for Curbing Oklahoma's Oil and Gas Tax Breaks
David Blatt, January 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Energy
How Debt Showdowns Encourage Credit Bubbles
Sarah Quinn, January 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Economic Growth & Innovation, Housing
A Strategy to Foster Advanced Manufacturing in the United States
Fred Block, Matthew R. Keller, Andrew Schrank and Josh Whitford, December 2012
Economic Growth & Innovation
Can Workers and Environmentalists Learn to Cooperate?
Erik Loomis, December 2012
Unions & the Labor Movement, Jobs and Workers, Environment
When Easy Credit Replaces Wage Increases, Prosperity is Fragile and America's Middle Class Suffers
Kevin T. Leicht, December 2012
Economic Growth & Innovation, Inequality & the Middle Class
Who Pays America's Taxes?
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez and Vanessa Williamson, November 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
America's Low Taxes in Comparative Perspective
Andrea Louise Campbell, November 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
The Strengths and Limits of the Earned Income Tax Credit as a Tool to Fight Poverty
Daniel S. Feder, November 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Antipoverty Policy
When and Why Have Americans Supported Higher Taxes?
Elizabeth Pearson, November 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
Could Reducing Tax Expenditures Tame the Federal Debt?
Leonard Burman and Marvin M. Phaup, October 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
Is Wall Street Looking to Profit from School Reform?
Jeff Faux, October 2012
Economic Growth & Innovation, School Reform
What the Ryan Budget Means for Missouri Families
David Brian Robertson and Theda Skocpol, September 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Cities and Regions, Family Policies
How Mandated Auto Insurance Helps Make Sense of the Individual Mandate in Health Reform
Jennifer B. Wriggins, September 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Health Care Reform
Why America's Public Sector Unions Face Political Attacks
John Stephen Ahlquist, September 2012
Unions & the Labor Movement, Jobs and Workers, Social Movements
How the Ryan Budget Would Undercut American Education
Lynne Miller, September 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, School Reform, Higher Education
Why America Needs to Regulate Career Programs that Burden Taxpayers and Break Promises to Students
John Dorrer, September 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Higher Education
Building an Economy for All
Jacob S. Hacker and Nathaniel Loewentheil, August 2012
Jobs and Workers, Economic Growth & Innovation, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
How to Reduce Persistent Poverty for Single Mothers
Randy Albelda, August 2012
Jobs and Workers, Women, Antipoverty Policy
The Prospects for Reducing Poverty are Dismal - Unless America's Leaders Change Course
Sheldon Danziger, August 2012
Jobs and Workers, Economic Growth & Innovation, Unemployment Insurance, Antipoverty Policy
What the Ryan Budget Plan Would Mean for Virginia
Christopher Howard, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
The Ryan Budget and Medicare - Headed the Wrong Way
Larry Polivka, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Medicare & Medicaid
What a Tax on Wall Street Speculation Can Do for America
Dean Baker, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Economic Growth & Innovation
The Ryan Budget and Michigan: A Few Win, but Millions Lose
Luke Shaefer and Theda Skocpol, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
Why the Republican-Ryan Plan for Medicaid Would Hurt the Most Vulnerable and Put the Fifty States in a Bind
Colleen M. Grogan, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Medicare & Medicaid
How the Ryan Budget Supported by House Republicans Would Devastate Low-Income Americans
Scott W. Allard, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
If Republicans Slash Funding for Low-Income Americans, Can Nonprofit and Religious Charities Fill the Gap?
Scott W. Allard, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
What Women Will Lose if the Ryan Budget Becomes Law
Ann Orloff and Christine Percheski, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Women
The Ryan Republican Budget: A Blueprint for Permanent Austerity
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson , July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
Will Taxes on Sugary Soft Drinks Improve Health?
Jason Fletcher, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Pharmaceutical & Food Regulation
Why the Ryan Budget is a Bad Deal for Ohio
Peter M. Shane, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
The High Stakes for Maine in Fights about the Ryan Budget
Luisa S. Deprez and Amy Fried, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
Demanding Fairness on the Job: New Uses for an Old Law
Jessica Garrick, June 2012
Unions & the Labor Movement, Jobs and Workers
How Alaska Citizens Benefit Equally from Shared Wealth
Michael W. Howard, June 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Environment
Fighting Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Amy Blackstone, May 2012
Jobs and Workers, Women
Raising Excise Taxes Can Help Fight Alcohol Abuse
Philip J. Cook, May 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
Why the Rich Have an Interest in Paying Higher Taxes
Robert H. Frank, May 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Inequality & the Middle Class
How Job Losses Affect Youngsters and Their Schools
Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, May 2012
Jobs and Workers
How Ronald Reagan Taught Republicans to Love Tax Cuts
Monica Prasad, April 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, U.S. Foreign Policy, International Development
Birth Control is an Economic Issue for Women and Their Families
Carole Joffe, April 2012
Jobs and Workers, Women, Health Care Reform, Election 2012
The Vital Role of Government in U.S. Economic Innovation
Fred Block and Matthew R. Keller, April 2012
Economic Growth & Innovation
Why Many Americans Resent Public Employees
Katherine Cramer Walsh, April 2012
Jobs and Workers, Media and Public Opinion
Union Decline and Rising U.S. Wage Inequality
Jake Rosenfeld and Bruce Western, March 2012
Unions & the Labor Movement, Jobs and Workers, Inequality & the Middle Class
The Future of America's Transportation Infrastructure
Thomas Fisher, March 2012
Science & Technology, Public Budgets and Taxes, Economic Growth & Innovation, Environment
Paid Family Leave in California and New Jersey: The Benefits for Working Families and Employers
Eileen Appelbaum and Ruth Milkman, March 2012
Jobs and Workers, Women, Inequality & the Middle Class
Low-Wage Workers and Paid Family Leave: The California Experience
Eileen Appelbaum and Ruth Milkman, March 2012
Jobs and Workers, Women, Inequality & the Middle Class
Can America Afford to Maintain Its Position in the World?
Richard Lachmann, March 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, U.S. Foreign Policy
U.S. Living Standards and Global Competition: Lessons from Abroad
Peter Evans, March 2012
Jobs and Workers, Economic Growth & Innovation
When Cooperation through Government Makes Sense
Jane Mansbridge, February 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
Tax Expenditures: What They are and Who Benefits
Christopher Howard, January 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
Making American Jobs Better for Everyone
Paul Osterman, January 2012
Jobs and Workers
How Government by the Privileged Distorts Economic Policy
Nicholas Carnes, January 2012
Unions & the Labor Movement, Public Budgets and Taxes, Inequality & the Middle Class, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
How America Can Better Enforce Laws to Protect Workers
Andrew Schrank, January 2012
Jobs and Workers
Fighting Rigged Markets Promotes Equal Opportunity
Dean Baker, December 2011
Jobs and Workers, Economic Growth & Innovation, Inequality & the Middle Class
Why Americans Can't See Government -- and Why It Matters
Suzanne Mettler, October 2011
Public Budgets and Taxes
How Washington Has Made the Rich Richer – And Abandoned the Middle Class
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson , October 2011
Public Budgets and Taxes, Inequality & the Middle Class, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy