A potential update to welfare reform is no substitute for poverty reduction.
Economy
Reporting and analysis on the American economy and economic policy: how markets, monopolies, and public policy shape jobs, wages, and opportunity. Includes our long-running coverage of antitrust and corporate power in The Monopolized Economy.
Posted inEconomy, Education
Segregation and Its Impacts on Latino Education and Earnings
Latinos achieve lower earnings and education in the nation’s most segregated cities, says a new study.
Posted inEconomy, Government, Republic 3.0
How “Queen of the Hill” Can Help Fix Our Highways
This bipartisan solution can save the Highway Trust Fund from a looming shutdown.
Posted inEconomy
The Great Recession’s Last Casualties
For many Americans who’ve been out of work long-term, there may never be a recovery.
Posted inEconomy, Government
Battling Corporate “Short-Termism”
Worsening corporate myopia is a threat to long-term growth, say Brookings Institution scholars William Galston and Elaine Kamarck.
Posted inEconomy, Health Care
The Long Term Care Time Bomb
America’s biggest demographic challenges might be posed not by the very young, but by the very old.
Posted inEconomy
Who Will Win the 21st Century “Brains Race”?
Congress must invest in basic research for America to stay ahead.
Posted inEconomy, Government
Keeping U.S. Aviation Innovation Aloft
Technology is changing aviation’s future. Here’s how Congress can help.
Posted inEconomy, Government, Republic 3.0
Open Data, Better Cities
What Works Cities, a new $42 million initiative, will help cities use data to improve performance and policy.
Posted inEconomy, June/July/August 2015, Magazine
The Post-Ownership Society
How the “sharing economy” allows Millennials to cope with downward mobility, and also makes them poorer.
