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Go Ahead and Lift the Cap
Back in January, the Clinton campaign sent a flyer accusing Obama of planning to impose "a trillion dollar tax increase on America's hard-working families" by lifting the cap on income subject to Social Security taxes. The truth was something different. | Read more »
A New WPA?
National governments, by serving as "employers of last resort," could guarantee full employment by providing a job for anyone ready, willing, and able to work. | Read more »
It's Still the Economy, Stupid
What do Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain have to say about our current reality of financial crisis and recession, and the generation-long stagnation in average living standards that has preceded the crisis of the moment? | Read more »
Dear Dr. Dollar:
Dear Dr. Dollar: Doesn't all the war spending stimulate the economy? And shouldn't the Bush tax cuts do the same? So why are we falling into recession? | Read more »
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West Bengal's Right Turn
- Smriti Rao
- March/April 2008
- Issue 275
The governing left coalition of the Indian state of West Bengal abandons its alternative development path for neoliberal "reforms." |
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Testing Economics
- Mark Maier and Julie Nelson
- March/April 2008
- Issue 275
Does the national economics assessment test high school students for economic literacy—or economic ideology? |
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