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Does Charles Lane Know Where Kids Go to College? 27 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
Higher Education Charles Lane is a smart guy, but his recent column in the Washington Post on higher education makes you wonder how much he has dug into that issue. read more
What Would It Look Like If Income Gains Had Been Shared? 27 Aug 2013 | 11:29 am
Economy & Opportunity By now, most know that income inequality has dramatically shot up in the last forty years. Increased productivity has generated more national income, but the distribution of tha...
50 Years After the March: Injustice Remains in America 27 Aug 2013 | 12:58 am
Demos Distinguished Senior Fellow Bob Herbert joined the Up with Steve Kornacki panel to discuss, 50 years later, the read more
Cato's Dated Welfare vs. Work Framework 27 Aug 2013 | 12:48 am
Jobs & Income Economy & Opportunity The Cato Institute came out with a big study recently that argues the familiar point that generous welfare payments undermine incentives to work. The Center for B...
Race in America: Miles Rapoport Joins W.K. Kellogg Foundation Panel 26 Aug 2013 | 11:50 pm
To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation brought together civil rights advocates to talk about the state of the civil rights movements. read more
Grading Colleges on Access to the American Dream 26 Aug 2013 | 09:40 pm
Huffington Post | Leo W. Gerard Right now, eager 18-year-olds from across the country are tweeting with bravado photos of their newly postered dorm rooms and scanning with private fear their freshm...
The Union Solution to Market Failure 26 Aug 2013 | 09:01 pm
If you don't like unions, pray for tight labor markets. Because when labor is scarce, the law of supply and demand raises wages and workers don't have big incentives to unionize. It's when market's ar...
What's the Right Treatment for Trader Addiction in the Age of Bubbles? 26 Aug 2013 | 07:59 pm
Financial Reform On Friday, Paul Krugman dealt with financial market price bubbles, focusing specifically on emerging markets. He takes on the issue of bubble creation as a result of aggressive Fed l...
Justice Ginsburg on the Corporate-Friendly Roberts Court 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
On NOW with Alex Wagner, Demos Vice President of Policy and Outreach Heather McGhee discussed a recent New York T read more
President Obama Could Do Something with the Stroke of a Pen 25 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Washington Monthly | Kathleen Geier You know the drill — we have a dysfunctional political system and a gridlocked Congress. The House is firmly in the grip of a band of Republican maniacs and the ...
