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The Teaching Penalty: We Can’t Recruit and Retain Excellent Educators on the Cheap
By Lawrence Mishel, Sylvia Allegretto, & Sean Corcoran
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN EDUCATION WEEK ON APRIL 30, 2008, VOL. 27, ISSUE 35, PAGE 30. ]
 

Report distorted the debate: Education reform is no cure-all for low-income, low-achieving schools
By Lawrence Mishel
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE USA TODAY ON APRIL 18, 2008.]

Is This the Big One?
By Jeff Faux
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE NATION ON APRIL 14, 2008. ]

What Is McCain's Economic Agenda?
By Jared Bernstein
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE ONLINE ISSUE OF THE AMERICAN PROSPECT ON MARCH 17, 2008. ]

Cap and lease carbon
By John Irons
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE SPRING 2008 ISSUE #8 OF THE DEMOCRACY JOURNAL. ]

Renewing 'Made in the USA'
By Susan Helper
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE WASHINGTON POST ON MARCH 4, 2008. ]

Overhauling NAFTA
By Jeff Faux
[ POSTED TO VIEWPOINTS ON FEBRUARY 29, 2008. ]

Be wary of half-a-loaf economic stimulus
By Ross Eisenbrey
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE DETROIT NEWS ON FEBRUARY 14, 2008. ]

Half-a-loaf stimulus
By Nancy Cleeland
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE NATION ON FEBRUARY 13, 2008. ]

Escape from recession: What you should know about the economic stimulus package
By Jared Bernstein and Lawrence Mishel
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN IN THESE TIMES ON FEBRUARY 11, 2008. ]

Statement by EPI President Lawrence Mishel on stimulus deal reached by White House and Congress
By Lawrence Mishel
[ POSTED TO VIEWPOINTS ON JANUARY 24, 2008. ]

Citi’s Mexican Cronies
By Jeff Faux
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE NATION ON DECEMBER 17, 2008.]

China's currency defiance
By Robert Scott
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE WASHINGTON TIMES ON DECEMBER 13, 2008. ]

Leaving “No Child Left Behind” Behind
By Richard Rothstein
[THIS ARTICLE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2008 ISSUE OF THE AMERICAN PROSPECT.]

The pain of globalisation
By Jared Bernstein and Josh Bivens
[THIS PIECE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY THEGUARDIAN.CO.UK ON NOVEMBER 9, 2007.]

No cheers for CAFTA
By Ottón Solís
[THIS PIECE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY TOMPAINE.COM ON OCTOBER 19, 2007.]

Why You Should Care About the 2007 Economic Nobel: Who are those guys? What exactly is "mechanism design theory" and what does it mean?
By John S. Irons
[THIS PIECE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON THE AMERICAN PROSPECT WEB SITE ON OCTOBER 16, 2007.]

Schools as Scapegoats
By Lawrence Mishel and Richard Rothstein
[THIS PIECE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE OCTOBER 2007 EDITION OF THE AMERICAN PROSPECT.]

Much work to do to ensure future Labor Days brighter: Post-WW II gains for all workers must be reclaimed
By Ross Eisenbrey
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE ON SEPTEMBER 3, 2007. ]

Living on the crumbs: While fat cats feast on income gains, working stiffs settle for less of the pie
By Jared Bernstein
[ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ON SEPTEMBER 3, 2007.]

Stop corporate abuse and fix layoff warning law
By Ross Eisenbrey
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE DETROIT NEWS ON AUGUST 24, 2007. ]

Breaking the immigration deadlock
By Jared Bernstein and Ross Eisenbrey
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN TOMPAINE.COM ON JUNE 29, 2007. ]

Americans' ambivalence about the economy: Beyond Rose's rosy scenario
By Lawrence Mishel, David Kusnet, and Ruy Teixeira
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN HUFFINGTONPOST.COM ON JUNE 22, 2007. ]

Reforms that could help narrow the achievement gap
By Richard Rothstein
[ POSTED TO VIEWPOINTS ON JUNE 1, 2007. ]

Subsidizing Downward Mobility: The problem with the Democrats' proposed wage insurance program
By Ross Eisenbrey
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE AMERICAN PROSPECT ON APRIL 18, 2007. ]

The health-finance debate reaches a fever pitch
By Elise Gould
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION ON APRIL 13, 2007. ]

It is time to pause on free trade
By Jeff Faux
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE HILL ON APRIL 20, 2007. ]

Tax Credits or Minimum Wages? We Need Both
By Jared Bernstein and Elaine Maag
[ POSTED TO VIEWPOINTS ON MARCH 15, 2007. ]

A Test of Time: Unchanged Priorities for Student Outcomes
By Richard Rothstein and Rebecca Jacobsen
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR ON MARCH 5, 2007. ]

Minimum Wage, Maximum Pork: The breaks could just as easily benefit owners not affected by the wage increase 
By Max B. Sawicky
[ THIS OP-ED ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE FEBURUARY 19, 2007 ONLINE ISSUE OF BUSINESS WEEK. ]

In appreciation -- George Becker, 1929 – 2007: So long, George
By Jeff Faux
[ THIS PIECE WAS WRITTEN ON FEBRUARY 7, 2007. ]

Jay Greene’s persistent misuse of data for teacher pay comparisons
By Lawrence Mishel
[ THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN ON FEBRUARY 2, 2007. ]

Bush's Whitewashed Economic Report
By Jared Bernstein
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN TOMPAINE.COM ON JANUARY 23, 2007. ]

Keep it Clean: There's no good reason to lard the coming minimum wage bill with extraneous new tax cuts
By Jared Bernstein and Lawrence Mishel
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE AMERICAN PROSPECT ONLINE ON JANUARY 3, 2007. ]