EPI Viewpoints Archive - 2007
January 10, 2007

Viewpoints - 2007

Viewpoints are listed below in chronological order. To browse by topic, please click here. To browse by viewpoint category, please click here.
See also Lessons (weekly New York Times education column by Richard Rothstein) and articles by EPI economists published in The American Prospect.

The characteristics of offshorable jobs
By Jared Bernstein, James Lin, and Lawrence Mishel
[POSTED TO VIEWPOINTS ON NOVEMBER 14, 2007.]

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.]

Even measured by family size, median incomes still fell
By Jared Bernstein
[ POSTED TO VIEWPOINTS ON SEPTEMBER 6, 2007. ]

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. ]

Book would make bad policy: WVU professor comes up short on economics
By Ross Eisenbrey
[THIS OP-ED ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE CHARLESTON GAZETTE ON AUGUST 12, 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. ]

Immigration? A surging birth rate? Social Security will do fine
By Max Sawicky
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN PAJAMASMEDIA.COM BLOG ON JUNE 6, 2007. ]

The best theory money can buy
By Max Sawicky
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN TPM CAFE ON JUNE 3, 2007. ]

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

Straw men and low bars
By Jared Bernstein
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN TPM CAFE ON MAY 31, 2007. ]

The trouble with economics
By Max Sawicky
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN TPM CAFE ON MAY 31, 2007. ]

Bada bing! Equilibrium!
By Max Sawicky
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN TPM CAFE ON MAY 29, 2007. ]

Old Europe works
By Max Sawicky
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN PAJAMASMEDIA.COM BLOG ON MAY 24, 2007. ]

Time to trim the hedge
By Jared Bernstein
[ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN TPM CAFE ON MAY 23, 2007. ]

Gas prices: Too high or too low?
By Jared Bernstein
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN TPM CAFE ON MAY 20, 2007. ]

Hey Buddy, Can You Spare Some Change (Theory)?
By Jared Bernstein
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN TPM CAFE ON MAY 17, 2007. ]

The signs are pointing toward recession
By Jared Bernstein
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN TPM CAFE ON MAY 11, 2007. ]

Much ado about no change
By Jared Bernstein
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN TAPPED ON MAY 9, 2007. ]

France: One step forward, two steps back
By Max Sawicky
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN PAJAMASMEDIA.COM BLOG ON MAY 7, 2007. ]

The Post Gets It Wrong: Edwards' Poverty Policy is Just What?s Needed
By Jared Bernstein
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN TMP CAFE BLOG ON MAY 7, 2007. ]

Healthy? Don't Click!
By Max Sawicky
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN PAJAMASMEDIA.COM ON APRIL 25, 2007. ]

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

Getting Beyond Balanced Budget Mania and Addressing the Nation's Needs
B y Joseph Stiglitz
[ THIS WRITTEN TRANSCRIPT IS FROM "BEYOND BALANCED BUDGET MANIA," AN AGENDA FOR SHARED PROSPERITY EVENT HELD ON APRIL 12, 2007. ]

Clinton Saves But Nixon Invests: There are jobs only the government can do or fund. So why aren?t these getting done?
By Max Sawicky
[ THIS PIECE ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN PAJAMASMEDIA.COM ON APRIL 11, 2007. ]

The Right to Organize, Freedom and the Middle Class Squeeze
By Lawrence Mishel
[ THIS TESTIMONY WAS GIVEN ON MARCH 27, 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. ]

Dodging the Question
By Jeff Faux
[ ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN TPM CAFE BLOG ON MARCH 1, 2007. ]

Moving on to globalization?s central political question
By Jeff Faux
[ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN TPM CAFE BLOG ON FEBRUARY 28, 2007. ]

Politics, Policy, & Inequality
B y Paul Krugman
[ THIS WRITTEN TRANSCRIPT IS FROM "WORK THAT WORKS," AN AGENDA FOR SHARED PROSPERITY EVENT HELD ON FEBRUARY 22, 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. ]

Testimony before the Labor-HHS Education Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives
By Lawrence Mishel
[ THIS TESTIMONY WAS GIVEN ON FEBRUARY 15, 2007. ]

Monetary policy and the state of the economy
By Jared Bernstein
[ THIS TESTIMONY WAS GIVEN BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL SERVICES OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON FEBRUARY 16, 2007. ]

Economic Opportunity and Poverty in America
By Jared Bernstein
[ THIS TESTIMONY WAS GIVEN BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON INCOME SECURITY AND FAMILY SUPPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON FEBRUARY 13, 2007.]

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. ]

Globalization that works for working Americans
By Lawrence Mishel
[ THIS TESTIMONY WAS PRESENTED TO THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS ON JANUARY 30, 2007. ]

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

Tax Incentives for Businesses in Response to a Minimum Wage Increase
By Jared Bernstein
[ THIS TESTIMONY WAS GIVEN BEFORE THE U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE ON JANUARY 10, 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. ]