All work on this topic

• The Case for Raising the Minimum Wage: If we’re going to live in one unified America, we need an economy that works for all Americans

  May 15, 2013 | By David Cooper | Commentary

• Where’s the Change?

  April 11, 2013 | By Jeff Faux | Commentary

• How High Should Top Income Tax Rates Be? (Hint, Much Higher)

  April 11, 2013 | By Andrew Fieldhouse | Commentary

• How Good Jobs Policies Can Reduce the Black-White Wealth Divide

  March 21, 2013 | By Algernon Austin | Commentary

• U.S. Export-Import Bank: No Rewards for Shipping Jobs Overseas

  March 21, 2013 | By Owen E. Herrnstadt | Commentary

• $45+ billion for Apple shareholders, nothing yet for Apple workers

  March 20, 2013 | By Isaac Shapiro | Commentary

• Forget Spending Cuts, the U.S. Economy Really Needs a $2 Trillion Stimulus

  March 7, 2013 | By Andrew Fieldhouse | Commentary

• Apple’s self-reporting on suppliers’ labor practices shows violations remain common: Mixed results on labor and human rights, no overall progress in health and safety

  February 12, 2013 | By Scott Nova and Isaac Shapiro | Commentary

• America’s Genius Glut

  February 8, 2013 | By Ross Eisenbrey | Commentary

• Race and public housing: Revisiting the federal role

  December 17, 2012 | By Richard Rothstein | Commentary

• Restore full employment with a massive infrastructure program

  December 14, 2012 | By Andrew Fieldhouse | Commentary

• Paid sick leave a wise investment

  December 1, 2012 | By Ross Eisenbrey and Barbara Morgan | Commentary

• Don’t call it a fiscal cliff

  November 27, 2012 | By Andrew Fieldhouse | Commentary

• Election over: Time for progressive Dems to face the truth

  November 15, 2012 | By Jeff Faux | Commentary

• Very unwise for employers to tell employees how to vote

  October 25, 2012 | By Gordon Lafer | Commentary

• Massachusetts voters have the chance to vote on budget priorities

  October 24, 2012 | By Rebecca Thiess | Commentary

• Green-energy investments are necessary: Fossil fuel subsidies must go

  October 4, 2012 | By Ethan Pollack | Commentary

• Education profiteering: Wall Street’s next big thing?

  October 1, 2012 | By Jeff Faux | Commentary

• The compensation question: Are public school teachers underpaid?

  September 25, 2012 | By Lawrence Mishel | Commentary

• Avoiding a double-dip recession doesn’t require extending the Bush tax cuts

  September 19, 2012 | By Andrew Fieldhouse | Commentary

• Priority No. 1 for job creation: Aid to state and local governments

  September 13, 2012 | By Heidi Shierholz | Commentary

• Paul Ryan’s wink

  September 5, 2012 | By Jeff Faux | Commentary

• Infrastructure investments and the Latino jobs recovery

  July 24, 2012 | By Algernon Austin | Commentary

• Generate jobs now

  July 13, 2012 | By Lawrence Mishel | Commentary

• Economic research supports raising the minimum wage

  July 13, 2012 | By Ross Eisenbrey | Commentary

• Alabama’s anti-immigrant laws put more than 13,000 good export jobs at risk

  June 20, 2012 | By Robert E. Scott | Commentary

• Is teacher churn undermining real education reform in D.C.?

  June 18, 2012 | By Mark Simon | Commentary

• It’s OK to add to debt to grow jobs

  June 13, 2012 | By Josh Bivens | Commentary

• Regulatory freeze legislation ignores deadly consequences of existing regulatory delays

  June 11, 2012 | By Ross Eisenbrey | Commentary

• Alabama law becomes even more anti-immigrant while doing nothing to create jobs

  June 1, 2012 | By Daniel Costa | Commentary