https://www.epi.org Research and Ideas for Shared Prosperity Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:00:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://files.epi.org/uploads/cropped-EPI-favicon-32x32.webp https://www.epi.org 32 32 https://www.epi.org/blog/economic-links-2-20-13wh/ Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:50:49 +0000 http://www.epi.org/?post_type=blog&p=44252 Here’s a roundup of what we read today:

• The Wage Theft Epidemic (In These Times)
• A Chat With Mike The Mailman, Who Delivers the Mail (For Now) (The Billfold)
• Good News on Health Care Costs and the Budget (Economist’s View)
• Equipping the Fed for a Future Crisis (New York Times)
• New study badly undermines GOP position on sequester (Washington Post)
• Erskine Bowles: ‘Being far out front of the president on revenues wasn’t something I wanted to do again’ (Washington Post)

]]> https://www.epi.org/blog/economic-links-2-12-13/ Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:06:35 +0000 http://www.epi.org/?post_type=blog&p=43660 EPI experts read the following articles today:

• Can We Stabilize the Debt with Just $670 Billion in Deficit Reduction? (Next New Deal)
• Don’t focus on the deficit, Mr. President (Washington Post)
• Meat inspections could stall if federal spending cuts kick in (Des Moines Register)
• Increasing the Social Security Payroll Tax Base: Options and Effects on Tax Burdens (Congressional Research Service)
• No end to the GOP’s fiscal gimmickry (Washington Post)
• Quietly Killing a Consumer Watchdog (New York Times)
• In China, a Vast Chasm Between the Rich and the Rest (New York Times)

]]> https://www.epi.org/blog/economic-links-2-8-13/ Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:13:19 +0000 http://www.epi.org/?post_type=blog&p=43529 Today, EPI researchers read these articles:

• Out, damned spot: The ‘mindbugs’ of bias that sneak into our brains (Washington Post)
• Poll: Americans expect economic pain to continue (Washington Post)
• The 0.03% Solution to Washington’s Budget Problems (New York Times)
• Student loans: The next housing bubble (Salon)
• More Jobs, Higher Pay (New York Times)

]]> https://www.epi.org/blog/economic-links-1-31-13/ Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:59:58 +0000 http://www.epi.org/?post_type=blog&p=43240 Here are a few links that EPI’s research team clicked through today:

• “We all agree that spending cuts hurt the economy. Right? Right.” (The Plum Line)
• “Diagnosing the ‘GDP problem‘ (The Maddow Blog)
• “‘Pease’ Provision in Fiscal Cliff Deal Doesn’t Discourage Charitable Giving and Leaves Room for More Tax Expenditure Reform” (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)

]]> https://www.epi.org/blog/economic-links-1-29-13/ Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:43:16 +0000 http://www.epi.org/?post_type=blog&p=43011 Here are a few of the links that EPI’s research team clicked through during the last couple of days:

• “Payroll Tax Cuts May Boost the Economy More than You Think” (TaxVox)
• “U.S. Income Inequality Worse Than Many Latin American Countries” (Huffington Post)
• “Nicholas Stern: ‘I got it wrong on climate change – it’s far, far worse‘” (The Guardian)
• “Obama wants to tackle poverty and inequality. So why is his economic team so focused on the deficit?” (Washington Post)
• “Failures” (Paul Krugman)
• “Your Biggest Carbon Sin May Be Air Travel” (New York Times)
• “The Force: How much military is enough?” (New Yorker)

]]> https://www.epi.org/blog/economic-links-1-16-13/ Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:30:45 +0000 http://www.epi.org/?post_type=blog&p=42700 Here’s some of the thought-provoking content that EPI’s research team enjoyed reading today:

• “The increasingly isolated GOP” (The Plum Line)
• “Sequester And Shutdown Could Be More Likely Than A Fight Over The Debt Ceiling” (Capital Gains and Games)
• “Why Grandma Owes More on Her Credit Cards Than You do” (Demos)
• “Crumbling Infrastructure, Crumbling Democracy: Infrastructure Privatization Contracts and Their Effects on State and Local Governance” (Employment Policy Research Network)

]]> https://www.epi.org/blog/daily-economic-links-1-14-13/ Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:58:35 +0000 http://www.epi.org/?post_type=blog&p=42539 Here’s some interesting content that EPI’s research team recommends today:

• “Our Economic Pickle” (New York Times)
• “This Week in Poverty: Smiley Calls for White House Conference on US Poverty” (The Nation)
• “The Low Politics of Low Growth” (New York Times)
• “Much Ado about Nothing on Obama’s White Guy Appointees” (New America Media)
• “Misguided Social Security ‘Reform‘” (New York Times)

]]> https://www.epi.org/blog/daily-economic-links-1-10-13/ Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:59:35 +0000 http://www.epi.org/?post_type=blog&p=42255 Here’s some reading material for you from items EPI’s research team skimmed through today:

• “For Americans Under 50, Stark Findings on Health” (New York Times)
• “Public Goals, Private Interests in Debt Campaign” (New York Times)
• “The Debt Ceiling’s Escape Hatch” (New York Times)
• “Superfluous grades; StudentsFirst ranking considers performance last” (Center for Public Education)

]]> https://www.epi.org/blog/daily-economic-links-1-8-13/ Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:45:03 +0000 http://www.epi.org/?post_type=blog&p=41995 Here’s some good content that EPI’s research team browsed through today:

• “Canada’s guest worker program could become model for U.S. immigration changes” (Washington Post)
• “Huge Amounts Spent on Immigration, Study Finds” (New York Times)
• “Is the Trillion-Dollar Platinum Coin Clever or Insane?” (TaxVox)
• “More bogosity from Michelle Rhee” (Left Business Observer)
• “A White House Meeting With Low-Income Americans” (The Nation)

]]> https://www.epi.org/blog/daily-economic-links-1-4-2013/ Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:45:36 +0000 http://www.epi.org/?post_type=blog&p=41710 Here’s some of the interesting content that EPI’s research team browsed through today:

• “What does ‘not negotiating’ look like?” (The Plum Line)
• “How Washington Learned to Love Hostage-Taking” (The New Republic)
• “We don’t have a spending problem. We have an aging problem.” (Mother Jones)
• “Union-busting’s the secret filling inside Twinkie demise” (Orlando Sentinel)

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