March 5, 2013 COMMENTARY BY: Edward D. Kleinbard TOPICS: Workers & Economic Inequality, Creating Tax Fairness
Testimony of Century Fellow Edward D. Kleinbard before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget. Kleinbard offers suggestions for raising new revenue and making the tax code more progressive by replacing itemized deductions with a 15% tax credit.
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February 4, 2013 COMMENTARY BY: Charles R. Morris TOPICS: Workers & Economic Inequality, Rebuilding Our Infrastructure
A hot lobbying battle is shaping up over government permits for natural gas exports. The energy industry, oil- and shale-patch congressmen from both parties, and most economists are pressing for a policy of unrestricted exports. Now, a group of large industrial companies, led by Dow Chemical and Nucor, are attempting to stem this legislative momentum, and for good reason. If we put aside the environmental pros and cons of shale and focus strictly on the economics, progressives have a real stake in seeing that the industry doesn’t get its way. To understand why, here is some background.
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January 23, 2013 COMMENTARY BY: Moshe Marvit, Richard D. Kahlenberg TOPICS: Workers & Economic Inequality, Strengthening Unions
The Poverty & Race Research Action Council recently organized a forum around Richard D. Kahlenberg and Moshe Z. Marvit’s recent book, Why Labor Organizing Should Be a Civil Right. They asked several well-known figures from the labor and civil rights worlds, plus some academics and public interest group leaders, to provide their commentaries on the article below, a précis of the book. Excerpts of this interesting and useful conversation appear below, with a full version available in the Poverty & Race Research Action Council newsletter.
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January 18, 2013 COMMENTARY BY: Andrew Fieldhouse, Josh Bivens TOPICS: Workers & Economic Inequality
Frontline on PBS has an interesting piece on the GOP response to President Obama’s election in 2008, reporting that “After three hours of strategizing, they decided they needed to fight Obama on everything.”
Part of this “everything” was the efforts of the new administration to end the Great Recession and restore the economy back to full health. From the start, the GOP sought to block measures that a wide swath of economists agreed would provide help to boost the economy and bring down unemployment. This obstructionism has been a constant theme throughout the past four years, and it continues today.
READ MOREJanuary 12, 2013 COMMENTARY BY: Edward D. Kleinbard TOPICS: Workers & Economic Inequality, Additional Focus, General Policy
TCF Fellow Ed Kleinbard interviewed on The War Room with Jennifer Granholm, January 11, 2013.
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January 10, 2013 COMMENTARY BY: Edward D. Kleinbard TOPICS: Workers & Economic Inequality, Creating Tax Fairness
TCF Fellow Edward Kleinbard's op-ed published in the New York Times. Is there a solution that's better than minting the platinum coin? Ed Kleinbard says we could emulate California's registered warrants.
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