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Ashlee Espinal / Reuters The Appealing Logic That Underlies Trump’s Economic Ideas
His policies may fail to deliver, but his rhetoric answers a question millions of Americans are asking about a globalized economy: What about me?
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Reuters It Wasn't Household Debt That Caused the Great Recession
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The Economics Behind Obama's Unapologetically Liberal Second-Term Agenda
A higher minimum wage and universal pre-K might sound like hackneyed liberal goals. But they're supported by broad economic research -- and common sense.
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Obama Puts the Middle Class First (Surprise: So Do Economists)
President Obama made the case for middle-out economics yesterday. Economists have been making it for years.
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The Fall of 'Trickle-Down' and the Rise of 'Middle-Out' Economics
Call it the Osawatomie Doctrine: President Obama's election victory one month ago today began with a speech he made one year ago today
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The Next Chapters in the Republican War on Math: Tax Cuts and Austerity
GOP partisans got their forecasts all wrong in the run-up to the election. Now they're showing their innumeracy in the policy arena, too.
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Low Skills Aren't Causing the Unemployment Crisis
Worker training is not the issue. A growing wage-productivity gap might be.
