The Green Jobs Numbers
Green jobs may be hard to measure precisely, but they are surely growing and would benefit greatly from a bipartisan acknowledgment of that, an economist writes.
View ArticleThe Infrastructure Twofer: Jobs Now and Future Growth
Investment in infrastructure construction and repair is an efficient way to create jobs, an economist writes.
View ArticleBalancing the Budget, for Real
Most Republicans in Congress simply will not acknowledge that tax increases are necessary to balance the budget, an economist writes.
View ArticleThe Declining Role of Start-Ups
Business leaders and politicians often laud the United States for its entrepreneurial culture, but start-up activity has been falling since the 1980s, a new report shows.
View ArticleWould Romney Be Another Bill Clinton or Another George W. Bush?
Despite Republican dogma, the recent president with a legacy of fiscal conservatism is BIll Clinton, not George W. Bush, an economist writes.
View ArticleThe Clinton Tax Challenge for Republicans
Tax increases can reduce the deficit without cutting into economic growth, a fact that Republicans decline to acknowledge even about the Clinton years, an economist writes.
View ArticleIs Deficit Spending the Answer?
Different types of deficit spending affect the economy in different ways, some helping with job creation and others rewarding those who do not work, an economist writes.
View ArticleThe Flawed Case for Fiscal Stimulus
The safety-net programs in the federal stimulus that helped fight the recession came at a cost of weakening incentives to work or hire, an economist writes.
View ArticleRepublicans Censor What They Can’t Refute
By forcing the Congressional Research Service to withdraw a report that found no link between tax cuts on the wealthy and economic growth, Republicans put ideology ahead of economic reality, an...
View ArticleWhat Job Openings Tell Us
A drop in the supply of workers, as much as a drop in demand, can explain the high ratio of unemployed to available jobs, an economist writes.
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