The World Bank (WB), an international financial institution with a questionable track-record of interventions in the developing world, is currently thinking about the future
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Mental Health Days were not just invented
NBC Nightly News concludes most of its broadcasts with a segment that it calls “Inspiring America.” Because so much “bad news” is reported, particularly
What’s the Matter with Janesville?
Each Thursday on the PBS NewsHour, plain-speaking economist Paul Salmon explains difficult issues in his “Making Sen$e” segment. This past week he focused on
How corporate greed got my daughter fired
My 49-year-old daughter has limited abilities, but has worked since finishing high school and has lived independently all these years. In fact, she just
What Donald Trump doesn’t know about the Mexican farm workers who make his 5-star dinner possible
Donald Trump’s sneers about Latino rapists, criminals, and druggies coming-to-harm-your-property-and-your-kids have real-life consequences. His all-too-familiar ethnic scapegoating intentionally obscures the truth about a community
Some wins for Obama are better than others
June 2015 was a remarkable month for President Obama. In particular. the last week of the month was a real “winner” for the president.
Trying to look sympathetically at Trans-Pacific Partnership
In the 19th Century, the Victorian historian Thomas Carlyle coined the phrase “dismal science” for the field of economics. With the help of new
Wisconsin shows how difficult it is to hold on to progressive gains
Robert Lafollette, Jr. and Joseph McCarthy. Russ Feingold and Scott Walker. How could one state–Wisconsin–elect politicians with such divergent views? No state east of
A closer look at the 5.9% unemployment rate
If you dig around the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website, you will learn that 20 percent of American families do not have a single person employed and 41 percent of all civilian, working-age Americans are without a job.
Why is the stock market soaring when the real economy is on its knees?
The short answer is the Fed has been propping up the stock market. And, high stock prices are not always tethered to traditional methods of stock