It’s been perhaps a generation and a half since America experienced the pain of double-digit inflation. We don’t talk much about inflation these days,
Category: Economy
Barbarian at the gate: 400 prominent economists speak out against Trump
Less than a week before Americans go to the polls, four hundred of the country’s most prominent economists, including eight Nobel Laureates, have signed
Obama’s numbers
Every quarter, Factcheck.org likes to take a look at the numbers since Obama became President. They go deeper than just unemployment and study metrics
Teaching the reality of climate change, one classroom at a time
You wouldn’t think that it would be controversial for a journalism professor to come to high schools in the Midwest to discuss his reporting
The case for the Sanders revolution
Bernie Sanders is calling for a political revolution. Is there evidence to demonstrate that his “revolution” is needed? And why is the Sanders revolution
What Hillary Clinton might say to help herself
Hillary Clinton finds herself on the defensive, doing rope-a-dope, against certain charges from both the media and Bernie Sanders. Where Sanders is concerned, Clinton’s
Survey: Does our economic system favor the rich?
Conventional wisdom holds that Republicans are the party of the wealthy. But as Donald Trump’s campaign has clearly revealed, there are plenty of Republicans
Survey: Who blames the poor for being poor?
In our recent poll* on how Americans feel about important political issues, we asked the question, “In your opinion, what is the primary reason
Is the country headed in the right direction?
Do you think that the country is headed in the right direction? When asked that question in public-opinion polls, Invariably, a majority of respondents
Black power can only do so much to solve our racial problems
One of the interesting differences between the discord following the deaths of unarmed black men in Ferguson, MO and Baltimore is to what extent