Progressives can use the budget crisis to create a fairer tax system.
David Callahan
David Callahan is a senior fellow at Demos and editor of PolicyShop, the Demos blog.
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Republicans Raise Taxes
GOP may finally have realized what must be done to reduce the deficit.
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Republicans Take a Mulligan
Gutting Medicaid won’t be any easier than slashing Medicare was.
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Why Cap Spending at 20 Percent of GDP?
Among the many problems with Paul Ryan’s draconian budget plan is the idea that federal spending can and should be capped at 20 percent of GDP. Let’s start with why the “should” part is problematic. Like the president’s budget commission, which called for capping spending at 21 percent of GDP, fiscal conservatives make the assumption […]
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The Real Liberal Elite
Now that more liberals are as rich as Republicans, do we risk forgetting the poor and working families?
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Saying Yes in Syracuse
A battered industrial city is leading the way in preparing all schoolchildren to succeed in college.
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False Choices on Poverty
From the 1970s through the mid-1990s, poverty policy was among the nastiest battlefields in the national culture war. Left and right slugged it out over why people were poor and how (or whether) to help them. Conservatives generally enjoyed the upper hand in these debates by focusing on individual-level causes of poverty, like family breakdown, […]
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Rocky Mountain Low
During his 12 years as a U.S. Congressman from Colorado, David Skaggs did his best to listen to all his constituents. He held open office hours during which anyone could just walk in. He hosted town meetings around his district, which covered the northwest suburbs of Denver. He set up at supermarkets, talking to whoever […]
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Still With Us
Social Security is our most successful antipoverty program, but large numbers of the elderly are still poor—and Social Security could be part of the solution.
