New York Times, January 29, 2004 The dismal fifth-place showing by Senator Joseph Lieberman in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday serves as both reminder and motivator to the other Democratic presidential candidates on what it will take to win in November. For so long now, everyone has assumed that recapturing the presidency depends on […]
Robert Reich
Robert B. Reich, a co-founder of The American Prospect, is a professor of public policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few, one of the books featured in the Prospect’s High School Essay Contest.
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Who Owns New Knowledge?
Marketplace, January 28, 2004 Connect the dots: The pharmaceutical industry cracks down on cheap imitation drug imports from Canada. The music industry sues Internet pirates who are downloading and reproducing new CDs. Movie studios litigates against knock-off videos. Software companies sue those who are pirating the software and selling it at a tiny fraction of […]
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Marriage Aid That Misses the Point
The Washington Post , January 22 2004 President Bush is planning a major initiative to promote marriage, particularly among low-income couples. Reportedly, the plan would provide at least $1.5 billion for training to help couples develop the kind of interpersonal skills to sustain “healthy marriages.” The initiative is a key part of his return to […]
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Democrats Target Deficit
USA Today, January 27, 2004 Even with some spending increases on education and health care, Democratic presidential candidates still can reduce the overall deficit by doing four things: Repealing President Bush’s giant tax cuts for the wealthy. Most of the $2 trillion in cuts go to rich Americans, who already are richer than ever before. […]
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O’Neill Has Done His Country a Favor
Newsday, January 16, 2004 Early this week, former Secretary of the Treasury Paul O’Neill sent tongues wagging and Republicans gasping when he claimed, in interviews and in a new book, that President George W. Bush intended to depose Saddam Hussein from the start – seven months before 9/11. Hence, the whole thing was trumped up, […]
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It’s Jobs, Stupid
San Jose Mercury News, January 18, 2004 “Jobless” recoveries aren’t supposed to go on this long. If the current economic recovery were like most previous ones, businesseswould have started hiring again when demand for their products picked up.That hasn’t happened, and more than two years after the economy startedturning out more goods and services, Americans […]
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Promoting Marriage
Marketplace January 21, 2004 One of the President’s new initiatives, announced last night in his State of the Union Address, is to spend over a billion dollars to promote marriage, especially among the poor. The money would be used, among other things, to provide counseling for couples in how to form stronger and more lasting […]
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The Last Word
It’s the most anemic jobs recovery on record. Productivity is soaring, but that’s mainly because fewer workers are doing more. At least 150,000 new jobs have to be created each month just to keep up with population growth. We haven’t come close. In December, the private sector produced a paltry 1,000. Not to be ghoulish […]
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Its Still Jobs, Stupid
Marketplace, January 14, 2004 Buried in last weeks disappointing employment report showing only 1,000jobs added to the economy in December wsa the news that American incomesgrew only 2 percent last year the smallest rise in more than a decade. Consumers are still buying, but the buying binge cant go on much longer.Household debt continues to […]
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Nice Work If You Can Get It
It’s hard to listen to a politician or pundit these days without hearing that America is “losing jobs” to poorer nations — manufacturing jobs to China, back-office work to India, just about every job to Latin America. This lament distracts our attention from the larger challenge of preparing more Americans for better jobs. Most job […]