Of three tax relief plans on the congressional table, only one significantly benefits middle-class families.
Economic Policy
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The Private Use of Public Life
Last December, a public interest group called the Center for Public Integrity published a unique analysis of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), titled “America’s Frontline Trade Officials.”* The center used a wide variety of government documents, newsletters, press clips, directories, and other sources to piece together the career paths of mid-level and […]
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Why Save the Banks? The Ambivalent Liberal’s Guide to Reform
Liberals may find it difficult to muster sympathy for bankers, but there are compelling reasons to strengthen banking. Reforms should help restore the banks’ profitability, while coupling new powers with stronger supervision to curb abuses.
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Can Business Beat Bureaucracy?
Attacks on bureaucracy have typically come from outside the corporate world; now they are coming from inside it. Are the business critics and reformers serious? Is American business really undergoing an internal transformation?
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The Real Welfare Problem
A new study documents that in major cities, a welfare check barely pays rent and utilities.
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An Outward-Looking Economic Nationalism
Yes to open trade; no to laissez-faire domestic policies.
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Affordable Housing: Lessons from Canada
How Canada manages to build scandal-free nonprofit housing
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Escaping the Fiscal Trap
As the 1990s begin, peace and prosperity are in abundance but so are poverty, drugs, poor schools, contaminated air and water, deteriorating roads, and a host of other problems. Although few believe that such problems can be solved with money alone, money is surely needed. Its lack has become an excuse for doing nothing or […]
