Blog: Policy Shop

The looming government shutdown can be blamed in part on wealthy, influential donors.

Had we put a different set of institutions into place, we could have avoided the inequitable distribution of income that we have seen over the past thirty years.

Taxpayers pay $7 billion dollars a year to contracting executives making more than the Vice President of the United States. Wouldn’t that money be better served raising the wages of low-wage workers?

It would take only 1 percent of GDP, or a fourth of what we spend on defense every year, to lift every American below the poverty line up above it.

Outside money would have been even worse in this month’s elections.

There’s no evidence that disability insurance is being gamed by recipients.

The rich are richer than they’ve been since the 1920s and it’s only getting worse.

New data shows that on almost every measurement of well-being, low and middle-income families are worse off since the recession.