NAFTA defenders say Mexico can’t lure high-wage jobs away, but they are already heading across the border — and the treaty will only make matters worse.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
The Coming Budget Battle
T he passage of President Clinton’s budget, marked by its one-half trillion in deficit reduction, is already restoring respect for the administration. Clinton will be tempted to move on to other issues. The urgent need to make good on health care reform and the generally sour nature of budget discussions will add to this impulse. […]
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Blood Knots
Our society and our laws have an outrageous biological bias. The author’s own odyssey suggests why adoption is a much-scorned but often superior alternative to reproductive heroics.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Money Talks, Reform Walks
Last time around, campaign finance reform failed because it lacked public financing. Twenty years later, Congress seems determined to make the same mistake.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Forecasting Follies
Using models to predict presidential elections can be fun. Too bad they don’t work.
Posted inWorking in America
Market, State, and Dystopia
A dystopia is a utopia in reverse. The post-1980 era is likely to be remembered as a free market dystopia–a headlong compulsion to throw away the mixed economy that was built on the ruins of depression and world war in favor of a marketized society. This compulsion has been ground into the lenses of the […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
Ending Welfare Reform as We Know It
Liberals who embrace welfare reform have conceded too much of the argument to the right. The main problem is not lazy, shiftless welfare mothers; it’s the collapse of the lower middle-class economy.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Imprisoners’ Dilemma
Low-level drug dealers will keep appearing, no matter how many jails we build.
