As levels of student debt continue to rise, regulators have an opportunity to reform higher education.
Poverty & Wealth
Posted inWorking in America
Bottom Up
Think the minimum wage covers everything but restaurant workers? Think again.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Legislative Legerdemain
Right-wingers are just as fond of attaching demands to must-pass legislation across the pond.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
From K Street to Main Street
This week featured a vision of two different paths Occupy Wall Street could take after being evicted from public parks across the country. In Washington, D.C., activists from labor, Occupy, and elsewhere held a “99% in DC” event that began with a day of visits to congressional offices to demand jobs legislation. Occupiers then followed […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
Britain Hesitates
David Cameron’s veto of an EU integration plan reveals England’s deep skepticism about the union.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Elizabeth Warren: Bailout Queen
Karl Rove’s latest ad has to set an all-time record for hypocrisy and factual inversion. The ad actually manages to blame Elizabeth Warren for the bank bailouts. As anyone who hasn’t spent the past three years in a cave must know, Warren has been the nation’s single most effective, relentless, and brave critic of the […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Wrong Fix
The deal to save the eurozone will hurt countries that can afford it the least.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Made in America — Again
Leaders discuss returning manufacturing to the U.S. in a Prospect roundtable.
Posted inEconomic Policy
GOP vs. Job Creators
Despite their rhetoric about small businesses, Republicans side with millionaires when it comes down to it.