Progressives have offered two big ideas: enhanced unemployment, or government-funded payrolls. Which makes more sense? A Prospect debate.
Prospect Debates
Posted inCoronavirus
A Better Path Forward for Workers, Businesses, and the Economy
Government-funded worker paychecks are superior to pushing people to unemployment, writes the author of the Paycheck Recovery Act.
Posted inCoronavirus
A Way to Help Workers, Now and in the Future
During the pandemic, worker health and bargaining power are the top economic priorities. Boosting unemployment serves both goals.
Posted inWorking in America
The Future of Labor in Post-Pandemic America
An American Prospect symposium
Posted inDay One Agenda
The Future of the Regulatory State
A symposium on how to handle regulation in the post-Trump era
Posted inEconomic Policy
How the Corona Crisis Liberated Massive Public Spending: A Prospect Roundtable
Five distinguished economists comment on the role of deficits and debts in preventing a depression.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Future of Real Jobs: A Prospect Roundtable
How big is the non-standard workforce, and how do we measure it?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Prospect Debate: The Cost of Sanders’s Single-Payer Health Plan
An exchange including Gerald Friedman, Kenneth Thorpe, and Paul Starr over the costs, resulting taxes, and political implications of Sanders’s health plan
Posted inAmerica and the World
Prospect Debate: Should We Fight ISIS?
An exchange over whether the United States should try to press the fight against the Islamic State or abandon it entirely.