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Too much of the profession operates as the ideological department of predatory capitalism. Read more

Economic Policy

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By creating a full-employment economy, Biden enabled millions of low-wage workers to raise their pay. Read more

Economic Policy

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Two new studies—one on poverty wages, one on the declining share of revenues going to workers—are at once authoritative and mind-boggling. Read more

Economic Policy

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Today on TAP: As a share of the economy, profits hit an all-time high, and wages for the bottom 90 percent an all-time low. Read more

TAP

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Instead of helping workers, states steer pandemic emergency dollars to employers to help them pay down unemployment insurance debt. Read more

Economic Policy

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Today on TAP: The recovery is broadly on track but needs all the help it can get. Read more

TAP

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All that public investment rebuilds infrastructure, greens the economy, and supports caregiving—but mainly it creates at least four million good jobs. Read more

Building Back America

No, the culprit isn’t automation or skills or technology. The wage gap reflects a widening power gap. EPI’s latest report explains how it works. Read more

Economic Policy

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Today on TAP: A minimum-wage hike would boost Social Security tax receipts Read more

TAP

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Today on TAP: The Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act Read more

TAP

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Today on TAP: A new resource from EPI Read more

TAP

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From silencing their voices to depressing their incomes to endangering their lives, the president has consistently abused working Americans. Read more

Working in America

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Fifty years ago, the Republicans began laying claim to the white working class. Read more

Books

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The perennial and bogus claims of a skills gap are the Trump administration’s latest alibi for high unemployment. Read more

Economic Policy

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The CARES Act added $600 to weekly unemployment checks, but that goes away July 26, and Congress hasn’t moved to extend it. Read more

Coronavirus

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Five distinguished economists comment on the role of deficits and debts in preventing a depression. Read more

Economic Policy

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It is time to get serious about the economic policy response. Read more

Economic Policy

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Prospect editors discuss the new edited volume ‘We Own the Future.’ Read more

Books, Arts and Culture

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Forty-eight states saw real median household income growth decline in Trump’s first two years, some dramatically. Read more

Economic Policy