ECONOMIC PROSPECTS
Getting Real on Jobs and the Environment: Pipelines, Fracking, or Clean Energy? President Obama’s 2009 economic stimulus program—the American Recovery
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Author: Robert Pollin
ECONOMIC PROSPECTS: Fighting Seriously for Jobs and Social Security
As the severe unemployment crisis drags into its third year, proposals for solving the crisis are proliferating. Even more ideas
Read MoreState and Municipal Alternatives to Austerity
The pitched battle in Wisconsin last winter over the collective bargaining rights of public sector workers was only the most
Read MoreECONOMIC PROSPECTS: Field Notes on Wall Street Reform: The Battle Continues
President Barack Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in July 2010. Dodd-Frank is
Read MoreECONOMIC PROSPECTS: Can We Please Stop Blaming Immigrants?
Hostility in the United States toward immigrants has risen sharply in recent years. The strongest sign of this was the
Read MoreEconomic Prospects: Industrial Policy and the Revival of U.S. Manufacturing
At a forum last May in Detroit on the economic disaster now facing the United States auto companies, and the
Read MoreECONOMIC PROSPECTS: U.S. Trade Policy and the Jobs Crisis
Amid the ongoing employment crisis in the United States, there are growing demands across the U.S. political spectrum for the
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