The “de Blasio Boom”: Progressive Policies Work In New York City
The New York Times on Monday is the latest publication to find that New York City, under its unapologetically progressive mayor, “has rarely been in better financial shape.”
Category: Jobs and Growth
Democrats Should Say More About Double-Digit Black Unemployment in S.C.
Black unemployment continues to be a crisis that does not get the attention that it deserves. The candidate who best addresses this crisis would be the person most deserving to win the African-American vote.
Who Do You Want In The White House When The Next Recession Comes?
On its seventh anniversary, imagine the apocalyptic economic and political landscape that we would see without the Recovery Act to ignite a virtuous cycle of government investment that put people to work.
The Black-White Jobs Gap Is Especially Wide In Red States
A look at state unemployment statistics raises a question: Why is it that states that are under total Republican control have generally not shown any significant progress in narrowing the racial unemployment gap?
Jobs Report: Unfinished Business As Unemployment Falls Below 5 Percent
The biggest mistake policymakers in Washington – from the White House to the Congress to the Federal Reserve – could make right now is to assume that what we’re seeing right now resembles actual “full employment.”
A Big Win for Senate Cafeteria Workers
Thanks to the organizing efforts of Good Jobs Nation and other allies, Senate officials signed a new contract with the workers that brings their average pay closer to a living wage.
Let’s Make Sure Our Tax Dollars Buy Good Manufacturing Jobs
A new report presents a challenge to make better use of government procurement to boost U.S. manufacturing and to create good jobs. Economist Robert Pollin explains in this video.
We Must Keep Fighting For More and Better Infrastructure Investment
President Obama’s signature on a $305 billion surface transportation bill should not take this issue – and the broader infrastructure needs we have beyond transportation – off the 2016 election agenda.
Here’s One Way To Salvage Congress’ Poor Transportation Jobs Bill
The six-year surface transportation bill Congress is now hammering out contains both inadequate funding and bad policy. But there is an opportunity to boost a popular program that was a key tool in the 2009 stimulus.
Welfare Reform’s Broken Promises Exposed Again
One of the remarkably few efforts to examine how welfare recipients actually fare once they get back into the workforce uncovers the inconvenient truth behind right-wing rhetoric about aid to low-income people.