The Senate confirmation vote on Richard Cordray this week won’t have much to do with Richard Cordray.
May 21, 2013
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Amy Traub
According to The American Pediatric Association’s Task Force on Child Poverty, one in five children live below the federal poverty level, and in addition to being an economic strain on families it’s...
May 21, 2013
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Ilana Novick
A group of about 200 protestors stood outside of a Wendy’s restaurant near Union Square in New York City Saturday. They were demanding that the fast food company sign on to the Fair Food Program, an...
May 21, 2013
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Thomas Hedges
A new report from Demos, Registering Millions: The Success and Potential of the National Voter Registration Act at 20 highlights the impact the National Voter Registration Act has had over the...
May 20, 2013
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Mijin Cha
News outlets have been jubilantly reporting on the return of the stock market. In the last few months, the Dow Jones Industrial Average moved above its pre-recession levels, recovering from the...
May 20, 2013
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Matt Bruenig
Let us finally dispel the notion that increased numbers of African American voters, and more broadly all voters of color, headed to the polls in 2008 and 2012 solely because of Barack Obama.
May 17, 2013
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Michael Jackson
Almost exactly one year after the election of President François Hollande of the Socialist Party, France was revealed to have entered an economic recession. Instead of the predicted 0.1% GDP growth...
May 17, 2013
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Harry Merritt
The political history of race in America will record the Obama era as a breakthrough moment and a huge step forward. But any economic racial history will tell a nearly opposite story: Under the first...
May 17, 2013
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David Callahan
