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Format: 05-25-2013
Format: 05-25-2013
College Funding In Context: Understanding The Difference In Higher Education Appropriations Across The States
Access to a post-secondary education is a vital aspect of the American dream, allowing for equality of opportunity and a stable pathway to the middle class for all who are willing to work for it...
December 20, 2012 | Report |
David Weerts
Thomas Sanford
Leah Reinert
Renewing Federal Unemployment Insurance Is Critical to Stem Rising Household Debt
Joblessness imposes steep costs on millions of unemployed workers and their families, requiring households to continue meeting basic expenses without their former income. The Great Recession and...
December 20, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Demos
NELP
New Credit Card Rules Protect Holiday Shoppers
This year’s holiday shopping season has started with a bang with 247 million shoppers (an all-time high and up from 226 million last year) spending an average of $423 each at local or online stores...
December 12, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Demos
Consumers Union
USPIRG
Why Is Washington Reducing the Deficit Instead of Creating Jobs?
This Demos Explainer explores the tension between political support for deficit reduction versus job creation and economic security policies. Most available research indicates a significant...
December 7, 2012 | Explainer |
J. Mijin Cha
Cracks In The Pipeline Part One: Restoring Efficiency To Wall Street And Value To Main Street
This is the first article in the “Financial Pipeline Series,” which will examine the underlying validity of the assertion that regulation of the financial markets reduces their efficiency. These...
December 5, 2012 | Report |
Wallace C. Turbeville
State Guaranteed Retirement Accounts
Our nation is on the brink of a retirement crisis that could have severe consequences for both future retirees and society as a whole. The steady erosion in the voluntary employer-sponsored...
November 28, 2012 | Report |
Teresa Ghilarducci
Robert Hiltonsmith
Lauren Schmitz
State Guaranteed Retirement Accounts: Summary
The share of workers without any retirement plan at work has risen dramatically over the past decade. The percentage of workers whose employer did not sponsor any type of retirement plan rose from 39...
November 28, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Teresa Ghilarducci
Robert Hiltonsmith
Economic Recovery and Social Investment: A Strategy to Create Good Jobs in the Service Sector
Today’s prolonged economic slump is fundamentally different from an ordinary recession. In the aftermath of a severe financial collapse, an economy is at risk of succumbing to a prolonged...
November 26, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Robert Kuttner
Retail's Hidden Potential: How Raising Wages Would Benefit Workers, the Industry and the Overall Economy
With more than 15 million workers in the sector, and leverage over workplace standards across the supply chain, retail wields enormous influence on Americans’ standard of living and the nation’s...
November 19, 2012 | Report |
Catherine Ruetschlin
Democracy at Stake: Political Equality in the Super PAC Era
David Gregory of NBC’s Meet the Press recently asked Newt Gingrich if he had any advice for a future presidential candidate. Without missing a beat, the former Speaker of the House answered in five...
November 19, 2012 | Policy Brief |
Adam Lioz
Liz Kennedy