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Why Hollywood's Creative Class Is Going Broke. And Why It Matters
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June 4, 2014
David Callahan
Here's a Conservative With Some Good Ideas for Getting People Back to Work
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May 30, 2014
David Callahan
How Did Midterms Become So Bad for U.S. Democracy?
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May 29, 2014
David Callahan
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Regulation & Financial Reform
Revenue, Taxes and Budget
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Stacked Deck: How the Dominance of Politics by the Affluent & Business Undermines Economic Mobility in America
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February 13, 2013
David Callahan
J. Mijin Cha
The Year In Review: What 2011 Meant For The 99%
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December 22, 2011
Tamara Draut
David Callahan
Environmental Standards and the GSP: A Proposal
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November 17, 2009
David Callahan
Cristina Vasile
An Analysis of Voter Fraud in The United States: Adapted from the 2003 Report, Securing The Vote
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December 19, 2007
David Callahan
Millions to the Middle: Three Strategies to Expand the Middle Class
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August 30, 2004
David Callahan
Tamara Draut
Javier Silva
Securing the Vote: An Analysis of Election Fraud
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April 14, 2003
David Callahan
Lori Minnite
Expanding the Vote: The Practice and Promise of Election Day Registration
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January 1, 2002
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Policy Briefs
Level The Playing Field For American Manufacturing
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September 4, 2012
Amy Traub
Tamara Draut
David Callahan
Raise Work Standards
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September 4, 2012
Amy Traub
Tamara Draut
David Callahan
A Homeowners' Loan Corporation For The 21st Century
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September 4, 2012
Amy Traub
Tamara Draut
David Callahan
Early Care And Education Plan
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September 4, 2012
Amy Traub
Tamara Draut
David Callahan
The Contract For College
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September 4, 2012
Amy Traub
Tamara Draut
David Callahan
The Career Opportunity Plan
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September 4, 2012
Amy Traub
Tamara Draut
David Callahan
American Retirement Accounts
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September 4, 2012
Amy Traub
Tamara Draut
David Callahan
Fairness In Bankruptcy Act
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September 4, 2012
Amy Traub
Tamara Draut
David Callahan
Public Investment Plan
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September 4, 2012
Amy Traub
Tamara Draut
David Callahan
Public Jobs For Economic Recovery
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September 4, 2012
Amy Traub
Tamara Draut
David Callahan
Federal Reserve Mandate For Full Employment
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September 4, 2012
Amy Traub
Tamara Draut
David Callahan
Strengthen The Right Of Working People To Organize
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September 4, 2012
Amy Traub
Tamara Draut
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Borrower Security Act
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September 4, 2012
Amy Traub
Tamara Draut
David Callahan
The American Family Trust
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September 4, 2012
Amy Traub
Tamara Draut
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Millions to the Middle
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August 10, 2012
David Callahan
Tamara Draut
Public Offering, Private Wealth
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May 17, 2012
David Callahan
Jack Temple
Why Occupy Wall Street?
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May 1, 2012
David Callahan
Heather C. McGhee
The Budget for All
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March 29, 2012
David Callahan
Jack Temple
Help Wanted: America Needs A Better Jobs Plan
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September 9, 2011
David Callahan
Tamara Draut
Emission Reduction Incentive: A Proposal
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June 22, 2010
David Callahan
Cristina Vasile
Environmental Standards and the GSP: A Policy Brief
Policy Briefs
November 17, 2009
David Callahan
Cristina Vasile
A Voice for Workers: Expanding U.S. Capacity to Promote International Labor Standards and Enforce Trade Agreements
Policy Briefs
July 17, 2009
David Callahan
Cristina Vasile
Hidden Casualties: Trade, Employment Loss & Women Workers
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July 17, 2009
David Callahan
Ramya M. Vijaya
Home Insecurity: How Widespread Appraisal Fraud Puts Homeowners At Risk
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March 15, 2005
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Why Hollywood's Creative Class Is Going Broke. And Why It Matters
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June 4, 2014
David Callahan
Here's a Conservative With Some Good Ideas for Getting People Back to Work
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May 30, 2014
David Callahan
How Did Midterms Become So Bad for U.S. Democracy?
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May 29, 2014
David Callahan
A Global Role At What Price?
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May 28, 2014
David Callahan
What's the Best Way to Blunt Right-Wing Populism?
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May 27, 2014
David Callahan
The Smartest Conservatives in the Room? Not Quite
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May 22, 2014
David Callahan
What's the Difference Between Universities and Corporations? It's Getting Hard to Say
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May 20, 2014
David Callahan
Why Is Walmart Standing Down in the Minimum Wage Fight?
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May 19, 2014
David Callahan
Will Today Mark a Turning Point in the Capital vs. Labor Story?
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May 15, 2014
David Callahan
Why This Oil Billionaire Wants to Pay Higher Taxes
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May 14, 2014
David Callahan
Who's Tackling One of the Knottiest Challenges Facing U.S. Workers?
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May 13, 2014
David Callahan
When It's Freedom vs. Fairness, Which Wins in America?
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May 12, 2014
David Callahan
How an Egregious Tax Loophole Could Save This Billionaire $700 Million Next April
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May 9, 2014
David Callahan
Coming Next Thursday: A New Global Labor Movement?
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May 8, 2014
David Callahan
Who Is Really Able to Attack Inequality?
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May 7, 2014
David Callahan
What Would Happen to Companies Like Target If They Paid $15 an Hour?
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May 6, 2014
David Callahan
Forget Everything You Know About U.S. Politics. It's All Going to be Different
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May 5, 2014
David Callahan
Segregation May be the Hardest Part of Inequality To Solve
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May 2, 2014
David Callahan
How Americans Are Getting Whacked by the Big Ticket Expenses
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May 1, 2014
David Callahan
There Are Lots of Twisted and Extreme Rich Guys Where Donald Sterling Came From
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April 29, 2014
David Callahan
Why Globalization Doesn't Matter So Much Anymore in the Inequality Debate
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April 28, 2014
David Callahan
Do We Really Want to Raise Taxes on Capital?
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April 25, 2014
David Callahan
When So Many Workers Hate Their Jobs, We're All Miserable
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April 24, 2014
David Callahan
Why Don't Corporations Care More About Their Image on Economic Fairness?
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April 23, 2014
David Callahan
Is Reducing Inequality a Lost Cause?
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April 18, 2014
David Callahan
Good Question: If Cities Are Where the Action Is, Why Subsidize the 'Burbs?
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April 17, 2014
David Callahan
When Ordinary People Speak, Do the Powerful Ever Listen?
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April 16, 2014
David Callahan
Meet Two Small Tax Reforms That Could Yield Big Money
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April 15, 2014
David Callahan
How Unequal Justice Makes Us Super Cynical
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April 14, 2014
David Callahan
The Cities With Opportunity Are Way Too Expensive. What Can We Do About That?
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April 11, 2014
David Callahan
Downsize the Doctors
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April 10, 2014
David Callahan
Will America's Have Nots Soon Lack Safe Water?
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April 9, 2014
David Callahan
Why Home Prices Are Still So High (And Will Stay High)
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April 8, 2014
David Callahan
Hey, Charles Koch: Americans Actually Have More Freedom Today Than They Used To
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April 4, 2014
David Callahan
Right, We Almost Forgot: Corporations Also Kill People
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April 2, 2014
David Callahan
Bigger Homes for Wealthy People, Thanks to the Home Mortgage Tax Break
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April 1, 2014
David Callahan
Affluent Voters and the Democratic Conundrum
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March 31, 2014
David Callahan
If We Don't Punish Past Financial Crimes, Future Ones Are Inevitable
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March 28, 2014
David Callahan
Politics by Subpoena: How Darrell Issa Abuses His Power, and Why
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March 27, 2014
David Callahan
Who Are the Worst Bosses in America? Ask Your Nanny
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March 26, 2014
David Callahan
Heritage Study Ranks Left-Wing Paradise Among Most "Free" Countries in the World
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March 25, 2014
David Callahan
How Have Minimum Wage Hikes Affected Job Growth in States and Cities?
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March 24, 2014
David Callahan
How the Deficit Hawks Won the Budget Wars
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March 21, 2014
David Callahan
It’s Inequality That Fuels Envy, Not Populism
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March 20, 2014
David Callahan
Why Not Peg EITC Benefits to the Local Cost of Living?
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March 19, 2014
David Callahan
The Big Long-Term Budget Squeeze. And What To Do About It
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March 17, 2014
David Callahan
Yes, Government Can Take on Cheating Employers: By Going After Their Brand
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March 14, 2014
David Callahan
Think the Left is Dead? Read This Budget Plan
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March 12, 2014
David Callahan
Meet the Scholar With a New Explanation on Why Work Became Bad for So Many
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March 11, 2014
David Callahan
Meet a No-Brainer Bill That an Unpopular Congress Could Pass Tomorrow
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March 10, 2014
David Callahan
Here's One Group of Workers Who Never Recovered from the Crash
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March 7, 2014
David Callahan
Obama's Budget Offers a Bleak and Conservative Vision for the Future
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March 6, 2014
David Callahan
If We Can Condemn Selfish Behavior in the Economic Sphere, Why Not in the Social Sphere?
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March 5, 2014
David Callahan
Remembering Richard Boone, the Funder Who Started the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
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March 3, 2014
David Callahan
It's True: Health Reform is Disruptive. Which is Actually the Point
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February 28, 2014
David Callahan
Strange Bedfellows Indeed: The Powerful Alliance Between Liberals and Libertarians
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February 27, 2014
David Callahan
Why Is Washington So Passive in the Face of Criminal Conspiracies by International Banks?
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February 26, 2014
David Callahan
Is Tax Reform Even Possible in an Era of Big Money?
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February 25, 2014
David Callahan
Here's a Yummy Idea: Suing Big Food to Pay Obesity Costs
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February 24, 2014
David Callahan
No, Arthur Brooks Is Not Advancing a Bold New Conservative Vision
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February 21, 2014
David Callahan
Why Aren't People Freaking Out About the Comcast-Time Warner Merger?
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February 20, 2014
David Callahan
Who's the Best President Since FDR?
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February 17, 2014
David Callahan
The Muddled Message of Centrist Deficit Hawks
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February 14, 2014
David Callahan
Hey, de Blasio: How About Pushing Non-Citizen Voting Rights?
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February 13, 2014
David Callahan
Corporatism vs. Conservatism in Tennessee
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February 12, 2014
David Callahan
Inequality Poisons the Creative Sector, Too
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February 11, 2014
David Callahan
Come on, Washington, Tackle Tax Reform
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February 10, 2014
David Callahan
Why Should Twitter Need to Keep Growing?
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February 7, 2014
David Callahan
The Fall of K-12 and the Rise of P-16
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February 6, 2014
David Callahan
It's Just Wrong That Nearly All Americans See Themselves as Middle Class. Or Ever Have
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February 5, 2014
David Callahan
This May Be the Most Alarming Research Yet About Inequality
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February 3, 2014
David Callahan
The Biggest Problem With Capitalism That Nobody Talks About
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January 31, 2014
David Callahan
Here's What Any White House Retirement Plan Needs to Do
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January 29, 2014
David Callahan
Cato's Silly Premature Obituary for Obamacare
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January 28, 2014
David Callahan
How Much Inequality Is Too Much?
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January 27, 2014
David Callahan
Is the American Dream Ideology Losing Sway?
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January 24, 2014
David Callahan
Big Money Doesn't Just Corrupt Politics. It Also Corrupts People
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January 23, 2014
David Callahan
Here Are the Three Biggest Things We Don't Know About the Labor Market
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January 22, 2014
David Callahan
Why the Rich Don't Think They're Rich. And Why It Matters
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January 21, 2014
David Callahan
Business Is Hyper-Organized. Shouldn't Workers Be, Too?
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January 17, 2014
David Callahan
Why Doesn't Michael Tanner Understand Structural Inequality?
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January 16, 2014
David Callahan
Is Raising the Minimum Wage a Small and Stale Idea?
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January 15, 2014
David Callahan
Whose Side Are Progressives on: The Poor or the Upper Middle Class?
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January 14, 2014
David Callahan
Media is Another Form of Money in Politics. How Do We Control This Kind of Spending?
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January 13, 2014
David Callahan
Just Face It: Equality of Opportunity is a Cruel, Empty Joke in Our Low-Wage Economy
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January 10, 2014
David Callahan
Pinprick: Six Reasons Why Civil Fines Don't Deter Corporate Wrongdoers
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January 9, 2014
David Callahan
Do Conservatives Like Rubio Know How to Create "Better" Jobs?
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January 8, 2014
David Callahan
Can Trickle-Down Gentrification Actually Work?
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January 7, 2014
David Callahan
What's the Best Way to Fight Poverty?
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January 6, 2014
David Callahan
The Nanny State We Need
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January 3, 2014
David Callahan
Here's How Obamacare Makes Americans More Free
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January 2, 2014
David Callahan
Is the Creative Class an Enemy of Urban Equity?
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December 30, 2013
David Callahan
The Killer "Moral Values" Issue in 2014? Work
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December 30, 2013
David Callahan
As Evangelicalism Declines, Is the GOP Toast?
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December 26, 2013
David Callahan
Are Progressives Okay With Big Government?
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December 24, 2013
David Callahan
Yet More Evidence That Americans Aren't a Bunch of Social Darwinists
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December 23, 2013
David Callahan
The Silly False Debate Between Individual Responsibility and Mutual Obligation
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December 20, 2013
David Callahan
Yes, Making the Rich Poorer Would Make Everyone Else Richer
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December 19, 2013
David Callahan
Does the Right Have Any Real Solutions to Inequality?
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December 18, 2013
David Callahan
The Human Price of Innovation at Amazon
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December 17, 2013
David Callahan
Would More Extreme Capitalism Make Us Happier?
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December 16, 2013
David Callahan
What Do We Want in 2017?
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December 13, 2013
David Callahan
What Will It Really Take to Close the Skills Gap?
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December 12, 2013
David Callahan
The Biggest Budget Item You Never Think About Just Got Whacked
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December 11, 2013
David Callahan
The Return of the Boarder: What Airbnb Tells Us About the Economy
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December 10, 2013
David Callahan
Will Obamacare Boost Economic Growth?
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December 10, 2013
David Callahan
Five Reasons Every Deficit Hawk Should Worry About Inequality
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December 9, 2013
David Callahan
Hooray! More Lousy Jobs Have Been Created
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December 6, 2013
David Callahan
What Does the Public Want to Do About Inequality?
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December 5, 2013
David Callahan
Will More Education Really Make Us More Equal?
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December 5, 2013
David Callahan
Selling Government, One Benefit At a Time
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December 4, 2013
David Callahan
Third Way's Astonishingly Weak Argument Against Progressive Populism
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December 3, 2013
David Callahan
Would a $12 Minimum Wage in California Hurt Poor People?
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December 3, 2013
David Callahan
Can Progressivism Offer a Politics of "Meaning?"
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December 2, 2013
David Callahan
No, Full Employment is Not a Pipe Dream
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December 2, 2013
David Callahan
How Could Cato Think That Government Poses a Bigger Threat to Privacy Than Corporations?
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November 27, 2013
David Callahan
Not So Fast, Sosnik: Why Today's Populism May Be Gone Tomorrow
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November 26, 2013
David Callahan
Let Them Eat Credit: Why Raiding Home Equity Remains So Tempting
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November 26, 2013
David Callahan
The Surprising Support of Small Business Owners for Hiking the Minimum Wage
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November 25, 2013
David Callahan
Why Nearly Everyone With Retirement Investments Are Waging "Class War." And How To Change That
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November 25, 2013
David Callahan
Why Boomers are Bailing on the 'Burbs
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November 22, 2013
David Callahan
Four More Reasons to Hate the Suburbs
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November 22, 2013
David Callahan
Filibuster or Not, Divided Government Will Remain the Norm
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November 21, 2013
David Callahan
Here's How Tax Policy Could Downsize the Suburbs
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November 21, 2013
David Callahan
Is Nimble Government Even Possible?
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November 20, 2013
David Callahan
Why Americans Could Handle Higher Prices for Consumer Goods
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November 20, 2013
David Callahan
Thank Big Government for the Toilet
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November 19, 2013
David Callahan
Why Big Fines Don't Scare Wall Street's Cowboys
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November 19, 2013
David Callahan
One of the Most Clever Features of Dodd-Frank is Really Working
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November 18, 2013
David Callahan
The Biggest Victory for Workers This Year Happened Yesterday
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November 15, 2013
David Callahan
The Single Best Argument Against Inequality
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November 15, 2013
David Callahan
Who Will Fix Government?
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November 14, 2013
David Callahan
Why Sequestration Is An Even Bigger Disaster Than You Think
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November 14, 2013
David Callahan
Why Getting Money Out of Politics is a Winning Bipartisan Issue
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November 13, 2013
David Callahan
America's Most Educated Voters Play a Huge Role in Elections
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November 12, 2013
David Callahan
Can Big Government Progressives Seize the Populist Mantle?
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November 12, 2013
David Callahan
Extreme Weather Events May Shape the 21st Century, as Wars Shaped the Last Century
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November 11, 2013
David Callahan
How the GI Bill Left Out African Americans
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November 11, 2013
David Callahan
Extreme Weather Events May Shape the 21st Century, as Wars Shaped the Last Century
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November 11, 2013
David Callahan
Twitter Wealth in a Walmart Economy
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November 8, 2013
David Callahan
Why Educated Elites Don't Get the Low-Wage Economy
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November 8, 2013
David Callahan
How New Wedge Issues Are Dividing the Right
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November 7, 2013
David Callahan
De Blasio's Opportunity: A Local Attack on Inequality
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November 6, 2013
David Callahan
Why Big Pharma Won't Stop Breaking the Law
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November 5, 2013
David Callahan
The Single Best Way To Help Struggling Young Americans
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November 4, 2013
David Callahan
Paying for Aging Boomers: How Much Is Too Much?
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November 4, 2013
David Callahan
Coming Tomorrow: Another State Minimum Wage Hike
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November 4, 2013
David Callahan
Whose Taxes Have Fallen the Most Since 1980?
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November 1, 2013
David Callahan
Common Sense, Moral Values, and Pew's Failure to Lead on Payday Loans
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November 1, 2013
David Callahan
Pew's Appalling Thumbs Up for Payday Loans With 129% Annual Interest
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October 31, 2013
David Callahan
Why the Biggest Problem in America is Both Underreported and Ignored
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October 30, 2013
David Callahan
The Most Important Labor Strike in the World Is Happening Right Now
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October 29, 2013
David Callahan
Yes, Social Security Affects Long-term Deficits. And Here's How to Change That
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October 28, 2013
David Callahan
Want to Defend Government? Make It Work Better
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October 25, 2013
David Callahan
CAP at Ten, and the Enduring Think Tank Gap
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October 25, 2013
David Callahan
How the Baby Boomers Stole Trillions of Dollars from the Millennials
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October 24, 2013
David Callahan
HealthCare.gov in Context: Big IT Projects Fail All the Time in the Private Sector
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October 23, 2013
David Callahan
The End of "Them?" Strong Public Support for Closing the Racial Equity Gap
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October 22, 2013
David Callahan
Why Only Progressives Can Tackle America's Fiscal Challenges
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October 22, 2013
David Callahan
Big Conservative Donors Take Aim at Lawmakers Who Compromised
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October 18, 2013
David Callahan
On to Immigration, Another Wedge to Divide the Right
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October 17, 2013
David Callahan
Next Job for Obama: Block That Budget Deal
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October 17, 2013
David Callahan
Income Redistribution That Both Parties Love
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October 16, 2013
David Callahan
What Will a Slow Growth Future Mean for Progressive Politics?
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October 15, 2013
David Callahan
Coming Soon: A Dead End Tax Debate. Or Maybe Not.
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October 15, 2013
David Callahan
China Capitalizes on Washington's Crisis
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October 14, 2013
David Callahan
Doctors and Dentists Get in on Usurious Lending
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October 14, 2013
David Callahan
Kochs to Kooks: Lay Off Obamacare!
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October 11, 2013
David Callahan
Big Business Finally Realizes It Helped Create a Right-Wing Monster
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October 10, 2013
David Callahan
How Healthcare Lobbyists Are Fanning Washington's Crisis
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October 10, 2013
David Callahan
CATO's Strangely Narrow View of Liberty Doesn't Include Staying Alive
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October 9, 2013
David Callahan
Blame Low Taxes for the Debt Ceiling Showdown
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October 8, 2013
David Callahan
China Is Biggest Winner in Beltway Hostage Crisis
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October 8, 2013
David Callahan
How a Default Would Send the Deficit Sky High
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October 7, 2013
David Callahan
The Big Donors Behind the Shutdown
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October 7, 2013
David Callahan
I Miss My Government! How Libertarians Lose from the Shutdown
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October 1, 2013
David Callahan
How Low Can Congress's Approval Rating Go? And Does It Matter?
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October 1, 2013
David Callahan
Hey, Wall Street: The Club for Growth Is Not Your Friend
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September 30, 2013
David Callahan
How Regulation Can Save Consumers Big Money
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September 30, 2013
David Callahan
The Single Easiest Way Congress Can Reduce Inequality
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September 25, 2013
David Callahan
The Atlantic's Weird Nostalgia for Heritage's Early Years
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September 25, 2013
David Callahan
The Obamacare Obsession Explained!
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September 24, 2013
David Callahan
De Blasio's Challenge on Public Pensions
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September 24, 2013
David Callahan
Why Aren't Fiscal Hawks Talking About How Hurting the U.S. Credit Rating Would Boost Deficits?
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September 23, 2013
David Callahan
Why Aren't Fiscal Hawks Talking About the Threat to the U.S. Credit Rating?
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September 23, 2013
David Callahan
How Big Campaign Donors Like Peter Thiel Are Pushing for a Government Shutdown
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September 23, 2013
David Callahan
Can We Really Afford to Pay Home Aides More as Boomers Retire?
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September 18, 2013
David Callahan
Obama Just Changed the Most Racist Law in America
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September 18, 2013
David Callahan
A New Social Contract on Wages and Benefits
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September 16, 2013
David Callahan
Seven Ways Occupy Changed America—and Is Still Changing It
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September 16, 2013
David Callahan
Six Reasons Another Financial Crisis Is Inevitable
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September 15, 2013
David Callahan
Wallace C. Turbeville
What If the Tea Party Had Been Around During the Financial Crisis?
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September 13, 2013
David Callahan
Those "Doomed" Low-Wage Strikers Just Helped Boost the Minimum Wage in California
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September 13, 2013
David Callahan
How the CFPB is Spurring Banks to Self-Regulate
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September 12, 2013
David Callahan
Will You Work Until You Die, Grandpa?
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September 11, 2013
David Callahan
Inequality's Threat to Our Fiscal Future
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September 10, 2013
David Callahan
Shared Fate: Why White Boomers and Kids of Color Depend on Each Other
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September 10, 2013
David Callahan
Can a Progressive Run New York City?
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September 9, 2013
David Callahan
Giving Up on Busing, and Integrated Schools
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September 9, 2013
David Callahan
The Global Context of Walmart's Illegal Union Busting Tactics
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September 6, 2013
David Callahan
The Most Bogus Unemployment Number: Discouraged Workers
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September 6, 2013
David Callahan
Just Four Members of the Walton Family Have a Higher Net Worth Than All Walmart's Workers Combined
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September 5, 2013
David Callahan
Can Labor Beat Capital? Ask Hosni Mubarak
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September 4, 2013
David Callahan
Actually Enforcing the Law Would Reduce Segregation
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August 30, 2013
David Callahan
The Challenge of Segregation
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August 29, 2013
David Callahan
Segregation Forever?
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August 28, 2013
David Callahan
Retail's Weak Case for Business as Usual
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August 28, 2013
David Callahan
Does Charles Lane Know Where Kids Go to College?
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August 27, 2013
David Callahan
Cato's Dated Welfare vs. Work Framework
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August 26, 2013
David Callahan
The Union Solution to Market Failure
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August 26, 2013
David Callahan
The Age of Flat Wages
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August 23, 2013
David Callahan
The Progressive Dilemma on Syria
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August 23, 2013
David Callahan
The Cost Containment President
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August 22, 2013
David Callahan
What If a Tight Labor Market Never Returns?
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August 22, 2013
David Callahan
Indispensable Low-Wage Workers
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August 21, 2013
David Callahan
Low-Wage Work and the Coming Retirement Crisis
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August 20, 2013
David Callahan
How to Talk About Low-Wage Work
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August 19, 2013
David Callahan
Were the Dictators Right?
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August 16, 2013
David Callahan
How Much Can We Oppose Unpaid Internships If We Love Volunteers?
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August 16, 2013
David Callahan
Roll Your Own: The Entrepreneurial Alternative to College
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August 15, 2013
David Callahan
Big Crimes, Small Fish
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August 15, 2013
David Callahan
Skip College and Get Rich?
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August 14, 2013
David Callahan
Bad Government and the Challenge of Ending the War on Drugs
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August 13, 2013
David Callahan
A Second Chance Agenda for Former Prisoners
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August 12, 2013
David Callahan
Time to Tax Services, Not Just Sales
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August 9, 2013
David Callahan
Profitable Fast Food Restaurants Already Do Pay $15 an Hour in Other Countries
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August 8, 2013
David Callahan
Big Business vs. the GOP
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August 7, 2013
David Callahan
Work and Be Poor. It's for Your Own Good
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August 6, 2013
David Callahan
The Low-Wage Jobs Boom Keeps Going
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August 5, 2013
David Callahan
All Rise: The Economic Case for Racial Equity
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August 2, 2013
David Callahan
Lost Wealth: Why the Real Estate Industry Should Hate Student Debt
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August 1, 2013
David Callahan
Inequality and the Bully Pulpit
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July 30, 2013
David Callahan
Falling from the Upper Middle Class: New Data on Downward Mobility
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July 26, 2013
David Callahan
Can U.S. Workers Compete? Yes, if a Global Middle Class Rises
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July 25, 2013
David Callahan
Obama: Successful Yet Unpopular. Why?
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July 24, 2013
David Callahan
Growth or Redistribution to Help the Middle Class?
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July 23, 2013
David Callahan
Integration is a Key to Upward Mobility
Blog
July 22, 2013
David Callahan
Obama Talks Race, Finally
Blog
July 19, 2013
David Callahan
Closing Offshore Tax Loopholes with Unitary Taxation
Blog
July 19, 2013
David Callahan
Freedom From 9-to-5: Obamacare a Boon to Entrepreneurs
Blog
July 17, 2013
David Callahan
A Cheating Culture Persists on Wall Street: New Survey
Blog
July 17, 2013
David Callahan
Why Walmart Should Defend Food Stamps
Blog
July 15, 2013
David Callahan
Temp Economy vs. American Dream
Blog
June 28, 2013
David Callahan
The End of White Collar Job Security
Blog
June 27, 2013
David Callahan
After the Culture War: Economic Justice
Blog
June 26, 2013
David Callahan
TANF: The Broken Safety Net Program
Blog
June 24, 2013
David Callahan
How Immigration Reform Will Boost Wages
Blog
June 24, 2013
David Callahan
Universal Healthcare and Economic Freedom Go Hand-in-Hand
Blog
June 19, 2013
David Callahan
Forget Not: How Contracting Undermines Government's Institutional Memory
Blog
June 18, 2013
David Callahan
A New Alliance? Progressives and Libertarians Are Agreeing More Often
Blog
June 17, 2013
David Callahan
Does Federal Contracting Waste Tax Dollars?
Blog
June 13, 2013
David Callahan
No, Not a "Stasi" State. But Still Indefensible
Blog
June 12, 2013
David Callahan
How Private Contracting by Government Fans Inequality
Blog
June 12, 2013
David Callahan
Distrusting the Government You Dislike
Blog
June 11, 2013
David Callahan
The End of 9-to-5
Blog
June 7, 2013
David Callahan
Government: Why We Hate the Pig, But Love the Bacon
Blog
June 7, 2013
David Callahan
The 29-Hour Work Week
Blog
June 6, 2013
David Callahan
Why Lobbyists Win. The Case of Dodd-Frank
Blog
June 5, 2013
David Callahan
Speculation and the New Housing Bubble
Blog
June 4, 2013
David Callahan
A Historical Turning Point for Labor? Maybe, as Fast Food Workers Organize
Blog
May 31, 2013
David Callahan
The Road to Redistribution: Why Government—Not Business—Takes the Lead in Reducing Inequality
Blog
May 30, 2013
David Callahan
Why Justin Bieber Should Want a Higher Minimum Wage
Blog
May 29, 2013
David Callahan
What Do Americans Want to Do About Inequality?
Blog
May 28, 2013
David Callahan
Why Liberals Need Radicals
Blog
May 24, 2013
David Callahan
The High Cost of Bad Infrastructure
Blog
May 24, 2013
David Callahan
The Bipartisan Appeal of Infrastructure Spending
Blog
May 23, 2013
David Callahan
Foreclosures and the Ongoing Wealth Wipeout
Blog
May 17, 2013
David Callahan
The IRS Dilemma on Nonprofits
Blog
May 16, 2013
David Callahan
Tax Credits for Low-Income Working Parents Are a Boon to Employers
Blog
May 16, 2013
David Callahan
That Shrinking Deficit
Blog
May 15, 2013
David Callahan
One Job Too Many: A CEO Shouldn't Also Be Chairman
Blog
May 14, 2013
David Callahan
Why Colleges Give Aid So Much Aid to Wealthy Students
Blog
May 13, 2013
David Callahan
Young, In Debt, and Not Spending
Blog
May 10, 2013
David Callahan
The Dark Truth About the Heritage Foundation
Blog
May 10, 2013
David Callahan
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: 401(k)s Have Failed. Time for Mandatory Savings
Blog
May 8, 2013
David Callahan
It's Who You Know: Favoritism, Race, and Getting a Job
Blog
May 7, 2013
David Callahan
Full Employment for the Top 20 Percent
Blog
May 3, 2013
David Callahan
Chinese Power and U.S. Budget Choices
Blog
May 2, 2013
David Callahan
Fiscal Nonsense Index: Peterson Foundation and Global Strategy Group Ask the Same Biased Questions
Blog
May 1, 2013
David Callahan
New Details on the Unmaking of Dodd-Frank
Blog
May 1, 2013
David Callahan
Global Power Requires Less Consumption, More Taxation and Investment
Blog
April 30, 2013
David Callahan
The Shame of Pension-Advance Loans
Blog
April 29, 2013
David Callahan
What Yum! Brands' Low-Wage Empire Costs on the Rest of Us
Blog
April 26, 2013
David Callahan
Blue Chip Banks, Predatory Loans
Blog
April 25, 2013
David Callahan
The Perfectly Legal $4.6 Million Corporate Campaign Donation to Obama
Blog
April 24, 2013
David Callahan
Government and Volunteerism
Blog
April 23, 2013
David Callahan
Delaware Moves Toward B-Corporation Choice
Blog
April 22, 2013
David Callahan
Obama's Budget Plan: Modest Cuts for Seniors, Big Cuts on Everything Else
Blog
April 19, 2013
David Callahan
The New Case for Corporatism: "Inclusive Capitalism" Works Better
Blog
April 8, 2013
David Callahan
Economy is Still Limping. So Why Are We Cutting Spending?
Blog
April 5, 2013
David Callahan
Why Doesn't Urban Outfitters Offer Paid Sick Time? Ask Richard Hayne
Blog
April 4, 2013
David Callahan
Killer Out-of-Pocket Health Expenses Loom in the Future
Blog
April 4, 2013
David Callahan
Goverment Spending Everyone Loves: Science and Health
Blog
April 3, 2013
David Callahan
Big Government Science Spending. Bigger Economic Benefits
Blog
April 2, 2013
David Callahan
Why Chris Christie's Crony Capitalism Has Cratered
Blog
April 2, 2013
David Callahan
No Teacher Left Honest
Blog
April 1, 2013
David Callahan
Paul Ryan's Plan to Raise Your Property Taxes
Blog
March 29, 2013
David Callahan
State Budget Squeeze Has Led to Crazy Tuition Spikes
Blog
March 28, 2013
David Callahan
What Do Wealthy Super Citizens Want from Government?
Blog
March 27, 2013
David Callahan
Radical Inequality
Blog
March 26, 2013
David Callahan
Drugs, Bipartisanship, and the "Leave Us Alone Coalition"
Blog
March 25, 2013
David Callahan
CEOs and Two-Income Professional Couples Shouldn't Pay the Same Tax Rate
Blog
March 22, 2013
David Callahan
The Right Way to Create Jobs
Blog
March 20, 2013
David Callahan
CPC Budget Shows How to Tax Bad Stuff, Not Good Stuff
Blog
March 19, 2013
David Callahan
Finally, a Pro-Growth Budget Proposal
Blog
March 18, 2013
David Callahan
Republicans and Democrats Agree: Keep Taxes Low and Downsize Government
Blog
March 15, 2013
David Callahan
Retail Sales Up. What About Retail Wages?
Blog
March 14, 2013
David Callahan
The Ryan Plan to Lose the Senior Vote
Blog
March 13, 2013
David Callahan
New York's Likely Boost from a Higher Minimum Wage
Blog
March 13, 2013
David Callahan
All Wall Street Regulators Should be Self-Funded
Blog
March 11, 2013
David Callahan
Less Income Means a Shorter Life
Blog
March 11, 2013
David Callahan
Inequality and the Right to Live
Blog
March 11, 2013
David Callahan
What If Everyone Voted?
Blog
March 8, 2013
David Callahan
Jobless Recoveries Are Becoming the Norm
Blog
March 8, 2013
David Callahan
Sen. Grassley: Smart Republican Populist?
Blog
March 7, 2013
David Callahan
Can Walmart Change?
Blog
March 6, 2013
David Callahan
Why Technology Will Make Inequality Much Worse
Blog
March 5, 2013
David Callahan
Are Taxes on the Rich Too High?
Blog
March 4, 2013
David Callahan
How Will the White Working Class Vote After the Culture Wars?
Blog
February 27, 2013
David Callahan
Why It's Hard to Take the RATE Coalition Seriously on Corporate Tax Reform
Blog
February 26, 2013
David Callahan
Why Conservatives Should Like Unions (If Not Love Them)
Blog
February 21, 2013
David Callahan
Should Tax Reform Target Ideological "Charitable" Donations?
Blog
February 20, 2013
David Callahan
Tax Reform and Democracy
Blog
February 20, 2013
David Callahan
Why It Matters How Retail Treats its Workers
Blog
February 19, 2013
David Callahan
Who Would Benefit From a Higher Minimum Wage?
Blog
February 18, 2013
David Callahan
Banning Discrimination Against the Unemployed
Blog
February 15, 2013
David Callahan
Forget the Promise of Revenue-Neutral Corporate Tax Reform
Blog
February 14, 2013
David Callahan
How to Better Mobilize Citizen Volunteers for Disasters
Blog
February 11, 2013
David Callahan
The Bipartisan Plot to Increase the Deficit
Blog
February 8, 2013
David Callahan
Why Employers Should Back Mandatory Paid Sick Time
Blog
February 5, 2013
David Callahan
The Party of "Old White People" Should Protect Entitlements, Right?
Blog
February 4, 2013
David Callahan
A Flawed "Fiscal Confidence Index"
Blog
January 30, 2013
David Callahan
Interest Payments on National Debt Will Partly Go to Senior Entitlements
Blog
January 28, 2013
David Callahan
Federal Government Spends As Much on Interest to Chinese and Japan Bondholders as on Higher Ed
Blog
January 28, 2013
David Callahan
How Out-of-Pocket Medical Costs Drive Even Insured Older Americans Into Debt
Blog
January 25, 2013
David Callahan
What's Wrong With Flat Corporate Profits? Beyond Short-Termism
Blog
January 24, 2013
David Callahan
How the Safety Net Encourages Risk Taking and Spurs Prosperity
Blog
January 22, 2013
David Callahan
An Inauguration for the People? Or for ExxonMobil?
Blog
January 18, 2013
David Callahan
The Problem With Cutting Entitlements is that Seniors Will Need More Help, Not Less
Blog
January 17, 2013
David Callahan
The Endless Attack on the CFPB
Blog
January 16, 2013
David Callahan
The Endless (and Ironic) Attacks on the CFPB
Blog
January 16, 2013
David Callahan
Security First: The Conservative Case for Gun Control
Blog
January 15, 2013
David Callahan
Downsizing the Banks: A U.K. Plan
Blog
January 11, 2013
David Callahan
Business Leaders Should Be Against Austerity, Not For It
Blog
January 10, 2013
David Callahan
No Spending Cuts Until Unemployment Falls Below 6.5 Percent
Blog
January 8, 2013
David Callahan
A Reasonable Defense
Blog
January 7, 2013
David Callahan
89,000 Government Workers Have Been Laid Off Since September
Blog
January 4, 2013
David Callahan
Unfinished Business: Making Banks Transparent
Blog
January 3, 2013
David Callahan
Democrats Agree to $3.6 Trillion Tax Cut
Blog
January 2, 2013
David Callahan
Recipe for National Decline: Interest Payments Will Rise as Domestic Spending Falls
Blog
January 2, 2013
David Callahan
Why Don't Heartland Republicans Want to Raise Taxes on Malibu and Manhattan?
Blog
December 21, 2012
David Callahan
Tax Foreign Corporate Profits by Ending Deferral
Blog
December 20, 2012
David Callahan
Reforming the Senate for Today's Politics
Blog
December 20, 2012
David Callahan
Obama Fingers Wrong Culprit: Social Security Is Not Driving the Deficit
Blog
December 19, 2012
David Callahan
Is the NRA a Paper Tiger?
Blog
December 19, 2012
David Callahan
Big Macs, Big Profits, and Low Wages
Blog
December 18, 2012
David Callahan
Putting the Common Good Above Individual Rights
Blog
December 17, 2012
David Callahan
Lax Gun Laws Amplify the Negative Effects of Mental Illness
Blog
December 15, 2012
David Callahan
How Zero Interest Rate Policy Clobbers Seniors
Blog
December 13, 2012
David Callahan
The Dubious Logic of Sin Taxes
Blog
December 12, 2012
David Callahan
Holder Talks Up Automatic Voter Registration
Blog
December 12, 2012
David Callahan
Why Does Obama Want to Spend $8 Trillion on Defense in the Next Decade?
Blog
December 11, 2012
David Callahan
Bad Retail Jobs Lead Recovery
Blog
December 7, 2012
David Callahan
CAP's Budget Plan: Not Enough Revenue for Future Challenges
Blog
December 6, 2012
David Callahan
This Can't Last: Low Tax Rates, High Revenue Needs
Blog
November 30, 2012
David Callahan
Yes, Raise Taxes on Stock Dividends
Blog
November 29, 2012
David Callahan
Raise Taxes on Stock Dividends
Blog
November 29, 2012
David Callahan
The Case for More Stimulus (And Bigger Deficits)
Blog
November 28, 2012
David Callahan
Should Social Security be Part of Fiscal Talks?
Blog
November 27, 2012
David Callahan
Starving the Watchdog: How Budget Cuts Undermine Financial Regulation
Blog
November 15, 2012
David Callahan
Washington Has Already Reduced the Deficit
Blog
November 13, 2012
David Callahan
Treasury Coddled Banks As They Fanned Foreclosure Crisis
Blog
November 9, 2012
David Callahan
A Mandate for a Conservative Victory on Taxes?
Blog
November 9, 2012
David Callahan
Wealthy Voters: Please Raise Our Taxes
Blog
November 8, 2012
David Callahan
Why the Most Educated Americans Vote Democratic
Blog
November 8, 2012
David Callahan
Closing the Jobs Gap Requires Much Bigger Thinking
Blog
November 2, 2012
David Callahan
Let's Build that New Hudson Tunnel, Governor Christie
Blog
November 1, 2012
David Callahan
Why Should Government Respond Differently to Natural vs. Economic Disasters?
Blog
October 31, 2012
David Callahan
One Month at the SEC Shows Ongoing Financial Fraud Epidemic
Blog
October 19, 2012
David Callahan
End Deferred Taxes on Foreign Corporate Profits
Blog
October 18, 2012
David Callahan
Direct Democracy, for Billionaires
Blog
October 17, 2012
David Callahan
Home Mortgage Tax Break May Be Vulnerable After All
Blog
October 16, 2012
David Callahan
What Happens If the Culture War Disappears?
Blog
October 16, 2012
David Callahan
Morgan Stanley and the Costs of Predatory Lending
Blog
October 15, 2012
David Callahan
Would It Be So Bad to Take From Medicare and Give to Obamacare?
Blog
October 12, 2012
David Callahan
Why Schumer is (Mostly) Right on Taxes
Blog
October 11, 2012
David Callahan
What Obama Should Have Said About the Deficit
Blog
October 4, 2012
David Callahan
What About Inequality?
Blog
October 4, 2012
David Callahan
Good Idea, Bad Math: Romney's Tax Deduction "Bucket"
Blog
October 3, 2012
David Callahan
The Public's Shared Values about the American Dream
Blog
October 2, 2012
David Callahan
Tax Reform Won't Spark Economic Growth
Blog
October 1, 2012
David Callahan
How Supposed Fiscal Hawks Block Deficit Reduction
Blog
October 1, 2012
David Callahan
A Coming Battle Between Business and the Right?
Blog
September 26, 2012
David Callahan
Discover Card and the Business of Cheating
Blog
September 25, 2012
David Callahan
Would Investors Still Take Risks if Capital Gains Taxes Were Higher?
Blog
September 24, 2012
David Callahan
Redistribution is More Popular Than You Think
Blog
September 20, 2012
David Callahan
Freeloader Fabrications
Blog
September 18, 2012
David Callahan
History Lesson: Tax Cuts Are No Magic Bullet
Blog
September 17, 2012
David Callahan
Honey, I Shrank Their Paychecks
Blog
September 12, 2012
David Callahan
Is Tax Reform Even Possible?
Blog
September 11, 2012
David Callahan
Obama's One Exciting Idea: Citizenship
Blog
September 10, 2012
David Callahan
Finally, a Clearer Progressive Vision
Blog
September 6, 2012
David Callahan
Don't Know Nothing About Investing
Blog
September 6, 2012
David Callahan
How Reform Dies in Washington
Blog
August 27, 2012
David Callahan
A Revenue Fix for Social Security is A-Okay With Voters
Blog
August 27, 2012
David Callahan
Tax Avoidance -- Or Evasion? Bain's Tricky Accounting
Blog
August 24, 2012
David Callahan
Don't Pull Up That Ladder Behind Us, Sonny
Blog
August 23, 2012
David Callahan
Generation U: Half of Young Homeowners Are Underwater
Blog
August 23, 2012
David Callahan
How the Middle Class Lost its Mojo
Blog
August 22, 2012
David Callahan
It's a Fiscal Slope, Not a Cliff
Blog
August 22, 2012
David Callahan
Why Are the Financial Watchdogs Still Sleeping?
Blog
August 21, 2012
David Callahan
Double Bonus: High CEO Pay and Low Taxes
Blog
August 20, 2012
David Callahan
Unqualified: Young Debtors Struggle Get Mortgages
Blog
August 17, 2012
David Callahan
Easy Targets Get Protection: CFPB Takes on Senior Financial Abuse
Blog
August 16, 2012
David Callahan
No More Bogus Numbers? How Dodd-Frank Will Reduce Appraisal Fraud
Blog
August 16, 2012
David Callahan
Freeloader Nation? Myths of Government Dependency
Blog
August 15, 2012
David Callahan
Will Any Executives at Standard Chartered Be Punished?
Blog
August 14, 2012
David Callahan
Don't Like High-Speed Trading? Tax It
Blog
August 14, 2012
David Callahan
CFPB Takes Aim at Mortgage Servicers. It's About Time
Blog
August 10, 2012
David Callahan
Smart Machines, Dispensable Workers: A Jobless Future?
Blog
August 9, 2012
David Callahan
About Those Welfare Waivers: The Point is More Work, Not Less
Blog
August 8, 2012
David Callahan
Making Bad Jobs Better: Lessons From Retail
Blog
August 8, 2012
David Callahan
Playing Politics With the Poor: The Case of TANF Waivers
Blog
August 7, 2012
David Callahan
Why Banks Put Profits Above National Security
Blog
August 7, 2012
David Callahan
Thanks to Firings of Teachers and Cops, the Age of Big Government Really Is Over
Blog
August 6, 2012
David Callahan
How Do the Rich Pay No Taxes?
Blog
August 6, 2012
David Callahan
Will We Ever Close the Jobs Gap?
Blog
August 3, 2012
David Callahan
Rubio's Silly Idea: A Special Tax Break for Olympians
Blog
August 2, 2012
David Callahan
If You Worry About Civic Inequality, You Should Also Worry About Economic Inequality
Blog
August 1, 2012
David Callahan
A Young Latino Face for a GOP Ever More Dominated by Older, White Reactionaries?
Blog
August 1, 2012
David Callahan
Obama Is Right: Business Owners Don't Succeed Alone -- Even Jack Gilchrist
Blog
July 31, 2012
David Callahan
Harkin's Retirement Plan: The Right Ideas
Blog
July 30, 2012
David Callahan
Wage Theft and the Attack on American Values
Blog
July 27, 2012
David Callahan
About Time: Raising Penalties for Securities Fraud -- Especially Repeat Offenders
Blog
July 25, 2012
David Callahan
Tax Hikes on the Working Poor
Blog
July 24, 2012
David Callahan
High Profits, Low Wages, and the Growth of Inequality
Blog
July 19, 2012
David Callahan
CFPB's First Enforcement Action: A Good News, Bads News Story in Capital One Settlement
Blog
July 18, 2012
David Callahan
Profit At Any Cost: How Banks Help Drug Traffickers and Terrorists
Blog
July 17, 2012
David Callahan
Revenues and Republicans: Reasons for Hope
Blog
July 16, 2012
David Callahan
A Great Day for Wells Fargo. But Where's the Outrage?
Blog
July 13, 2012
David Callahan
Wells Fargo: Crime, But No Responsibility
Blog
July 12, 2012
David Callahan
Financial Scandals Go On. And On
Blog
July 12, 2012
David Callahan
Wrong Remedy: Why Welfare Reform Didn't End Poverty
Blog
July 11, 2012
David Callahan
Redistribution: Why the Middle Needs to Help the Bottom
Blog
July 10, 2012
David Callahan
Easing the Economic Disaster for Construction Workers With Infrastructure Spending
Blog
July 6, 2012
David Callahan
A Cheating Culture in Banking
Blog
July 5, 2012
David Callahan
A Case for the Individual Mandate, From Mitt Romney
Blog
July 3, 2012
David Callahan
Cities Are Growing Faster Than Suburbs. And That is Good.
Blog
June 28, 2012
David Callahan
Conservative Hypocrisy on the Mandate
Blog
June 28, 2012
David Callahan
Private Equity: Heads We Win, Tails We Win
Blog
June 25, 2012
David Callahan
SCOTUS and a Dangerous Fall of Trust
Blog
June 25, 2012
David Callahan
Private Wealth and the Public Interest: Sherrod Brown Under Attack
Blog
June 22, 2012
David Callahan
Whoops, Forgot to Stash Away $6.6 Trillion for Retirement
Blog
June 22, 2012
David Callahan
Market Failure 101: The Legal Ripoff of Opaque Bank Fees
Blog
June 20, 2012
David Callahan
Democrats and the New Wedge Issues
Blog
June 19, 2012
David Callahan
Fed Study Underscores Retirement Crisis
Blog
June 18, 2012
David Callahan
Fed Study: Rich Got Richer, Even as Everyone Else Got Poorer
Blog
June 13, 2012
David Callahan
Capitalism At Its Worst: Wells Fargo's Subprime Mortgage Machine
Blog
June 13, 2012
David Callahan
The Training Shift: Employers Win, Students Lose from Master's Degree Mania
Blog
June 12, 2012
David Callahan
The Trainining Shift: Employers Win, Students Lose from Master's Degree Mania
Blog
June 12, 2012
David Callahan
New Grads and America's Ever Growing Would-be Labor Force
Blog
June 11, 2012
David Callahan
Secret Dodd-Frank Weapon: New Whistleblower Law
Blog
June 8, 2012
David Callahan
George W. Bush: Stimulus President
Blog
June 8, 2012
David Callahan
How to Stimulate Growth Without New Government Spending
Blog
June 7, 2012
David Callahan
Case Closed: The 401(k) is a Failure
Blog
June 6, 2012
David Callahan
How the Senate Empowers Big Money
Blog
May 31, 2012
David Callahan
The 401(k) System: Great for Wall Street, Bad for Retirees
Blog
May 30, 2012
David Callahan
Another Reason to Distrust Wall Street: 401(k) Fees
Blog
May 29, 2012
David Callahan
Facebook and Wall Street's Inside Game
Blog
May 25, 2012
David Callahan
Have Private Equity "Reformers" Spurred U.S. Productivity?
Blog
May 25, 2012
David Callahan
Private Equity: Can't We Have the Good Without the Bad?
Blog
May 24, 2012
David Callahan
How Private Equity Gains by Driving Companies Into Debt
Blog
May 23, 2012
David Callahan
What David Brooks Misses About Private Equity
Blog
May 22, 2012
David Callahan
Apple CEO Payday and the Triumph of Capital
Blog
May 22, 2012
David Callahan
A Fair Attack on Private Equity
Blog
May 21, 2012
David Callahan
Tech Successes Are Great, But Don't Solve the Economic Crisis
Blog
May 21, 2012
David Callahan
Facebook IPO Gives the Rich (Even) More Clout
Blog
May 18, 2012
David Callahan
The Jobless Tech Boom
Blog
May 18, 2012
David Callahan
Tax Pollution, Not Income: A Winning Issue for Politicians?
Blog
May 8, 2012
David Callahan
Of Light Bulbs and Liberty -- and Lunacy, Too
Blog
May 8, 2012
David Callahan
The Case for Raising Taxes on the Middle Class
Blog
May 7, 2012
David Callahan
Making Things Worse By Cutting Government Jobs
Blog
May 4, 2012
David Callahan
Why Apple Can Afford to Do Better
Blog
May 4, 2012
David Callahan
Is Guns vs. Butter a Winning Argument?
Blog
May 3, 2012
David Callahan
Mandatory Spending and the Future of Government
Blog
May 1, 2012
David Callahan
iCheat: Apple's Tax Avoidance
Blog
April 30, 2012
David Callahan
How Super PACs Weaken the Social Contract
Blog
April 27, 2012
David Callahan
Photo ID Law Bars Veteran from the Polls
Blog
April 26, 2012
David Callahan
Eliminate the Corpore Income Tax? Maybe
Blog
April 26, 2012
David Callahan
Cutting Food Stamps Is Cruel, Says Bob Herbert
Blog
April 24, 2012
David Callahan
Fewer Ripoffs at Tax Time as Feds Squash "Refund Anticipation Loans"
Blog
April 17, 2012
David Callahan
Read My Lips: Fairer Taxes
Blog
April 12, 2012
David Callahan
Pressuring Apple and Changing Foxconn: Lessons Learned
Blog
April 2, 2012
David Callahan
States Benefiting Most from Obamacare Try to Kill It
Blog
March 26, 2012
David Callahan
How Citizens United Empowers the Fringe
Blog
March 26, 2012
David Callahan
States Benefitting Most from Obamacare Try to Kill It
Blog
March 26, 2012
David Callahan
Beyond the Car Culture?
Blog
March 23, 2012
David Callahan
Morality and the Mandate
Blog
March 22, 2012
David Callahan
The Case for a Peacetime Defense Budget
Blog
March 22, 2012
David Callahan
Making Corruption a Progressive Priority
Blog
March 20, 2012
David Callahan
Ryan's Wrong Assumptions About the Size of Government
Blog
March 20, 2012
David Callahan
George Clooney Arrested, for Being a Serious Person
Blog
March 16, 2012
David Callahan
More Fraud, Few Jobs: Why the JOBS Act is a Bad Bill
Blog
March 16, 2012
David Callahan
Four Ironies of the Individual Mandate
Blog
March 15, 2012
David Callahan
Who Gets Hurt the Most from Rising Gas Prices?
Blog
March 13, 2012
David Callahan
Lessons of Deregulation: Corporate Cost-Cutting and the BP Disaster
Blog
March 12, 2012
David Callahan
Women Leaders at Progressive Think Tanks
Blog
March 8, 2012
David Callahan
An Unequal Recovery Shows that Inequality is Growing Bigger and Faster
Blog
March 7, 2012
David Callahan
Who Wins from Hyper-Partisanship As Olympia Snowe Departs?
Blog
February 29, 2012
David Callahan
Chardon High School Shooting, Bullying, and T.J. Lane
Blog
February 27, 2012
David Callahan
What Santorum Gets Right -- and Wrong -- About Skills and College
Blog
February 27, 2012
David Callahan
The "Biggest Single Stimulus" is NOT Deficit Reduction
Blog
February 27, 2012
David Callahan
The Feds and High-Tech Innovation: Can Washington Pick Winners?
Blog
February 24, 2012
David Callahan
Dept. of Bogus Statistics: The Myth of the Non-Taxpaying Free Rider
Blog
February 24, 2012
David Callahan
Top Threat of the Future: Energy Crisis or High-Tech Military Foe?
Blog
February 23, 2012
David Callahan
Redistribution and the Healthcare Law: Take from the Red and Give to the Blue
Blog
February 16, 2012
David Callahan
The Illogic of "Funding" Payroll Tax Cuts
Blog
February 8, 2012
David Callahan
Another Reason Americans Hate Congress -- and Want Reform
Blog
February 8, 2012
David Callahan
Go Rand Paul! Closing the Revolving Door Between Industry and Congress
Blog
February 7, 2012
David Callahan
Claremont SAT Case Shows the Menace of Metrics
Blog
February 2, 2012
David Callahan
Blaming the Victims of Inequality
Blog
January 31, 2012
David Callahan
No Admission of Wrongdoing by Fined Debt Collector
Blog
January 31, 2012
David Callahan
Obama Needs To Be Bolder on Corporate Tax Reform
Blog
January 30, 2012
David Callahan
Obama Needs To Be Bolder on Coroprate Tax Reform
Blog
January 30, 2012
David Callahan
The Biggest Idea in Obama's Speech: A Common Good
Blog
January 26, 2012
David Callahan
Holding the Powerful Accountable for Bad Behavior
Blog
January 25, 2012
David Callahan
The Wrong Foreclosure Settlement
Blog
January 23, 2012
David Callahan
Wealth Elites on Both Sides in 2012 Election
Blog
January 20, 2012
David Callahan
Bribes We Should Know About: Big Pharma Payoffs to Doctors Will Be Public
Blog
January 17, 2012
David Callahan
Yes, Streamline Government
Blog
January 13, 2012
David Callahan
Why the IRS Can't Do Its Job
Blog
January 12, 2012
David Callahan
Biggest Public Gripe on Taxes: Rich Don't Pay Fair Share
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January 12, 2012
David Callahan
Another Problem with Inequality: Social Tension
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January 11, 2012
David Callahan
Progressive Prerequisite: Making Government Work
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January 10, 2012
David Callahan
$3 Trillion Lost to Tax Evasion in Past Decade. Wealthy Cheat Most
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January 9, 2012
David Callahan
The Year In Review: New Evidence of Poverty Amid Riches
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January 1, 2012
David Callahan
The Year in Review: Consumers Get A New Watchdog
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December 29, 2011
David Callahan
Wealthy Congress, Strapped Americans
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December 27, 2011
David Callahan
The Year In Review: Occupy Wall Street
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December 26, 2011
David Callahan
Minimum Wage Hikes Coming in Eight States
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December 24, 2011
David Callahan
Buy Nothing Christmas
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December 24, 2011
David Callahan
Foreign Corporate Profits Are Not "Trapped" Abroad
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December 16, 2011
David Callahan
Iraq: Geopolitical Folly in a Geoeconomic Age
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December 15, 2011
David Callahan
Taxes and the Future of OWS
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December 14, 2011
David Callahan
Game Plan for the 99 Percent
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December 13, 2011
David Callahan
Big Thinking on Tax Reform in California -- But Not Big Enough
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December 12, 2011
David Callahan
Hypocrisy and the Payroll Tax
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December 6, 2011
David Callahan
Wrong Direction: Needless Layoffs of Government Workers
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December 2, 2011
David Callahan
New Jobs Aren't Always Good Jobs
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December 2, 2011
David Callahan
Americans Elect: Big Money, More Centrist Choices
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November 25, 2011
David Callahan
Demos v. Cato Round III: Occupy Washington In Addition To Wall Street
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November 23, 2011
David Callahan
CBO Report Shows the Stimulus Worked
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November 23, 2011
David Callahan
Stimulus At Stake in Payroll Tax and Unemployment Renewal
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November 22, 2011
David Callahan
Is the System Really Broken?
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November 22, 2011
David Callahan
Demos v. Cato Round I: Bailouts Saved Us From a Second Great Depression
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November 17, 2011
David Callahan
Making Cheating Easier on Wall Street: CTFC Budget Cuts
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November 15, 2011
David Callahan
Part-Time Congress for a Full-Time Superpower?
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November 15, 2011
David Callahan
Yes, But: Americans on Equality of Outcome
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November 14, 2011
David Callahan
Forget Perry's "Oops" Moment: Talk About His Bad Ideas
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November 11, 2011
David Callahan
Real Point of Perry's Stumble: Hating Government is a Reflex, Not a Plan
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November 10, 2011
David Callahan
Point of Perry's Stumble: Hating Government is a Reflex, Not a Plan
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November 10, 2011
David Callahan
Equitable Growth: PolicyLink's Economic Vision
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November 8, 2011
David Callahan
Billionaires for Higher Taxes: Gates Backs an FTT
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November 7, 2011
David Callahan
Making Hard Times Worse: Public Sector Fired 24,000 Workers Last Month
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November 4, 2011
David Callahan
Compromise is Needed for "Certainty"
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November 1, 2011
David Callahan
Majority of Rich Support New Taxes and Spending
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November 1, 2011
David Callahan
Majority of Rich New Taxes and Spending
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November 1, 2011
David Callahan
Who Knows Best How to Use Wealth?
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October 31, 2011
David Callahan
Getting Ahead is Now Harder in the New World Than the Old
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October 28, 2011
David Callahan
Google Lessons: Business Screws Up, Too
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October 27, 2011
David Callahan
Who Will Solve Our Problems? Hard Times and the Crisis of Political Legitimacy
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October 26, 2011
David Callahan
Repatriation Tax Holiday Rewards Bad Behavior
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October 20, 2011
David Callahan
Needless Layoffs: Firing 1,000 Public Workers a Day is Bad Policy
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October 19, 2011
David Callahan
Phony Talk of Crony Capitalism
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October 12, 2011
David Callahan
Failed Policy: Why the Last Corporate Repatriation Tax Holiday Didn't Work
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October 12, 2011
David Callahan
Will the Real Rebels Please Stand Up
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October 12, 2011
David Callahan
$1 Billion to Get Its Way: Wall Street Money in Politics Since 2009
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October 6, 2011
David Callahan
Protesters Choose the Right Target
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October 5, 2011
David Callahan
Guess Who Likes the Buffett Rule?
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October 3, 2011
David Callahan
Aspiration, Taxes, and "Class Warfare"
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September 27, 2011
David Callahan
Capitol Games on Capital Gains
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September 26, 2011
David Callahan
Bloomberg: Raise Taxes on Everyone
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September 26, 2011
David Callahan
Upper Class Divide
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September 23, 2011
David Callahan
What Cuomo Doesn't Understand About Taxes and Prosperity
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September 22, 2011
David Callahan
Spending Cuts Will Retard Recovery More Than Tax Hikes
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September 21, 2011
David Callahan
Small Government = High Poverty in U.S. States
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September 14, 2011
David Callahan
Unfinished Business: Poverty Still Common Among Seniors
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September 14, 2011
David Callahan
The Big Lie: Corporate Taxes Aren't Higher in U.S.
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September 14, 2011
David Callahan
Native Born Americans Have Higher Poverty Rates Than Naturalized Citizens
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September 14, 2011
David Callahan
Bad Breaks: Tax Perks Neither Party Should Like
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September 13, 2011
David Callahan
Out With Fact, In With Faith: How Ideology Keeps the Economy Down
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September 9, 2011
David Callahan
Wrong Metric: Irene Shows How GDP Mismeasures Growth
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August 31, 2011
David Callahan
How to Raise $2.6 Trillion in Taxes from Wall Street
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August 23, 2011
David Callahan
Growth Check: The Economic Cost of the Market's Decline
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August 19, 2011
David Callahan
The Warren-Brown Race: Progressive Populism vs. Conservative Populism
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August 18, 2011
David Callahan
News Corp. Ethics: Rotten at the Top
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August 18, 2011
David Callahan
The Price of Speculation: A Financial Transaction Tax
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August 16, 2011
David Callahan
Planet Populism vs. Planet Elite
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August 16, 2011
David Callahan
I Should Pay More: Warren Buffett's Truths About Taxes
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August 15, 2011
David Callahan
What Future is Best for the Rich?
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August 15, 2011
David Callahan
The GOP's War on Business
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August 12, 2011
David Callahan
Ratings Agencies vs. Democracy
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August 10, 2011
David Callahan
Game Changer: The New SEC Whistleblower Rules
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August 10, 2011
David Callahan
Minority President: Public Opinion and Obama
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August 8, 2011
David Callahan
Did the Tax Cuts in the Stimulus Work?
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August 8, 2011
David Callahan
JP Morgan Chase: More Evidence of Wrongdoing
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July 12, 2011
David Callahan
How the Stimulus Has Propped Up the Economy
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July 11, 2011
David Callahan
Conservative States Rely Most on Government Benefits
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July 11, 2011
David Callahan
Public Sector Jobs Losses Hurt the Economy
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July 8, 2011
David Callahan
Amoral Capitalism: The Irresistable Economics of Tabloid Sleaze
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July 7, 2011
David Callahan
The Case Against Chase, Another "Bad Bank"
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July 6, 2011
David Callahan
Uncollected Fines Undermine Regulation
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July 5, 2011
David Callahan
The Attack on Dodd-Frank
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July 1, 2011
David Callahan
Are High Taxes Hurting Minnesota?
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July 1, 2011
David Callahan
Cost of Wars May Exceed $6 Trillion
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June 29, 2011
David Callahan
Hard Target: Prosecute Wall Street for Misleading Investors
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June 29, 2011
David Callahan
Will Levin Really Oppose the Colombia FTA?
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June 28, 2011
David Callahan
Congress Gears Up for Tax Reform
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June 27, 2011
David Callahan
Budget Plans and Budget Talks: The GOP's Chasm on Taxes
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June 24, 2011
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