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A New York-based think tank released a report today questioning Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr’s assertion that the city’s long-term debt is responsible for its fiscal problems, or that pension contributions are at major hurdle for the city’s finances. Instead, the report by Wallace Turbeville
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Todd Spangler
Matt Helms

The causes of Detroit's bankruptcy and what the city's emergency manager can do to turn it around.

Research
Wallace C. Turbeville
The 2007 economic crisis and the lingering stagnation it wrought has led economists, philosophers and policymakers to a profound rethinking of how we measure economic performance and social progress. As Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya Sen and Jean-Paul Fitoussi write in the forward to their book
Blog
Sean McElwee
This is supposed to be a cheery season for retailers. Not at Wal-Mart (WMT), though, where it’s been a really bad week—and this is only Wednesday. On Monday, the Cleveland Plain Dealer broke the news of a holiday food drive at an Ohio Walmart store—for its own employees. The newspaper story
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Susan Berfield

How Walmart Can Invest in Its Workforce Without Costing Customers a Dime

Research
Catherine Ruetschlin
Amy Traub
Today is World Toilet Day, which strikes me as a good moment to reflect on how government can radically improve people's daily lives.
Blog
David Callahan
We need to restore the positive concept of public goods that existed decades ago.
Blog
June Sekera
In the past week, both a senior editor at Fortune magazine and the liberal think tank Demos have made similar proposals for how Walmart could greatly increase worker wages without harming its business prospects.
In the media
Hamilton Nolan
“We are on strike today to have respect and dignity at work,” says Walter Melendez, one of approximately 40 Los Angeles port truck drivers who walked off the job at 5a.m. morning in protest of alleged unfair labor practices. The strikes featured the rolling “ambulatory pickets” that the truckers
In the media
Sarah Jaffe
A new brief by the national public policy organization Demos analyzes one way Walmart can raise worker pay to meet employees’ $25,000 benchmark target. A Higher Wage is Possible: How Walmart Can Invest in Its Workforce Without Costing Customers a Dime details how Walmart can give workers a raise by
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