South Dakota Democrats campaigning for the initiative to raise South Dakota's minimum wage can turn to economists for support. Economists pretty strongly favor raising the minimum wage. They generally take the position laid out by Brad DeLong that wealth has…
Posts tagged as “Robert Reich”
The Common Good Film Series brings Inequality for All to Brookings on January 21, 2014. In this documentary, economic intellectual dynamo Robert Reich explains rising income inequality and its effect on the American economy and democracy. Go see it! See…
We Dems have our nominee, Matt Varilek, to take down Kristi Noem this November. One of the few major policy issues that differentiated Varilek from his primary challenger, Jeff Barth, was extending the Bush tax cuts. Varilek says we need…
Ever since the 2008 economic collapse, I've been wondering if these Intertubes and electron harvesters might actually keep us from recovering from the recession. No, not because information technology cuts into productivity thanks to everyone's tweeting (although I could be…
Robert Reich appears to be reading the same columns as I am. He sees Republicans using the "Weapon of Mass Cynicism" to undermine faith in government and destroy our greatest social policy acheivements: Times are tough again, but the Weapon…
Robert Reich laments that the Republicans have effectively used a manufactured debt crisis to divert everyone's attention from the real problem they don't want to solve: the jobs crisis: If and when the economy begins to grow faster &ndash if…
Meeting your opponents halfway is not an inherently good solution. Rep. Paul Ryan and Intern Kristi Noem are staking out right-wing positions so extreme, toward destructive privatization of vital social functions and abandonment of moral obligations to the old, sick,…
Senator Tim Johnson was on SDPB Dakota Midday Tuesday insisting that he had no choice but to vote for the $858 billion Stimulus II that the Republican leadership and President Obama worked out. Funny: Senator Tom Harkin from Iowa thought…