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More »As the Memorial Day weekend gets underway, political news becomes quieter and more random. But there’s plenty of choice cuts for the grill “behind the…
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Since 2000, the nation’s poverty rate has been creeping inexorably upward, from a near-historic low of11.3 percent in 2000 to 15 percent in 2011. But…
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If you believe the recent blitz of student debt coverage, private student lenders are to blame for the economic woes of recent college graduates. Lending…
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The Capitol Hill hearing on the IRS scandal this week upstaged another Senate investigation into how U.S. technology companies shelter earnings from domestic taxes. That…
If confirmed by the Senate, Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C., will replace Ed DeMarco, the current – and controversial – acting director of the Federal Housing...
Tom Wheeler, President Obama’s nominee to be the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has a critical choice to make if he is confirmed by…
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The Atlantic’s Molly Ball quotes PPI President Will Marshall while discussing what Republicans can learn from the Democrat’s revival: The DLC had initially pursued a...
Writing for US News & World Report, Jason Gold notes that the Federal Housing Administration is outperforming most analysts expectations. Normally a small part of...
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Over the last year, California has added jobs faster than the country as a whole, in large part because of the booming Internet/tech sector. Indeed,…
The natural accumulation of federal regulations over time imposes an unintended but significant cost to businesses and to economic growth. However, no effective process currently…
It’s easy enough to get progressives to agree that austerity is not the answer to the malaise that pervades the transatlantic world. What’s hard is…
There has been a sea change in public attitudes toward natural gas. Not so long ago natural gas was widely viewed as a “bridge fuel”…



