Right now policymakers are grappling with the implications of slow economic growth in the United States and the rest of the industrialized world. One response…
The end of the calendar year always means an assortment of “temporary” policies are approaching expiration, including some (e.g., upward revision of reimbursement rates for…
<img class=”alignleft size-medium wp-image-20907″ title=”3536439053_29b49dc71a” src=”http://progressivepolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3536439053_29b49dc71a-200×300.jpg” alt=”CWA” width=”200″ height=”300″ />AT&T is a big company, which perhaps explains why federal regulators are ganging up to block…
The official failure of the congressional “supercommittee” came and went without much hand-wringing in Wingnut World; indeed, the prevailing sentiment was quiet satisfaction that Republicans…
It was a relatively quiet week in Wingnut World, with the loudest mouths probably conserving energy for cries of “betrayal” in the unlikely case that…
A funny thing happened on my way to an international forum on democracy and human rights in Rome last week: the Italian government fell. It…
Yesterday was Election Day in scattered parts of the country, and it was not a terribly successful election night in Wingnut World. Two ballot initiatives…
PPI Special Report The following is a guest column from PPI friend and sometime contributor Earl Brown, Labor and Employment Law Counsel for the American…
As the November 23 deadline for congressional action on a “supercommittee” package to reduce budget deficits by $1.2 trillion and avoid automatic domestic and defense…