1. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, March 16 – 22, 2013
(Matching tags: immigration, education, budget, globalization, work, job market)

... Oakford Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Ryan Budget Would Undermine Safety Net’s Work Supports  Sharon Parrott Economic Policy Institute Using Standard Models to Benchmark the Costs ...

2. USA Today Says It's Time to Tax Wall Street
(Matching tags: economy, budget, deficit, FTT, financial speculation tax)

The financial transaction tax has truly gone mainstream, with the nation's widest-circulation print newspaper, USA Today, endorsing it as a way to tamp down on dangerous high-speed trading. Their editorial, ...

3. Wall Street Tax Eclipses Other Deficit Reduction Options
(Matching tags: Wall Street, budget, deficit, financial transaction tax)

Most Americans will never see a million, let alone billions, of dollars in their lifetimes.  So it’s easy to get lost among various federal budget options in the billions of dollars.  To help, ...

4. Labor Market Policy Research Reports May 14 - 18, 2012
(Matching tags: economy, labor market, Social Security, budget, middle class, income, paid time off)

... Public Benefits: Emerging Options, Great Promise, and Key Challenges Stan Dorn and Elizabeth Lower-Basch Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Testimony Of Ladonna Pavetti, Ph.D. Vice President, ...

5. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, May 7 - 11, 2012
(Matching tags: health care, labor market, unemployment, Social Security, work sharing, reform, budget)

... Woo and Dean Baker Center on Budget and Policy Priorities What the 2012 Trustees’ Report Shows About Social Security Kathy A. Ruffing Are Low-Income Programs Enlarging the Nation’s Long-Term Fiscal ...

6. Should We Cut Cancer Research to Pay for More Bombers?
(Matching tags: economy, recession, jobs, unemployment, defense, budget)

This is the agenda of many Republicans as we start to get closer to the date where the sequestration rules from a 2011 budget agreement will actually bite. The deal was structured so that the immediate ...

7. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, April 23 - 27, 2012
(Matching tags: poverty, labor market, inequality, elderly, education, taxes, budget, medicaid, productivity)

... (Title II) Provisions in WIA Reauthorization Proposals Marcie Foster Center on Budget and Policy Priorities President’s Budget Would Reduce Pell Grant Shortfall; Ryan Budget Would Nearly Triple It ...

8. Austerity, the Path to Prosperity?
(Matching tags: economy, unemployment, spending, stimulus, austerity, budget, deficit)

Rep. Paul Ryan sat down with Steve Forbes recently to have a "very serious" conversation about the U.S. economy. The architect of the House budget plan, Ryan stated in the interview that what America needs ...

9. Mr. Arithmetic Meets Mitt Romney and His Budget Cutters
(Matching tags: stimulus, budget, deficit)

... between 2-3 million jobs. (Of course we needed 12-13 million, but that is another story.) For example, the Congressional Budget Office came up with an estimate along these lines in 2010. Using an entirely ...

10. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, April 9 – 13, 2012
(Matching tags: economy, retirement, Social Security, paid family leave, budget, medicaid, SNAP)

... Policy Research The Impact on Inequality of Raising the Social Security Retirement Age David Rosnick and Dean Baker Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Chartbook: SNAP Helps Struggling Families ...