1. Mitt Romney: the Candidate of Change?
(Matching tags: health care, Obama, election 2012, romney, minimum wage)

In 2008, then Senator Obama famously ran as the candidate of hope and change. If former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney ends up getting the Republican nomination he may be the candidate of change in ...

2. Should Presidential Candidates Be Afraid to Talk about Declining Mobility and Growing Inequality?
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, election 2012)

In two previous posts, John Schmitt and I discussed social science evidence supporting the argument, made most recently in the Economic Report of the President, that rising inequality in the United States ...

3. Even the Guy Who Dosn't Care About Poor People Wants to Raise the Minimum Wage: Where Does President Obama Stand?
(Matching tags: economy, recession, Obama, election 2012, romney)

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who remarked yesterday that he doesn't care about the poor, supports indexing the minimum wage to inflation. If the minimum wage had been indexed since its last ...