Trade policy has been an important factor in the upward redistribution of wealth over the prior four decades. This is a path definitely worth changing.
This debate on immigration misses the role of the United States in Central America in creating the conditions that have driven so many to risk the long, arduous, and often fatal trek to get here.
Over the past 30 years, large shares of U.S. workers have had jobs that have paid wages so low that, even with full-time, year-round employment, their earnings would still fall below federal poverty guideline for their family size
The economist and policy types who have been pushing the trade agenda of the last four decades often make assertions like “everyone gains from trade.” This is what is known in the economics profession as a “lie.”
Few of the people retiring 10 or 15 years from now will be receiving any income from a defined benefit pension Under the plan put in place in New York, workers who do not have a plan at their workplace would automatically have 3 percent of their pay deducted and placed into an account managed by the government.
