Author: Matt Bruenig
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The Job Guarantee and the Unemployment System
Workfare is back baby. But it's good now. Or is it?
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Thinking About the Unemployment System
If the left wants to lead on unemployment, we need serious proposals.
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The Racial Wealth Gap Is About the Upper Classes
The top decile disparities drive almost the entire racial wealth gap.
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Heroes Act Retroactively Incentivizes Labor Supply in 2019
Dems effort to fix the EITC for COVID-19 has an indefensible structure.
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The Myths of the Earned Income Tax Credit
The EITC is ineffective and inefficient. It's time to end it.
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Reflections on the Coronavirus Economic Relief Bills
How are our strange mix of relief efforts playing out?
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Threatening Retaliation for Protected Activity Is No Joke
Ben Domenech is trying to use the media to get out of following the law.
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Medicare for Kids Would Cost 1.7 Percent of GDP
Medicare for Kids is fairly cheap and easy to finance.
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Should Sanders Have Campaigned Like Warren?
It seems like the answer is no because she lost badly.
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An Incremental Expansion of Medicare Should Begin With Kids
Joe Biden's proposal to reduce the eligibility age to 60 is misguided.
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Three Ways to Make Emergency Economic Responses Better
Transfer payments for all and government administration of payroll.
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How To Think About Corporate Bailouts Correctly
Get that equity. Get that bread. Get those bands. Now. Now. Now.
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Understanding Claims About Basic Income and Inflation
Job guarantee advocates are broadly dishonest and stupid.
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Some Economic Responses to the Coronavirus Recession
Some thoughts on how to respond to this recession in particular.
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FAMILY Act Would Deny Benefits to One-Third of New Parents
Proponents of paid family leave need to fix this glaring problem now.
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Fareed Zakaria Is Completely Ignorant About the Nordics
Zakaria fakes his way through another essay with predictable results.
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Comparing Warren's and Sanders's Child Care Proposals
Warren's plan relies upon complicated and pointless user fees.
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Warren's Increasingly Desperate Health Care Messaging
Fading from the race, Warren tries to rehabilitate her bad health plan.
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Free Public Child Care and Pre-K Is Popular and Affordable
For a fraction of the military budget, the US could provide free public child care for all.
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Bloomberg Is Wealthier Than The Bottom 125 Million Americans
Other estimates suggest the real number is over 150 million people.
