Supply and Demand: Workforce Edition
A coming shortage of highly skilled labor is likely to create new kinds of social disparities. By Sheila Suess Kennedy Recently, a German economist predicted a significant worldwide labor shortage...
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Dethroning Reagan’s ‘Welfare Queen’
The reality of poor Americans' lives is far more complex than cultural stereotypes suggest. By Sheila Suess Kennedy [caption id="attachment_7539" align="alignright" width="166"] Despite evidence to the contrary, the myth of...
A Forgotten Lesson: It’s the Economy, Stupid
Progressives should take a lesson from President Clinton's 1992 campaign: it's still the economy, stupid. By Sheila Suess Kennedy [caption id="attachment_7411" align="alignright" width="291"] Strategist James Carville famously coined this phrase,...
Why the Rich Hate Popular Democracy
Genuine democracy not only includes everyone, it's good for everyone. By Sheila Suess Kennedy Paul Krugman has a knack for telling it like it is. His recent column in The...