economy
The State of Opportunity
The State of Opportunity
As the Dow Jones Industrial Average inches upward, there will be a strong temptation--especially from financial news outlets--to equate recovery by shareholders with the recovery of economic security in our country.
A Trillion Dollars for the Banks: How About a Second Opinion?
A Trillion Dollars for the Banks: How About a Second Opinion?
Tags: Thinking Big, Bail Out, economy, PIN, Progressive Ideas Network
Why Conservatives Can't Think Big About the Middle Class
Thinking Big Podcast 4: Connecting Opportunity and Prosperity
Commonweal Institute Senior Fellow Patrick O'Heffernan interviews Alan Jenkins, Director of the Opportunity Agenda, and Nancy Cleeland, Director of External Affairs at the Economic Policy Institute, about the relationship between expanding opportunity for all Americans and achieving an economic goal of broadly shared prosperity. From the new book from the Progressive Ideas Network, Thinking Big: Progressive Ideas for a New Era.
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Tags: economy, prosperity, opportunity, equity
Thinking Big Podcast 2: The Financial Crisis and the Fall of the Middle Class
Commonweal Institute Senior Fellow Patrick O'Heffernan interviews Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Director of the Drum Major Institute, about the current economic crisis and the pressure it is placing on America's middle class. From the new book from the Progressive Ideas Network, Thinking Big: Progressive Ideas for a New Era.
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Tags: regulation, recession, middle class, labor, financial crisis, family leave, economy




