by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 13, 2019 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong After divvying up workers like this (and perhaps he does so with too broad of strokes), Temin explains why there are such stark divisions between them. He focuses on how the construction of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 23, 2019 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
Forget China – it’s America’s own economic system that’s broken | Robert Reich US weakness is inbuilt – the big 500 companies owe loyalty only to themselves and the public is shut out from...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 2, 2019 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
Incompetent, rich people are more likely to get ahead than smart people with no money By In the course of her career and research into workplace behavior, Nicole Jones Young has noticed that some managers recognize the work of the loudest, most confident and,...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 1, 2019 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
The article is from the summer of 2015 but geez it is still relevant today in 2019! Raising the Minimum Wage is only the Beginning… If you want to tackle poverty; but first lets discuss what raising the minimum wage would do. Low income workers spend the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 5, 2019 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Economics & The Economy, Jobs
Two Charts Show Trump’s Job Gains Are Just A Continuation From Obama’s Presidency There has been a fair amount of rhetoric about the job growth and lower unemployment rate seen since President Trump took office. Candidate Trump touted that there would be...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 5, 2019 | • Politics, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Economics & The Economy
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a fan of a geeky economic theory called MMT: Here’s a plain-English guide to what it is and why it’s interesting Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) should be “a larger part of the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 3, 2019 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
I was looking around for something that would explain to me exactly what Trumponomics is (other than a random scattershot policy) and while I haven’t really found an answer yet I did come across this interesting video on what Trump doesn’t get or...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 26, 2019 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy
This economist and Brown University Professor Mark Blyth circa September 2010 talking about economic Austerity just prior to the publication of his book Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea in...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 23, 2019 | Economics & The Economy
A very detailed walkthrough of Modern Monetary Theory, the big new left economic idea Finding the best ways to do good. Made possible by The Rockefeller Foundation. Modern Monetary Theory is having a moment. The theory, in brief, argues that countries that issue their...
