by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 8, 2019 | • Politics, Barak Obama, Donald Trump, Economics & The Economy, Jobs
Trump didn’t transform the economy – it’s mostly the same as it was under Obama By President Trump has not transformed the U.S. economy for the better, as he promised he would. It has not “exceeded expectations,” as he claimed in a speech...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 5, 2019 | Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
The great American labor paradox: Plentiful jobs, most of them bad The numbers tell one story. Unemployment in the US is the lowest it’s been in 50 years. More Americans have jobs than ever before. Wage growth keeps climbing. People tell a different story. Long...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 3, 2019 | Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
Almost half of all Americans work in low-wage jobs Almost half of U.S. workers between ages 18 to 64 are employed in low-wage jobs, the Brookings Institution found. Low-wage jobs are pervasive, representing between one-third to two-thirds of all jobs in the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 9, 2019 | Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
A minimum-wage worker needs 2.5 full-time jobs to afford a one-bedroom apartment in most of the US Many minimum-wage workers can’t even afford a modest one-bedroom apartment, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s annual report. The...
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 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 | May 1, 2019 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Jobs, Tax Policy
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 7, 2019 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
What if the National Debt Doesn’t Actually Matter? The national debt is ballooning, surpassing $22 trillion. Conservatives and progressives alike, are aghast at the number and different political parties will use this number to different ends, but all will say...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 7, 2019 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
A thorough defense of Modern Monetary Theory “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win” — Gandhi’s aphorism neatly describes the trajectory to date of Modern Monetary Theory, the latest incarnation of...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 7, 2019 | • Politics, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
Democrats’ Twitter war: Should U.S. borrow a lot, or a whole lot? WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Twitter may not be the best place to decide the future of the U.S. economy. But square off a Nobel laureate and a former U.S. Treasury chief against a firebrand...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Mar 6, 2019 | Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
This video by Robert Reich was first published back in 2013 but it is still just as true today and it’s getting...
