Hey, What’d I Miss? OTE Summary, 1/22 – 1/27
January 27th, 2014 at 11:08 am
- Examining the relationship between immigration and poverty.
- Pointing to Mark Schmitt’s incisive thoughts about the recent uptick in the inequality debate.
- Explaining why stable income mobility is not a finding that “muddles the debate” on mobility or inequality.
- Looking at whether the housing bubble was more damaging than the dot.com bubble.
- Arguing that accountability — and lack thereof — is an important part of the debate on inequality and opportunity.
- Noting that Steve Rattner’s NYT op-ed makes a key omission re: the state of US manufacturing.
- Mentioning that the UK conservatives now support a higher minimum wage.
- Highlighting Robert Samuelson’s omission in his piece on Bernanke’s time at the Fed.
- Explaining that President Obama does many things well, but being a Socialist is not one of them.
- Pointing to a nice WaPo editorial on a plan that raises low incomes by both raising the minimum wage and expanding the EITC.
- Looking at recent trends in profits (up) and wages (down) at the NYT Economix blog.
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