Tag Archives: U.S. economy

America’s Home-Made Raw Deal for Workers

Successive U.S. administrations have said the right things on helping workers deal with globalization, but not acted.

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U.S. Trade Policy: Populist Anger or Out-of-Touch Elites?

Just how disconnected is the business elite and Washington policy class from the way most Americans actually experience the U.S. economy?

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Bernie Sanders: Tackling America’s Biggest “Rackets”

Health care, education and finance have particularly significant effects in distorting the U.S. economy.

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Five Big Challenges for the U.S. Economy

Prospects for U.S. jobs and wage gains are dimming.

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7 Facts: The Rapidly Vanishing U.S. Manufacturing Worker

The share of jobs held in the manufacturing sector continue to fall in the United States.

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8 Facts: Manufacturing’s Shrinking Share of U.S. GDP

Americans have traded jobs in manufacturing for jobs in the service sector.

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Where the Manufacturing Jobs Are

What percentage of U.S. jobs does the manufacturing sector account for?

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9 Facts: Race and Poverty in America

Half a century into the war on poverty in the United States, how are minorities faring?

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America’s 50-Year War on Poverty

Which of the United States’ major racial groups has the highest poverty rate?

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Countering the Voices of U.S. Economic Extremism

The economic extremism from the far right could have set the United States far off course.

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