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Obama v. Romney: Whose budget proposals would create more jobs? http://bit.ly/RYYDQs (via @TCFdotorg & @economicpolicy)
If Romney’s 2d round of tax cuts was revenue-neutral, not deficit-financed, his budget would lose jobs both years http://bit.ly/QFrTa8 (2/2)
Romney's budget proposals would create roughly 87,000 jobs in 2013 and result in a loss of 641,000 jobs in 2014: http://bit.ly/QFrTa8 (1/2)
Obama's budget proposals would create roughly 1.1 million jobs in 2013 and 280,000 jobs in 2014: http://bit.ly/QFrTa8
The "democratization of the stock market" that never happened: http://bit.ly/S7vNIj
Things @EconomicPolicy staff read today (and you should too!) http://bit.ly/UEQ7qj
Video: Collective bargaining and shared prosperity in Michigan | @EconomicPolicy Institute http://shar.es/uNeQ3
Collective bargaining leads to higher compensation for middle-class workers, whether they are directly covered or not: http://bit.ly/SPDyT7
The income of the typical household in the U.S. rose 7.3 percent from 1979 to 2010; in #Michigan, it fell 11.2 percent: http://bit.ly/SPDyT7
The erosion of #collectivebargaining has contributed to the failure of middle-class incomes in #Michigan to grow: http://bit.ly/SPDyT7
EPI says it's not a fiscal cliff. It's a fiscal obstacle course: http://www.epi.org/files/2012/ib3381.pdf …
Congress should not treat the components of the fiscal cliff as inseparable: http://bit.ly/SYteyD @A_Fieldhouse @TCFdotorg
Interested in income, mobility, jobs, wages, wealth, and poverty? Read "The State of Working America, 12th Ed." today: http://stateofworkingamerica.org/
@MrLasker Cornell University Press will publish a printed book and an ebook in November. Thanks for asking!
We just released "The State of Working America, 12th Ed." Available here: http://stateofworkingamerica.org/
.@EconomicPolicy's Heidi Shierholz: "The public sector has cut 680,000 jobs over the last four years" http://is.gd/X2UuxT
Persistent high unemployment is holding down wage growth – both hourly and weekly wages saw slight declines in August: http://bit.ly/RTeJoM
If emergency UI benefits expire, only around a quarter of unemployed workers will receive UI: http://bit.ly/TZkfrH
The Minimum Wage as an Anti-Inequality Policy http://bit.ly/OX7V9z
FACT: Unionized workers are 28.2% more likely to have employer-provided health insurance (via @economicpolicy) http://www.epi.org/publication/ib342-unions-inequality-faltering-middle-class/ … #p2
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