Feb. 22, 2012 — The Obama administration plans to ask Congress to close some corporate tax loopholes, but to lower rates at the same time — to a top rate of 28 percent from the current 35 percent,...view
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Economy, Labor
Jan. 25, 2012 — How much of the gains in manufacturing productivity in the period after World War II have redounded to the benefits of workers as reflected in their compensation? Until the early...view
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Infrastructure, Role of government
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Dec. 21, 2011 — Building construction is often accompanied by great fanfare. The announcement of a project, the breaking of...view
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NYC
Nov. 16, 2011 — Recently, the New York City Independent Budget Office (“IBO”) put together a wealth of materials on staffing at New York City government agencies over the last 30 years. This...view
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Employment
Nov. 16, 2011 — The chart below, using “Alternative Measures of Labor Force Underutilization for States” produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows the average annual percentage of the...view
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Banking
Nov. 16, 2011 — After three years of deliberations, the Financial Stability Board at the Bank of International Settlements recently released the names of 29 financial institutions it had deemed to be...view
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Corporate influence, Globalization, Labor
Oct. 25, 2011 — This visualization originally appeared in connection with the story Looking at a consulting firm’s facade of objectivity.
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Children, Poverty
Oct. 19, 2011 — Child poverty in the United States has never been a pretty picture, and it has gotten worse over the course of the last several years. To put the current picture is some...view
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Government services, Role of government
Oct. 5, 2011 — Looking at the size of the federal workforce without taking population size into account is very misleading. After all, it is true on a superficial level that 110 workers are more than...view
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Employment, Labor
Sept. 21, 2011 — General Motors and the United Auto Workers just agreed on a new four-year contract. To try and put the agreement in context, we utilized historical wage data provided by the UAW....view