Economy

Did you miss this when it was first reported? With 78 million Baby Boomers heading into retirement over the next 20-plus years, how will cuts in guaranteed monthly pension benefits to both public and private sector workers — in addition to those that have already been implemented — affect the ability of future retirees to engage in economy-sustaining consumer spending?

Next month, voters in some New Jersey towns will decide whether to raise their own property taxes beyond a state-mandated two percent cap or to continue to cut services. But are those really the only two choices?

How "good" is Mississippi, really?

How "good" is Mississippi, really?

New York Times picture of the American economy as a "victim" of various forces, including newly rising oil prices, leaves out failure of past and present policy-makers to address energy and other challenges.

New York Times picture of the American economy as a "victim" of various forces, including newly rising oil prices, leaves out failure of past and present policy-makers to address energy and other challenges.

What if, instead of persistently undercutting each other, states banded together in interstate agreements?

Pundits and policy-makers like to tout more education as the solution to stagnant incomes or widening inequality. But a closer look suggests that “the education answer” is incomplete.

A shift in demographics to relatively smaller cohorts of young people is almost never viewed as presenting an opportunity, just as the challenge of how to successfully support a greater percentage of older people without lower living standards either for them or their younger compatriots is virtually never viewed as one worth facing and winning.