Author: Jared Bernstein

The House of Representatives was busy yesterday engaging in vicious class warfare against working families.Their two signature accomplishments were: 1) striking the proposed increase in the minimum wage from the Labor-HHS bill,...

An increase in the minimum wage is once again hovering around the Congressional docket, as Democrats try to wedge it into various bills while Republicans try to sink it. And once again, as reliable as clockwork, defenders and...

This past week, much to everyone’s surprise, Democrats in the House of Representatives managed to slip a proposal to increase the minimum wage into a bill funding the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services....

The recent failure in the Senate to repeal the estate tax stands as a rare victory for sane fiscal policy.  The NYT editorialized about the event under the heading “What Passes for Good News.” In fact, the...

With their focus solidly on the gay marriage amendment and estate tax repeal, the conservative movement is busy rearranging deck chairs on…well, not quite the Titanic, but on a rotting ship of state.Polls reveal that these...