Issue Brief
We need policies to support women as they work and care for their families.
Heather Boushey argues that with incomes stagnant and the middle class needing economic stability, debate on Social Security must include lifting the earnings cap.
Government cutbacks have already been slowing our nation’s economic growth and are now actively pulling employment downward, but the worst may be yet to come.
New U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data provide some welcome good news, as employers added 236,000 new jobs in February and the unemployment rate dropped from 7.9 percent to 7.7 percent.
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CAP Senior Economist Heather Boushey explains how middle-out economics helps bolster the U.S. economy.
Heather Boushey explains how for Britain and the United States, the best bet for the economy is on the middle.
Heather Boushey explains the economics in President Obama's latest State of the Union address.
While the Family and Medical Leave Act was an important first step to help workers manage their commitments to both their employers and their families, there is still work to be done, especially for low-wage workers.
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As President Obama enters his second term and as the 113th Congress convenes, this re-release of “Our Working Nation” takes a new look at how we can update our workplace policies to fully include women and men who combine work with family care.
President Obama's second term could spell the end of "trickle-down" and the beginning of something that might be called "middle-out" economics.
President Obama needs to focus not just on employment per se but on creating good jobs.
While the economy has been in recovery since June 2009, the level of output continues to be significantly below potential, and as a result, unemployment, remains unacceptably high. The best starting point would be a focus on growing the economy from the middle out.
Issue Brief
So-called right-to-work legislation will make it harder for unions to do their job: improving wages and working conditions. That, in turn, will weaken the middle class, which will lower our nation’s economic competitiveness.
Starving our economy of needed investments and pulling the rug out from under an already-struggling middle class will not grow our economy.
GOP partisans got their forecasts all wrong in the run-up to the election. Now they're showing their innumeracy in the policy arena, too.