Posted on 16 February 2011. Tags: American Dream, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Dean Baker, Fairness, Financial Crisis, Greed, Middle Class, Pensions, Progressive Taxes, Public Workers, States, The Rich, Unions
You’ve heard (and, in some cases, unfortunately, been persuaded) that "generous" pensions given to public employees has caused great deficits in pensions and state budgets. It’s nonsense. And here are the facts to prove it. The Center for Economic and Policy Research has a very important study out. It must be given wide […]
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Posted on 22 January 2011. Tags: American Dream, Fairness, Financial Crisis, Greed, Middle Class, Pensions, Progressive Taxes, Public Workers, States, The Rich, Unions
Each day brings a stupefying new chapter in the class warfare underway in America. Today, it’s the unfathomable idea that regular people who had worked their entire lives serving the public should now be effectively cast out into the cold, their pensions ripped up. But, what we need to connect is this: there is […]
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