The Goal Of Long-run Economic Growth Without

Raising The Minimum Wage, As President Obama Proposed In His State Of The Union Address, Tends To Be More Popular With The General Public Than With Economists.

The Very First Email I Got [was] From A Women's Group Saying 'we Don't Want This Stimulus Package To Just Create Jobs For Burly Men.'

Tax Increases Appear To Have A Very Large Sustained And Highly Significant Negative Impact On Output. Since Most Of Our Exogenous Tax Changes Are In Fact Reductions, The More Intuitive Way To Express This Result Is That Tax Cuts Have Very Large And Persistent Positive Output Effects

If You Look At The Studies Coming Out Of The Congressional Budget Office, The Number One Thing That's Going To Blow A Hole In The Deficit As We Go Forward 20, 30 Years Is Government Spending On Healthcare.

Most Arguments For Instituting Or Raising A Minimum Wage Are Based On Fairness And Redistribution. Even If Workers Are Getting A Competitive Wage, Many Of Us Are Deeply Disturbed That Some Hard-working Families Still Have Very Little.