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A month ago the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ran a column by Sheldon Lubar arguing:" The Age of Austerity is also what lies ahead for al...

The While House released an updated estimate of the federal budget deficit, which shows it now totals $1.6 trillion or 11.2% of gross domest...

The New York times reports that unemployment is soaring worldwide. Worldwide job losses could hit 50 million by the end of 2009 Even highly ...

The Senate's " compromise " on the federal stimulus plan is a betrayal of the nation's commitment to its people and the w...

The U.S. economy entered a recession a year ago this month, the panel that dates American business expansions said today. The official decla...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MJS) is nothing but consistent when it comes to editorializing on labor relations. While it expresses regret...

Noble Prize winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman writes that now is not the time to worry about deficits. One can on...

During the last eight years. almost all of the nation's income growth went to executives and investors. As a result, while the productiv...

While economists debate whether the current economic slowdown is a recession, Wisconsinites are increasingly grappling with the nasty effect...

Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, writes : President Bush says that the economy is not in a recession....

The US economy has shed 300,000 private sector jobs over the past three months. Wisconsin lost 8,600 manufacturing positions last year and ...

Only a few months ago, the Journal Sentinel editorialized that the Fed might need to raise interest rates. It's good to see the Board ha...

Last week, before we learned about the loss of another 80,000 jobs, I wrote that at least 25 states are expecting budget shortfalls for the ...

The New York Times reports today that the nation's economic problems have spread well beyond the collapse of the subprime housing market...

Barbara Ehrenreich writes that far removed from Wall Street, most Americans have been living in their own personal recession for years. Read...

Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel prize winner, a professor of economics at Columbia and the author, most recently, of “Making Globalization Wo...

Paul Krugman explains how Alan Greenspan and top Bush administration officials' rigid commitment to free market ideology contributed ...