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EPI plan: Tax the rich, strengthen social security, rebuild infrastructure

September 4, 2015 By PAI

By 2040, federal debt would be 54 percent of gross domestic product, not the present 74 percent - and less than debt proposed by right wingers.

EPI becoming major voice in national discourse on economy

September 4, 2015 By Larry Rubin

Larry Rubin of People's World interviewed Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, the premier think tank focusing on the economic condition of low- and middle-income American families.

Obama’s Alaska visit highlights climate already changed

September 4, 2015 By Marc Brodine

Each particular battle is but one part of the longer struggle to transform our energy economy, our economy as a whole, how things are produced, packaged, and distributed.

Report explores why unions have few female leaders

September 4, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

When women run organizing drives, the drives are more likely to succeed; they show women - especially minority-group women - benefit the most from being unionists.

Landmark settlement ends long-term solitary confinement in Calif. prisons

September 3, 2015 By Marilyn Bechtel

Some 2,858 inmates were reportedly held in solitary; some for 10, 20 or even 30 years, spending all but an hour or so of their day isolated in tiny cement-lined cells.