Oct. 24, 2012 — As explained in the accompanying article, the main reason motivating an employer to move to a defined contribution system is to reduce its own cost curve for employee benefits below...view
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Banking, Economy
Sept. 26, 2012 — So how much pump-priming could America’s largest corporations achieve if they were to dig into their cash and cash equivalents as well as their short-term investments? Remapping...view
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Elections
June 20, 2012 — Based on an analysis of recently-released Census Bureau data, this visualization allows you to combine multiple demographic features — race and ethnicity, sex, age, and educational...view
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Elections, Politics
May 2, 2012 — 150 years ago, the Confederate states were fighting to preserve slavery. 50 years ago, those former Confederate states were fighting to preserve racial segregation. Over the course of...view
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Employment, Labor, Poverty
Apr. 11, 2012 — As observed in recent news coverage, “lawmakers are facing growing pressure to raise the minimum wage, which was last increased at the federal level to $7.25 an hour in July 2009.”...view
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Pensions, State government
Apr. 4, 2012 — The woes of public pension funds have generally been placed squarely at the feet of public employees, who are often accused of having bloated pension packages that are neither...view
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Banking
Mar. 7, 2012 — There has been a lot of reporting in recent weeks about how big banks have fallen on hard times. One would be forgiven for getting the impression that these banks are not doing much...view
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Income inequality, Taxes
Mar. 5, 2012 — Average income of the top 1 percent of Americans, along with their share of total income, is recovering more after the Great Recession than is the case for other Americans, according...view
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Corporate influence, Taxes
Feb. 22, 2012 — The Obama administration plans to ask Congress to close some corporate tax loopholes, but to lower rates at the same time — to a top rate of 28 percent from the current 35 percent,...view
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Economy, Labor
Jan. 25, 2012 — How much of the gains in manufacturing productivity in the period after World War II have redounded to the benefits of workers as reflected in their compensation? Until the early...view