In case you missed it, here are Progressive Fix’s highlights from the past week on economic and social policy:
- PPI Policy Memo, “The Morning After Health Care Reform: A Progressive Fiscal Wake-Up Call,” Scott Winship
If health care reform is enacted in the coming months, progressives will need to focus sincerely on a problem to which they have paid only lip service over the last few months, one that reform is sure to exacerbate: the perilous fiscal health of the federal government. Read more…
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“Facing the Hunger Problem,” Joel Berg
Yesterday’s release of the USDA’s report on hunger in America was the latest dismal dispatch from the recession’s frontlines. Read more…
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“Candor We Can Believe In,” Will Marshall
Rhee is adamant about putting the needs of Washington’s public school children, who are overwhelmingly poor and minority, above the interests of adults in the District’s political-educational complex who resist fundamental changes in a system that’s manifestly failing. Read more…
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“A Chart That Should Keep Progressives Up at Night,” Scott Winship
Progressives, in short, are going to be caught between a rock and a hard place: we will either have to find a way to convince the electorate to go along with massive tax hikes, with all of the electoral risk that entails, or we will have to come up with a plan to make equally massive cuts to entitlements that are likely to also be unpopular and that may do significant harm if not thought through carefully. Read more…
Tags: Budget, Education, Health care, Hunger and nutrition, Taxes
