Scott Fullwiler

There have been rumors circulating for months that one of the planks of Bernie's 2020 platform will be Job Guarantee. This week the Levy Institute at Bard College published a paper that could well be the intellectual underpining of that plank, Public Service Employment-- A Path To Full Employment by distinguished economists L. Randall Wray, Stephanie A.

We're trained in school to take whatever comes out of Brookings seriously, very seriously. That doesn't mean they always get it right though. Henry Aaron's piece Thursday, Tax and Spending Legislation Disarms Us Against Next Recession is... oldthink.