Trump has consistently claimed that exporters, those countries who are “ripping us off,” are paying the tariffs. However, the actual data tell a different story.
Far from earning living wages, most U.S. workers have experienced wage stagnation since the 1970s--a trend largely obscured by political rhetoric and misinformation.
From the fiscal cliff to the sequester to the debt-ceiling, conservatives’ real aim in their fiscal brinkmanship is to gut Social Security and Medicare. Read more »
Steve Resnick directed his twin passions of
economic theory and econometrics toward
the goals of social change and mastery of Marxian economics. Read more »