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Towards an Active(ly Functioning) Senate

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Introduction:Amidst the celebrations over the passage of health care reform, it's important to note how long and how grueling the process was to...

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Job Insurance - Solving For Inflation

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Introduction:While in previous segments of the Job Insurance series, I've been understandably focused on using job programs to attack our...

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In Defense of Public Sector Unions - Part 3

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Introduction:In part 1 of "In Defense of Public Sector Unionism," I discussed the historical roots of progressive unease with public sector...

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What Next for Big Government Liberalism?

Note: This is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Introduction:Recently, I've discussed what comes next for health care policy after the passage of the Affordable Choices Act - but there's also...

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Designing the Future - (Rapid) Buses, Streetcars, and Trains

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Introduction:I'm a huge fan of mass transit, and in the past I've written about why Federal investments in High-Speed Rail need to go...

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Economic Liberty vs. Industrial Democracy

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Every so often, there are trial balloons floated about the idea of  uniting progressives and libertarians as a political bloc on issues as...

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A New Deal For California - Part 1 (Full Employment)

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Introduction:The current state of California politics can be summed up in a simple comparison: in the Republican gubernatorial primaries, we see...

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After Health Care Reform - State-Level Single-Payer

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Introduction:In the wake of the passage of the Affordable Choices Act into law, there are a lot of questions about how we go on from here....

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A New Deal For California - Part 2 (Democracy and Revenue)

Note - this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Introduction:In part 1 of "A New Deal for California," I argued that Democrats needed to put forward a stronger message about what we wanted to...

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Political Parties as Thinking Engines

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Introduction: The passage of Proposition 14 in California, establishing a top-two "blanket" or "jungle" primary, is further proof that...

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Front Line of Defense - Rebuilding Unemployment Insurance (2nd TRP Policy...

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project (TRP).Post over the jump!

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Budget-Neutral Jobs Policy vs. Irrational Austerity

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project (TRP)!Introduction:Recently, the Senate attempted for the second time to pass a small jobs bill. The American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act...

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New Deal For California - Part 3 (Educate and Punish)

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Introduction:In part 1 of a New Deal for California, I discussed why any effort to rebuild the state must begin with a frontal assault on high...

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Green Economy and the Problem of Class

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Introduction:It is in the very nature of a political alliance that there are tensions between the various constitutive elements. If political...

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The Curse of Self-Liquidation (Jobs vs. Public Works)

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Introduction:In any discussion about jobs legislation, it is absolutely guaranteed that eventually the debate will focus on the question of what...

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Rethinking Economic Liberty, pt. 2 - Positive Liberty

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Introduction:In "Economic Liberty vs. Industrial Democracy," I raised the issue that the progressive sense of "economic liberty" is actually...

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Down With the Laffer Curve - Individual v. Social Consumption

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Introduction:The power of ideas to define the range of the possible and the acceptable can be seen in the fact that, despite nearly four years of...

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Job Insurance - The Problem With "Temporary" Stimulus

Note: This is a cross-post from The Realignment ProjectIntroduction:Struggles over public policy take place on two levels – the day-to-day conflict over specific policies (should tax cuts be extended...

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A Social Minimum for the 21st Century

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Introduction:There is something fundamentally schizophrenic about the way that conservatives claiming that poverty doesn't matter because of...

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Thinking About Tomorrow - Guaranteed Minimum Income vs. Right to a Job

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Introduction:The Realignment Project often focuses on the furthest reaches of public policy - the big picture, the long term, the very edge of...

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Putting It (Back?) On the Agenda: Poverty

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow TRP on Facebook.Introduction:Back in what turned out to be the halcyon days of 2007, policy types were actually beginning to talk about...

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Public Sector Aesthetics - Why They Matter

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook.Introduction:One of the intellectual shortcomings of progressives, and friends of the public sector more broadly, is that...

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Industrial Policy - It Actually Works (For Autos)!

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow TRP on Facebook!Introduction:When the first generation of historians begin their work on the Obama Administration, one of the more...

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A New Deal for California - (After the Elections) What Now (for Finance and...

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:With the belated victory of Kamala Harris as Attorney General, the full results of the 2010 election are in...

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Fiscal Policy By Dummies: A Progressive Review of Deficit Plans

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:Following the on-going drama of the Deficit Commission - which just adjourned without even voting on its own...

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Rebuilding The Public University: The U.C - What/Who's It For?

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:With the U.C Regents' recent 8% fee hike (on top of the 32% hike from the previous  year) and the more...

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A Bailout for the Labor Market

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:As the third year of recession ends, the scale of the task of undoing the social and economic damage of the...

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High-Speed Rail in an Age of Ideology

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook.Introduction:To many, the decisions of the recently-elected governors of New Jersey (to reject Federal money for a second...

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Beyond Protection v. Liberalization - Thinking Historically About Trade and...

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Introduction:In about two years of blogging at TRP (and another two years' policy-blogging elsewhere), I've never discussed trade. It's not...

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Psychology of Public Policy – Social Insurance

Note: this is a cross-post with The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:The current state of American public policy can best be described as a stalemate: progressives have been...

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Classic TRP: In Defense of Public Sector Unionism

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on  Facebook!In honor of the public sector workers of Wisconsin and their struggle to maintain their human right to organize, I'm...

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In Honor of the Workers of Wisconsin: Classic TRP – In Defense of Public...

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook.Introduction:Continuing our re-posting of The Realignment Project's series on public sector unions, here's part 2, in...

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In Honor of the Workers of Wisconsin: Classic TRP – In Defense of Public...

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:The last installment in The Realignment Program's re-posting of its series on public employee unions is here,...

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Psychology of Public Policy: Learning from the Stimulus

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:One of the great ironies of the Obama administration so for is that one of its greatest accomplishments, the...

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Hunting the Elephant in the Room: Inequality (Part I)

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Sometimes in the history of public policy, an intellectual critical mass on how to deal with a problem is achieved in...

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Hunting the Elephant in the Room: Inequality (Part II - Taxes)

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:In part 1 of "Hunting the Elephant in the Room," I discussed the emerging  critical mass in inequality...

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Hunting the Elephant in the Room: Inequality (Part III - Transfers and Pre-Tax)

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!In part 1, I discussed the emerging intellectual critical mass on inequality; in part 2, I discussed how our tax system...

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Psychology of Public Policy - IHSS As a Model for a New Welfare State

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!(For previous parts in this series, see here)One tricky dilemma that progressives have had to face about the welfare state...

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Government in the Long Run - Infrastructure

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:If there is a common malaise of our time, it's short-term thinking in an era when long-term problems loom...

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Education Reform - the Fix is In

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:In any other area of public policy where we see rich hedge-funders providing government agencies with private...

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Psychology of Public Policy - Planning vs. Provision

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:All political movements at their core face an internal tension between conflicting tenets of their ideology....

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De-commodifying Housing

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:If the Great Recession has one common thread that links the U.S, much of the E.U (Ireland, Spain, the U.K),...

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Living in the Age of Magical Austerity Thinking

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address diagnosed the essential weirdness of recessions: "our...

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Beyond the American Jobs Act - Labor Demand Policy

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project.Introduction:One of the oddest flaws in American public policy is our persistent belief that unemployment and poverty can be dealt with in the...

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Who Are the (X) Percent?

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook here.Introduction:The emergence of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has, if nothing else, has led to a welcome shift in political...

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Reining In the Bond Markets – And Knowing Is Half the Battle…

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:If the slow-motion meltdown of the Euro has taught us anything in the last few months, it's that the idea of...

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Reining in the Bond Markets - Public Policy in a Context of Ideological Capture

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:In my last piece, I discussed the irrational nature of how the bond markets have reacted to the financial...

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New Urbanism and Industrial Policy – Toeing the Triple Line

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:In the past, I’ve written about the way in which new urbanism needs to do a better job attending to issues of...

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A Wagner Act for the Public Sector

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:The sad reality of the recent spat of right-to-work laws, collective bargaining bans, anti-picketing laws,...

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Labor Market Policy - Tackling the Pyramid of Inequality

Note: this is a cross-post from The Realignment Project. Follow us on Facebook!Introduction:It's somewhat out of vogue to talk about the quality of jobs and the shape of the labor market at a time when...

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