Economix Blog: Nancy Folbre: Welfare Reform Revisited

Whether the growing economic insecurity of women will affect how they vote remains to be seen, an economist writes.

The current protests on Wall Street effectively call attention to the extreme and growing income inequality in the United States, an economist writes.

The current protests on Wall Street effectively call attention to the extreme and growing income inequality in the United States, an economist writes.

Economic stagnation and uncertainty about the future are creating unanticipated political alliances, an economist writes.

Rankings of the best countries for women do not incorporate the right data and fail to acknowledge the importance of child care, an economist writes.

Evaluation of teachers is too important to be left to standardized test results, an economist writes.

Green jobs may be hard to measure precisely, but they are surely growing and would benefit greatly from a bipartisan acknowledgement of that, an economist writes.

The federal government must do more to create jobs — and to ensure that women get a fair share of them, an economist writes.