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Sunday, March 01, 2015

Today's Must Read: Speaking of the Economy

Because everyone's always talking about the economy, there's a very interesting post by Tom Sullivan at Hullabaloo:

Demos research associate Sean McElwee's post this week reviews economic research showing that "Democrats make the pie bigger for everyone, while Republicans redistribute income toward the rich and whites." But you already knew that. Still, McElwee's link-filled column at Aljazeera compiles a lot of supporting studies in one convenient location.

Examining changes in poverty, unemployment and income under every president since 1948, political scientists Zoltan Hajnal and Jeremy Horowitz found that blacks, Latinos and Asians fare better under Democratic presidents. But so do whites[.]

Some very interesting information, including a long section on what Democrat Mark Dayton has done for Minnesota, following Republican Tim Pawlenty's abject failure to do anything -- well, anything positive. (Sadly, Illinois' new governor, Bruce Rauner, seems determined to follow in the footsteps of Pawlenty and the Republican party's latest great white hope, Scott Walker (R-Koch Industries).)

It all just bears out something I've noticed: Republicans, eager to establish the state religion of voodoo economics, manage to screw up the economy, and then Democrats have to come in and fix it.

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