How a New Economics Went Mainstream (with Suzanne Kahn)
Over the past few decades, economists have gathered a lot of empirical evidence supporting the underlying truth of middle-out economics: that a thriving middle class is the cause of economic growth. O...
30 Jan 202437min
Revisiting the Child Tax Credit (with Wendy Bach)
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has agreed to expand the Child Tax Credit again, but it will be smaller than the pandemic-era credit was. If this version of the Child Tax Credit is passed by Congress ...
23 Jan 202445min
Medicare Drug Price Negotiations with (Margarida Jorge)
The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most opaque industries in America, and they take advantage of this lack of transparency by setting ever-higher prices for lifesaving prescription drugs like i...
16 Jan 202444min
Three Economic Issues that Could Shape the 2024 Elections
National elections are won and lost on the economy. Of course they are: the state of the economy affects individuals' job security, income levels, access to healthcare, education, and overall quality ...
9 Jan 202434min
Seizing the Middle Out Moment
When Pitchfork Economics was started, our ideas about economic cause and effect were way outside the economic mainstream, and so much has changed in the last ten years. The economic world is shifting ...
2 Jan 202420min
Middle-Out Wins
2023 was a big year for middle-out policy and research, so we are recapping some of the biggest middle-out moments that are improving people's lives and helping us close the book on America’s neoliber...
26 Des 202325min
How the UAW strike benefits all workers (with Kate Bahn)
Business reporting on labor unions tends to focus on speculation about how much striking workers might hurt the economy. But the reality is that successful strikes have a long-term positive impact on ...
19 Des 202332min
How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism (with Clara Mattei)
We already know that many mainstream economists advocate against the economic interests of the majority of working Americans and for the benefit of a tiny handful of super-rich people and corporations...
12 Des 202347min
