Former Clinton Labor Sec. Robert Reich proposes a deal to lift more boats. I heard him on NPR but this is his personal blogspot: A Labor Standard for Future Trade Deals: Minimum Wage at Half Median The Bushies want to renew the President's authority to negotiate trade deals (it expires at the end of June). This gives House and Senate Dems an opportunity to win a long-sought Democratic goal -- putting labor standards into all future trade deals. http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2007/02/labor-standard-for-future-trade-deal s.html <http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2007/02/labor-standard-for-future-trade-dea ls.html>
Greg Mankiws personal blogspot. Last fall Mankiw founded a Pigou Club for tax hikes on negative economic externalities. In a new study, economist Robert Shapiro, former Undersecretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs in the Clinton administration, finds that carbon taxes are a better response to the risks of global warming than emissions caps and tradable permits. Here is the executive summary <http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/Executive%20Summary.pdf> and the full report <http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/Shapiro.pdf> . http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/ <http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/> also check out Harvards profile w/ notes about his 2 year adventure with the Bush White House http://www.harvardmagazine.com/2007/03/n-gregory-mankiw.html <http://www.harvardmagazine.com/2007/03/n-gregory-mankiw.html>
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