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The Nation profiles the work of the Levy Institute, including its proposal of a job guarantee to ensure full employment.

The Nation, February 2, 2015. All Rights Reserved. By many measures, the American economy has recovered from the 2008 implosion. The stock market is soaring, housing values in many markets have rebounded and GDP is growing at a healthy rate of more than 4 percent. Compared to Spain and Greece, where debt, mass unemployment and […]

The New York Times, January 28, 2015. All Rights Reserved. The reason for the meteoric rise of Syriza is clear. The Greek electorate has had enough of the imposition of the harsh austerity measures that are behind the bailout loan agreements that have been in effect since May 2010 when Greece was on the brink […]

Al Jazeera America, January 26, 2015. All Rights Reserved. Greece’s socialist left has won power. Now it needs to wield it. For Syriza, the left-wing, anti-austerity party that seized control of the government in Sunday’s snap parliamentary elections, that means following through on its number one campaign promise: to renegotiate the terms of Greece’s economic bailout with […]

Social Europe, January 26, 2015. All Rights Reserved. In a time when in Paris Marine Le Pen is “Ante Portas”, when xenophobic populists are marching through the streets of Dresden, when in London the UKIP sets the tone for an ever more anti-European hysteria, and when in Helsinki the Finnish government becomes the most ardent […]