Jim Tankersley covers economic policy for The Washington Post. Before joining The Post, he wrote for National Journal, covering the breakdown in American job creation, the decline in economic mobility and the failure of policy makers to adapt to an increasingly complex set of global economic challenges.
The Great Recession and the subsequent recovery from it have deepened the wedge between the very wealthy and everyone else in America, plunging the poor deeper into debt and wiping out tw...
There are two big explanations for why rural counties, small towns and even medium-sized cities have fallen behind America's largest, most innovative metro areas when it comes to job grow...
An incredibly simplistic argument breaks out every time liberal groups push to raise the federal minimum wage. We'll lose jobs, opponents say. No we won't, supporters say.
