By Rachel Goldfarb, originally published on Next New Deal
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Chicago Is Your Big (Friendly) Brother (Bloomberg View)
Roosevelt Institute Fellow Susan Crawford explains Chicago's new plan to collect and make public data that could improve local quality of life, like precise pollution levels.
Does He Pass the Test? (NYRB)
Timothy Geithner frames his memoir as a success story of avoiding another Great Depression, and Paul Krugman says that ignores the question of whether things could have been better.
Massachusetts Passes The Highest State Minimum Wage In The Country (ThinkProgress)
The Massachusetts legislature has passed a law raising the minimum wage to $11 an hour by 2017, and the governor is expected to sign the bill soon, Bryce Covert reports.
Detroit Pension Fund Urges 'Yes' Vote on Bankruptcy Plan (Reuters)
Karen Pierog writes that the police and firefighters' fund is urging members to approve this grand bargain, which reduces cost-of-living increases, for fear of larger cuts.
- Roosevelt Take: Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow Rob Johnson says that big money in politics encourages pension underfunding.
Awaiting the Supreme Court decision on Aereo (Marketplace)
Dan Gorenstein speaks to Susan Crawford, who says this case about TV broadcasting rights could have wide implications for cable television payment models.
Higher Taxes Do Not Kill Jobs (AJAM)
Job growth in 2013 was concentrated in places that raised taxes or already had high taxes. David Cay Johnston says this confirms that taxes aren't job killers.
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What the History of the World Wars Can Tell Us About the Deeper Struggles at Work in Iraq
Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow David Woolner reflects on previous U.S. efforts to spread democracy.