By Rachel Goldfarb, originally published on Next New Deal
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Poor Parents Need Work-Life Balance Too (The Nation)
Michelle Chen says that without the flexibility of scheduling offered by white-collar jobs, workers in the service industries face volatile schedules that disrupt family lives.
Fast-Food Workers Intensify Fight for $15 an Hour (NYT)
At the largest convention of fast-food workers, Steven Greenhouse reports that workers approved escalated tactics, drawing on the nonviolent civil disobedience of the Civil Rights Movement.
Close the Tax Loophole on Inversions (WaPo)
Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew explains the need for immediate action to reform the tax code to limit companies' ability to avoid taxes by merging with foreign companies.
Fed’s Targeting of Asset Bubbles Leads to Contradictions (AJAM)
Bubbles might be necessary to obtain full employment, writes Philip Pilkington, but limiting bubbles is among the Federal Reserve's goals. Higher deficits or lower inequality could help.
New on Next New Deal
Two Tiers of College Tuition? Not on This Campus
Mohanned Abdelhameed, Vice President of the San Bernardino Valley Community College chapter of the Campus Network, explains why students rejected two-tiered tuition pricing models.
Inequality Could Spark a Second Civil War
In his speculation for the Next American Economy initiative, Roosevelt Institute Fellow Dorian Warren imagines a future in which national cohesion has disintegrated and a one-party civil oligarchy has taken control.
Quick Thoughts on Ryan's Poverty Plan: What Are the Risks?
Roosevelt Institute Fellow Mike Konczal says that Paul Ryan's wholesale adoption of the President's plan for the Earned Income Tax Credit shows the value of pushing further to the left.