By Rachel Goldfarb, originally published on Next New Deal
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IRS Failing to Regulate Dark-Money Political Spending (Real News Network)
Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow Thomas Ferguson explains how reduced funding for the IRS is preventing the agency from properly determining what groups need to report political spending.
3 Reasons Subsidized Jobs Should Be Part of an Economic Mobility Agenda (CAP)
Rachel West says that subsidized job programs are effective at bringing people who have been left out into the labor force, even in non-recessionary times.
It’s a Reasonable Goal: Wages That Pay the Bills (Boston Globe)
Steven Syre questions why public support is so much higher for groups fighting to maintain their hard-won living wages than it is for fast food workers seeking the same level of stability.
Obama Plans New Scrutiny for Contractors on Labor Practices (NYT)
A new executive order will require federal contractors to disclose any labor violations from the past three years, and give preference to cleaner records, report Steven Greenhouse and Michael D. Shear.
Why the House of Representatives Just Voted to Sue President Obama (Vox)
Neither legislative body has ever sued the President for failing to enforce the law, explains Andrew Prokop, so this has broad implications for who controls how policy is implemented.
New on Next New Deal
Leadership Wanted: The College Access Crisis Needs You, Mayor de Blasio
Kevin Stump, Leadership Director for the Roosevelt Institute | Campus Network, says that Mayor de Blasio must invest in programs that increase college access alongside those that help at-risk students.
In the Artisanal Economy, Work Is What You Make of It
In his speculation for the Next American Economy project, Harvard economics professor Lawrence Katz suggests that an economy of craftsmanship could create higher wages out of low-end work.