ecause anyone thinks it's the sole source of problems in Michigan or anywhere else. In late 2013, just before NAFTA turned 20, Jeff Faux, founder of the Economic Policy Institute, wrote an assessment of what NAFTA had meant. He called it "A Template for Neoliberal Globalization," and highlighted four main ways it had impacte

he Walmart fortune had a net worth equivalent to the bottom 41.5 percent of Americans combined in 2010, according to an analysis from Josh Bivens at the Economic Policy Institute. While income inequality may be great for those reaping the big bucks at the top, it's likely hurting Americans overall. Between 2009 and 2011 wit

largest shareholders. The wealth of the Walton family now exceeds the wealth of the bottom 40 percent of American families combined, according to the Economic Policy Institute. And as Robert Reich asks, how can Walmart expect to continue to show fat profits when most of its customers are on a downward economic escalator? R

his comfort zone: cheerfully delivered disinformation about domestic policy. That means the economy suffers when government cuts back. A report by the Economic Policy Institute examined the effect of recent cutbacks at the state and local level — including direct loss of government jobs and indirect loss of suppliers' jobs

s like. Our wealth has become so skewed that the top 1 percent possesses a greater collective worth than the entire bottom 90 percent, according to the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. This inequality is a central challenge for the United States today and should be getting far more attention in this presidential cam