In Case You Missed It: Catch Up on Your Friday Reading
In case you missed it, here are some important reads from the past week:
Administration Appointments
Confirmation Fight Looms for Labor Secretary Nominee Thomas Perez , McClatchy
The GOP's Risky Fight Over Perez , Roll Call
Banking and Finance
The Impact of a Financial Transactions Tax on Futures Trading Volume , Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
Sneaky House Bill Would Gut Financial Reform , Mother Jones
Budget Battle
House Passes Paul Ryan's Budget , Politico
Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Ryan Budget , Politico
Congress Avoids Government Shutdown , Politico
GOP Conservatives Crave Debt Ceiling Standoff with Obama , TPM
CEOs Set Tax Reform Goal: 25 Percent Corporate Rate , The Hill
Contra the Crowd-Out Thesis: Countries that Spent More on Seniors Also Spend More on Children , CEPR
Medicare
States Could Save $73 Billion by Negotiating Medicare Drug Prices , CEPR
Economy
Is Government Spending ‘Crowding Out’ Private Sector? No , McClatchy
A Tale of Two Economies , Colorlines
Sudden Rise in Home Demand Takes Builders by Surprise , The New York Times
Education Access
Obama Cuts Student-Debt Collector Commissions to Aid Borrowers , Bloomberg
How Student Loans Are Keeping You Out of the Middle Class , Campus Progress
Student Loan Interest Rates Will Rise July 2013 Without Action by Congress , The Huffington Post
The Miserable Odds of a Poor Student Graduating from College (in 2 Graphs) , The Atlantic
Immigration
3 Shocking Examples of Guest-Worker Abuses , ABC News
Key House Conservative Backs Possible Path to Citizenship , CNN
Poll Finds 63 Percent of Latino Voters Personally Know an Undocumented Immigrant , Colorlines
Why Immigration Policy Is ‘Sexclusionary’ (and How to Fix It ), Colorlines
Retirement Security
Workers Saving Too Little to Retire , The Wall Street Journal
Wages and Income
State Leaders Reach Deal to Raise Minimum Wage , The New York Times
