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
