Dean Baker for Truthout: The economy doesn't get a gold star for a balanced budget or lower deficit. In fact, lower deficits can inflict devastating damage on the economy by reducing demand, leading to millions of workers becoming unemployed.
Net neutrality backers in Congress are still struggling to compile enough votes to repeal Ajit Pai's new rules, despite the fact that they are deeply unpopular.
Kenneth J. Saltman is a professor in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Ph.D. program at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He is the author most recently of Scripted Bodies: Corporate Power, Smart Technologies, and the Undoing of Public Education (Routledge 2016).
