Top Reads from the Fiscal Times

Walmart Changes the Debate on Minimum Wage Walmart’s announcement Thursday that it would raise its lowest-paid workers’ wages to $10 an hour by next year provoked a wide range of reactions in the public policy community, where a fight over President Obama’s call to raise the minimum to… $100 Billion Cost of Fighting ISIS Is Just the Beginning The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) typically scores congressional actions, but Authorizations to Use Military Force (AUMFs) are anything but typical. When President Obama… West Coast Port Dispute Shows Just How Fragile the U.S. Economy Has Become This week, 34 large container ships idled outside the nation’s two largest ports, in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, full of goods that could populate everything… The World’s Top ‘Financial Firefighter’ on How to Douse the Greek Debt Crisis As Greece teeters on the brink of fiscal disaster, and European Finance Ministers trade barbs through the media, Bill Rhodes looks on, knowing it didn’t have to be this… Dads Change Diapers as Moms Bring Home the Bacon Back in 2002, roughly 58 percent of fathers helped their kids with their homework or read to them at night, while 82 percent helped bathe and diaper their infants. More…