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<title><![CDATA[Josh Barro - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20428.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Josh Barro]]></description><category domain="20428">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Need To Clean House]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/democrats-need-to-clean-house/ar-AA1zQ2WC?ocid=BingNewsSerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the University of Chicago'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Institute of Politics last week, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' was nearly apoplectic'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' about'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the diversity spectacles at the recent Democratic National Committee meeting'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'where outgoing chair Jaime Harrison delivered a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Harris&rsquo; Plan Is Economically Dumb but Politically Smart]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/harris-s-plan-is-economically-dumb-but-politically-smart/ar-AA1oVtT0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Until recently, the Kamala Harris campaign seemed allergic to setting a policy agenda. Finally, the campaign is starting to roll out its economic platform, and the substance likely won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t appeal to many people who actually know about economics. But it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s hard for me to argue with...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Justice Sotomayor Should Retire Now]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/sonia-sotomayor-should-retire-now/ar-BB1k5iOC</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Universities Are Not on the Level]]></title>
							<link>https://www.joshbarro.com/p/universities-are-not-on-the-level</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Academics should think more about what their industry has done to lose the trust of Americans]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gamblers Say Trump Is Almost Even Odds. Don't Bet on It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gamblers-say-trump-is-almost-tied-with-biden-don-t-bet-on-it/ar-BB1akIMx</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Financial markets are supposed to be great aggregators of dispersed information. No one individual may know everything about a company'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s future performance, but because the stock market richly rewards people for being right and for knowing something other market participants'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' do...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If This Is How Disney Looks, How Can Schools Reopen?]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/what-reopened-disney-world-teaches-us-about-reopening-school.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Limited capacity may be possible at theme parks and retail stores, but it probably won't work at schools.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Did Washington Post Get Sue Schafer Fired?]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/why-did-the-washington-post-get-this-woman-fired.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The respected newspaper outed and shamed a private citizen for past offensive behavior. But did anyone even want this?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Here's Where the Jobs Crisis Is Hitting Hardest]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/april-jobs-report-shows-where-crisis-is-hitting-hardest.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America's current economy misery isn't spread evenly.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[$2 Trillion Relief Package Should Work--for Now]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/the-coronavirus-stimulus-cares-act-should-work-for-now.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The unemployment expansion and loans to businesses will help keep Americans afloat, but state governments are going to need more money down the line.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Has the Conventional Wisdom Gotten Too Pessimistic?]]></title>
							<link>https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/how-long-will-the-coronavirus-shutdown-last.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The country is shutting now. But more testing should, in time, allow for more normal living.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Will Tank the Economy &amp; His Presidency]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/tweets-and-trade-war-this-is-how-trump-will-tank.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump's trade war might be headed into a self-reinforcing death spiral.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Two-Front Trade War Is Unsustainable]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/trumps-two-front-mexico-china-trade-war-is-unsustainable.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It appeared that Trump was, for once, behaving strategically on trade. Not anymore.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trade War Getting Big Enough to Hurt the Economy]]></title>
							<link>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/the-trade-war-is-getting-big-enough-to-hurt-the-economy.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The stock and bond markets are saying there might be a real problem.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Northam Shows Why Democrats Can Never Be Satisfied]]></title>
							<link>http://www.businessinsider.com/ralph-northam-medicaid-in-virginia-why-democrats-cant-ever-be-happy-2017-12</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Opinion: Ralph Northam won Virginia's gubernatorial election in a blowout despite preelection gripes from Democrats about his campaign.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Win Again, Liberals Must Stop Being So Annoying]]></title>
							<link>http://www.businessinsider.com/liberals-can-win-if-they-stop-being-so-annoying-2017-7</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats' problem isn't that they're on the wrong side of policy issues. It's that they're too ready to bother too many people about too many personal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[8 Ideas for Dems to Beat Trump on Jobs and Wages]]></title>
							<link>http://www.businessinsider.com/how-democrats-can-beat-trump-jobs-2016-12</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Exempt $11,500 of every worker's pay from payroll tax; enforce immigration laws; provide child-care and maternity leave benefits; control health costs.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cruz Will Have Tough Time Replicating Big Wis. Success]]></title>
							<link>http://www.businessinsider.com/ted-cruz-wins-wisconsin-trump-what-it-means-2016-4</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Ted Cruz posted a strong win in Wisconsin's Republican presidential primary on Tuesday. When all the votes are counted, he'll beat Donald Trump bydouble digits and take at least 33 of the state's 42 delegates.This is a big win and a better-than-expected night for Cruz. But he will have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What If We Bought Food the Way We Buy Housing?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/upshot/everyone-wants-to-be-a-homeowner-why-not-a-foodowner.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Imagine if we bought food the way we buy housing.Instead of buying the food you need right now, you would buy a contract giving you rights to a stream of food in perpetuity. Say, a contract entitling you to five pounds of chicken breasts, delivered to you every week, forever. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservatism Is the GOP's Problem]]></title>
							<link>http://www.businessinsider.com/conservatism-is-the-problem-2013-6</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What if the problem with your political party is that the policies it advocates are bad?You can't fix that problem by "rebranding" the same platform or finding younger, less-white candidates to promote it. You definitely can't fix it by leaning into your failed policies and becoming more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Must Surrender on 'Redistribution']]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-29/why-conservatives-must-surrender-on-redistribution-.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberals talk about booming incomes at the top while lower-income households barely see benefits from economic growth. Conservatives talk about a rising share of the population that depends on government benefits and a shrinking share that pays income tax.Though the frames are different,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Obama Panders to Greedy Iowans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-14/obama-panders-to-greedy-iowans.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Iowa isn't done with its reign of terror. President Barack Obama was in the state Monday, pandering to Iowans' demands for federal handouts. CBS News reports:President Obama criticized Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan for being one of the "leaders of Congress" blocking a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why &quot;You Didn't Build That&quot; Resonates]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-30/why-you-didn-t-build-that-resonates.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Chait says the president's "you didn't build that" speech revived racial resentments about redistributive fiscal policy, partly because the president was speaking in a "black dialect."Maybe this was a problem with the speech, but the key problem was much simpler: The president...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Neither the Private Nor Public Sector's Doing Fine]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-27/neither-the-private-nor-the-public-sector-is-doing-fine.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s GDP data show roughly what was expected: Real GDP growth is estimated to have been 1.5 percent in the second quarter; the first quarter growth figure was revised upward from 1.9 percent to 2.0 percent. The economy is growing, but not nearly as fast as it should be. (Note,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Should the Government Be More Like Wawa?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-21/should-the-federal-government-be-more-like-wawa-.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Mitt Romney was right, as I wrote yesterday, to praise Wawa as an innovative private firm. But Romney's point went further: Using Wawa as an example, he said the federal government needs to be more efficient and sensitive to its clients' needs.Romney is right that the federal government...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does Obama Know Why Cities Can't Hire More?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-11/why-the-public-sector-isn-t-doing-fine-.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Friday President Barack Obama spoke about why the economic recovery has been so slow. People are focusing on his gaffe -- saying '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'the private sector is doing fine'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' -- and Ezra Klein admonishes us to focus on the president's substantive point, which is that job losses in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rhode Island's Remarkable Reforms]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2012/01/manhattan-moment-democrat-raimondos-rhode-island-reforms-are-remarkable/2</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pensions are on the political agenda in nearly every state. The stock market downturn of 2008 and 2009 battered pension funds, exposed the true cost of benefit sweeteners awarded during the tech and housing booms, and left state officials searching for dollars to pour into pension funds....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Land of Delinquents: Paying the Bills in Illinois]]></title>
							<link>http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_2_illinois-budget.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This January, after two years of trying, Illinois governor Pat Quinn finally got his state's legislature to pass a large, across-the-board tax hike that will raise over $7 billion per year, or more than 20 percent of the state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s general-fund budget. The personal income tax rose from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What's Next in Wisconsin]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/261815/what-s-next-wisconsin-josh-barro</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After a long standoff, it looks highly likely that Wisconsin will enact  a law that severely restricts the scope of collective bargaining and  the ability of public-employee unions to collect dues. It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s now worth  reflecting on how this change is and is not significant.First,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Pension-Cost Explosion Hits the States]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/page/dodging-the-pension-disaster-preview</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When Dan Liljenquist began his first term as  a Utah state senator in January 2009, his financial acumen quickly  earned him serious legislative responsibilities. A former management  consultant for Bain &amp; Company, Liljenquist was appointed by the Utah  senate president, Michael...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ignore the Union Head Behind the Curtain]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2011/01/05/ignore_the_union_leader_behind_the_curtain_98818.html#</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Josh Barro</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As discontent with public employee compensation grows, the latest fashion from the Left is to claim that public workers are being scapegoated. Yesterday, Gawker even ran a piece called "The Plan to Blame Unions for Everything," arguing that the real causes of states' fiscal woes are...]]></description>
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