Opinion Pieces

•  “Obamacare Is Doing Well, But Under Attack,” News Journal and Delawareonline.com, Wilmington, DE, March 17, 2015.
• “Affordable Care Act Due For a Checkup,” News Journal and Delawareonline.com, Wilmington DE, October 9, 2014.
• “Increasing the Minimum Wage: Not Perfect But a Useful Step,” News Journal and Delawareonline.com, Wilmington, DE, March 23, 2014.
• “Obamacare Critics Misrepresenting ‘Job Killer’ Claim,” News Journal and Delawareonline.com, Wilmington DE, February 20, 2014.
• “Use Wage Hike, EITC to Help Delawareans,” News Journal and Delawareonline.com, Wilmington, DE, January 14, 2014 and DelawareNewsZap.com, January 20, 2014.
• “Strengthening the Middle Class in a Skills-Based Economy,” News Journal and Delawareonline.com, Wilmington, DE, December 12, 2013.
• “Despite Problems, Two and a Half Cheers for Obamacare,” News Journal and Delawareonline.com, Wilmington, DE, November 25, 2013.
• “Obamacare Needs to Be Strengthened, Not Defunded,” News Journal and Delawareonline.com, Wilmington, DE, October 16, 2013.
• “To Not See Health Care as a Right is Un-American,” News Journal and Delawareonline.com, Wilmington, DE, September 14, 2013.
  [Note:  The title used in the newspaper version of this OP-ED is not the one I used on this OP-ED and is far stronger than I would ever use. The title I submitted was “No, Obamacare is Not Un-American.” Unlike Jim DeMint of the Heritage Foundation, whose own OP-ED piece precipitated this one, I am not in the habit of labeling people and policies “un-American.”]
• “Friends, Family are Real Faces of Health Care Reform,” News Journal and Delawareonline.com, Wilmington, DE, August 19, 2013.
  [Read it here:  true stories of real people benefitting from Obamacare.]
• “Criticism of Obama and jobs was misleading,” Letter to the Editor, News- Journal and Delawareonline.com, Wilmington, DE, August 1, 2013.
• “Deficits, Debt, Spending–Myths and Misconceptions,” News Journal and Delawareonline.com, Wilmington, DE, May 14, 2013.
• “Only One Budget Trims Costs and Brings in Revenues,” News Journal and Delawareonline.com, Wilmington, DE, April 25, 2013.
• “GOP is now the party of fiscal irresponsibility,” News Journal and Delawareonline.com, Wilmington, DE, September 21, 2012.
• “Republican Plan Would Increase Medicare Costs” Letter to the Editor, News- Journal and Delawareonline.com, Wilmington, DE, August 28, 2012.
• “Republicans Offer Nothing on Health Care Reform,” News Journal and Delawareonline.com, Wilmington, DE, July 29, 2012.
• “Romney’s Business Logic Racks Up Zeroes,” News Journal and Delawareonline.com, Wilmington, DE, March 29, 2012.
• “Adding Jobs is the Immediate Problem,” (with Laurence S. Seidman), News Journal and Delawareonline.com, Wilmington, DE, December 5, 2011.
• “Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan is Morally Reprehensible,” News Journal, Wilmington, DE,  October 20, 2011.
• “How Not to Cut the Deficit, Tea Party Style,” News Journal, Wilmington, DE, February 23, 2011.
• “Tea Party Economic Myths,” News Journal, Wilmington, DE, October 14, 2010.
• “Teen Pregnancy Part II:  What Sarah Palin Should Have Said,” News Journal, Wilmington, DE, October 11, 2008.
• “The Earned Income Tax Credit is Great – Now Let’s Improve Delaware’s Program” (with Eleanor Craig), News Journal, Wilmington, DE, March 16, 2007.