In recent decades, American productivity growth has slowed. Yale University's Jacob Hacker has a possible explanation: the country’s outdated and deteriorating infrastructure. Hacker, co-author of ...

Yale political scientist Jacob S. Hacker has been awarded the 2020 Robert M. Ball Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Insurance. The National Academy of Social Insurance presents the award ...

Jacob S. Hacker is co-director of the Center for Health, Economic, and Family Security at U.C. Berkeley, and a fellow at the New America Foundation. He recently edited Health at Risk: America's Ailing ...

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University selected Jacob Hacker as a Radcliffe Institute fellow for 2018-2019. Hacker is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science and ...

Boaters participate in the "Make america Great Again" parade as they celebrate US President Donald Trump's 74th birthday on the Detroit River in Detroit, Michigan on June 13, 2020. - The parade is ...

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How did the Republican Party win so many working-class votes in 2016 while having policies that favored the top one percent? That’s what Yale political science professor JACOB HACKER, and his ...

Jacob Hacker is a young and prolific professor of political science at Yale University whose latest book, The Great Risk Shift, is being touted by the left-leaning “Campaign for America’s Future” as ...

I interviewed Jacob Hacker (the Stanley Resor professor of political science in Yale), and Paul Pierson (the John Gross professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley) ...

Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent media organization based in Washington, D.C. Our mission: To preserve democracy and champion good governance through honest journalism and ...

American democracy is sick, in the view of a local democracy doctor. His prescription: more democracy. And that doesn’t mean just voting. The democracy doctor is Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker.