by Bill Scher | Mar 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: The Debit Card...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 24, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Jamie Dimon, chief executive of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co (that guy again?), recently said that his bank would add new customer fees if it couldn't continue to charge exorbitant hidden fees for the use of debit cards. He was sorry, Dimon said, "but, of course, the...
by Mary Bottari | Mar 23, 2011 | Blog
The reign of lawlessness continues in Wisconsin. Last week, a local court issued a temporary restraining order blocking the implementation of Governor Scott Walker's radical proposal to do away with most collective bargaining rights for public workers and cripple...
by Bill Scher | Mar 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Rewriting Cantor's...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 23, 2011 | Blog, Economy
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Monday unveiled what his office called a “pro-growth economic plan” in a speech at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. If the speech only exemplified one of the basic definitions of "cant"—"insincere or almost meaningless...