by Bill Scher | Mar 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Who Is Keeping DeMarco In Charge Of Housing? OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "George W. Bush brought a far-right ideologue named Edward DeMarco into the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which controls Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and therefore has power...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 2, 2012 | Blog
Republicans love to say that nothing's more important cutting the Federal deficit. So why is Sen. Richard Shelby wasting $28 billion of taxpayer money? Shelby's used parliamentary tricks to put more than half of the nation's mortgages under the rule of an unelected...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 1, 2012 | Blog, Economy
What we have here is a failure to communicate. Poll after poll shows that voters are concerned most of all about jobs and the economy. Yet in Washington and on the campaign trail, attention has turned to deficits and how to get our books in order. Voters live in the...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 1, 2012 | Blog
Recent stories about the conditions of Apple's contractors in China have opened many people's eyes about where our jobs, factories, industries and economy have been going, and why. The stories exposed that workers live 6-to-12-to-a-room in dormitories, get rousted at...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 1, 2012 | Blog
Today, we are calling on the acting head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Edward DeMarco, to either move or be removed: Stop standing in the way of the mortgage relief millions of homeowners need. Join us by sending a message to DeMarco: Allow sensible mortgage...
