by Leo Gerard | May 8, 2012 | Blog
In a famous “Laugh In” sketch, Lily Tomlin, playing arrogant operator Ernestine, telephones a customer to demand payment of $23.64 for three calls to Topeka and threatens to send a burly serviceman to the customer’s house to rip his phone out of the wall if he doesn't...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 7, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
As the political establishment prepares to do battle Friday over what is likely to be another mediocre jobs report, talk-show host Tavis Smiley this afternoon called for a living-wage jobs program as part of an all-out offensive against poverty in America. "What we...
by Richard Eskow | May 7, 2012 | Blog
And another one bites the dust. French President Nicolas Sarkozy just became the latest politician to lose his job because he wouldn't let economic experience—or political common sense—sway him from the path of austerity. Will Sarkozy's downfall help Democrats learn...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 7, 2012 | Blog
As the Senate prepares to vote Tuesday on legislation that will stop a scheduled doubling of the rate on Stafford student loans on July 1, conservatives are engaged in a shameless (and shameful) effort to detail the effort. That's why, this afternoon and Tuesday...
by | May 7, 2012 | Blog, Too Big To Jail
Must read of the morning, by Peter J Boyer and Peter Schweitzer at Newsbeast: Despite his populist posturing, the president has failed to pin a single top finance exec on criminal charges since the economic collapse. Are the banks too big to jail—or is Washington’s...
