by Dave Johnson | Jun 8, 2012 | Blog, Economy
I attended a blogger meeting with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) to talk about Americans for Tax Fairness, a coalition that has formed to help win the coming fight over the expiring Bush tax cuts. As you remember, two years ago the Republicans held unemployment...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 8, 2012 | Blog
Plenty of things have been bothering me in the wake of the Wisconsin recall election. But one that particularly "sticks in my craw" is what appears to be the developing conventional wisdom that recall elections should hardly ever happen, and are appropriate only in...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 8, 2012 | Blog
Perhaps the best strategy for avoiding having to settle for a bad "grand bargain" on the federal deficit that would shortchange the pillars of economic security for struggling households is to jump off the feared "fiscal cliff" at the end of the year and push Congress...
by Steven Capozzola | Jun 8, 2012 | Blog
We've reported frequently on the abusive labor practices and suicides at Apple's Foxconn factory in China. Essentially, Apple outsources the production of its iPad and iPhone to a massive labor facility in Chengdu, China. On the plus side for Apple, labor...
by Bill Scher | Jun 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: 40M Underwater Homeowners? Organize. OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "The number of people living in underwater homes is larger than the number of people living in twenty-two states and the District of Columbia. The residents of those states are...
