by Bill Scher | Aug 10, 2012 | 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: Romney's Shifty...
by Steven Capozzola | Aug 10, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
It's interesting to see the U.S. competing head-to-head with China for the top of the Olympic medal standings. As Andrew Weber points out in USA Today, for decades this close competition was instead the exclusive battle of the U.S. vs. the USSR. But times have...
by | Aug 9, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. You would think that Phil Gramm -- the former Republican Texas senator who was one of the authors of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget process from the late 1980s -- would know how the law bearing his name works. At the...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 9, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
Everyone agrees that there is only one question on voters' minds: who has a plausible plan to put this economy on the right track? Yet in the most expensive election in recorded history, candidates up and down the ticket aren't offering much of an answer. The...
