by Bill Scher | Sep 17, 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: Bernanke's Wake Up...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 16, 2012 | Blog
In any society where wealth and income concentrate overwhelmingly at the top, the affluent will almost always come to sneer at public services and the men and women who provide them. In Chicago, those men and women have pushed back. Last year state lawmakers in...
by | Sep 14, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. Bruce Bartlett emailed me to say that, rather than cancel the sequester as I recommended, we should get the band back together and reconstitute the anything-but-super committee to give it another chance to come up with a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: So Who Is It That Cares About The Deficit Anyway? Digby via Hullabaloo: "Your reading assignment is this great piece in the New York Review of Books by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson entitled 'What Krugman & Stiglitz Can Tell Us': … 'While the...