by Dave Johnson | Mar 22, 2012 | Blog
(Note - This post originally appeared Feb 14, 2011. The date was changed when CAF switched blog platforms.) Many people don’t understand our country’s problem of concentration of income and wealth because they don’t see it. People just don't understand how much wealth...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 22, 2012 | Blog
(Note - This post originally appeared Feb 14, 2011. The date was changed when CAF switched blog platforms.) Many people don’t understand our country’s problem of concentration of income and wealth because they don’t see it. People just don't understand how much...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 22, 2012 | Blog
Yesterday, House Republicans rolled out their budget plan in the Washington version of a Hollywood movie opening. There was a star turn for Budget Chair Paul Ryan at a conservative think tank. Gaseous rhetoric -- "liberties endangered, time to choose" -- fouled the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 22, 2012 | Blog
As a mark-up session for the House Republican budget for fiscal 2013 was taking place in the House Budget Committee hearing room, members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus were outside presenting the outlines of their alternative, designed to put jobs and...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 22, 2012 | Blog
By now most people have heard some of the worst things about the Republican budget proposal - commonly called the "Ryan plan" and unironically described by the GOP as "the Path to Prosperity": That it decimates programs for middle class and lower-income Americans...
