by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 18, 2012 | Blog
Austerity budgets are spreading everywhere, but wealth, new data show, has become more concentrated at the global economic summit than ever before. From Cairo to Palo Alto, even some conservatives are now talking wealth tax. Forbes magazine started tracking America’s...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 18, 2012 | Blog
Question: What are the connecting threads between these two recent Mitt Romney news items - the announcement that he's not enrolling in Medicare, and the revelation that Bain Capital helped him make money helping the Chinese government spy on its people? Answer:...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 16, 2012 | Blog
A report today in The Huffington Post that the AARP is organizing a "salon" dominated by supporters of cuts to Social Security benefits—as part of a larger "listening tour"—has advocates for preserving Social Security hopping mad. Apparently, the AARP has not learned...
by | Mar 16, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America, Minimum Wage
The following is an official statement from the AFL-CIO Executive Council. The economic policies that led to the financial crash of 2008 and the subsequent Great Recession should have been permanently discredited by their epic failure. Instead, the Republican...
