by Leo Gerard | Mar 13, 2012 | Blog
Across America, people are dying for work. It's not because they're unemployed. It's because they work for corporations that don't care if they die. Every day, 12 workers die on the job in America – often because a corporation has defied regulations or ignored...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 13, 2012 | Blog
When it comes to changing Mitt Romney's image as a rich guy who's out of touch with the economic realities of the lives of middle- and working-class Americans, the Romney's — Mitt, who doesn't follow NASCAR, but has friends who own NASCAR teams; and Ann, who drives a...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 12, 2012 | Blog
There are small signs that real recovery might finally be kicking in. (Republicans have been able to obstruct it for only so long.) But we have not rewired the economic paradigm to work for the 99%, so any recovery will only bring back the imbalances that caused the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 12, 2012 | Blog
The fight to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and to undo its effects on our democracy is now being ratcheted up as a spectrum of progressive organizations are cooperating on multiple fronts. The groups, which include the Campaign for America's...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 12, 2012 | Blog
Great economic cataclysms have in the past knocked the super rich off their stride. Our Great Recession's deep pockets, stunning new income data show, are bucking the historical tide. We can wait all we want, but sometimes history never gets around to repeating....
