by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Fix the Debt’s New Ploy Is Too Obscene For Laughter OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "Fix the Debt, a front group for corporations, billionaires, and defense contractors, wants people to call their representatives and demand that they avoid the “fiscal...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 20, 2012 | Blog, Chained CPI
Fix the Debt, a front group for corporations, billionaires, and defense contractors, wants people to call their Representatives and demand that they avoid the "fiscal cliff." The group's latest email is so badly written that it cries out for laughter, but its...
by Stan Collender | Dec 20, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Don’t expect Congress to tackle a tax overhaul anytime soon. For the third year in a row I am not writing a year-in-review column because, honestly, they’re boring and unnecessary. If you’ve been interested enough in the federal budget to read my column in 2012, you...
by Mike Lux | Dec 20, 2012 | Blog
When I was a young organizer for Iowa Citizen Action Network, we were doing a lot of work on utility rate hikes. I met an elderly woman, maybe late 70s, who was living on her Social Security check. As utility prices went through the roof, her cost of living increase...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 20, 2012 | Blog
US manufacturing wages are competitive, but wages are not the only reason companies might not be coming back. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a report this week, International Comparisons of Hourly Compensation Costs in Manufacturing, 2011, that debunks the...
