by Richard Eskow | Sep 18, 2012 | Blog
Pollsters keep telling us that the public wants action on jobs, a higher tax rate for millionaires, and protection for Social Security and Medicare. Our best economists keep reminding us that job creation should be government's top priority. So why is the...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 17, 2012 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement is being negotiated in secret. Well, not exactly secret -- our trade negotiators know what is being negotiated, other countries know, heads of the huge multinational corporations get to know, but members of our...
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...
