by Terrance Heath | Jan 8, 2013 | Minimum Wage
A growing number Republican Governors are refusing to expand their state Medicaid programs. The Supreme Court weakened the Medicaid expansion written into the Affordable Care Act, when it ruled that the federal government can't penalize states that refused the...
by Digby | Jan 8, 2013 | Blog
I hope Greg Sargent is right about this: It’s true that Boehner insists above that Republicans won’t back down from the demand that spending get cut by the same amount as the debt ceiling rises. But all that really means is that they will use the size of the debt...
by Leo Gerard | Jan 8, 2013 | Blog
Last week, as Congress opened its new session, two regular Joes - Sen. Manchin of West Virginia and Vice President Biden of Delaware - gave a hand to Sen. Mark Kirk, a Republican from Illinois, who'd suffered a stroke a year earlier. Joe and Joe assisted Sen. Kirk in...
by Bill Scher | Jan 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Two New Fraud Deals OurFuture.org's Richard Eskow: "It must’ve been like old home week when the old gang of Wall Street and Washington insiders finalized a couple more cushy settlements last week. Everybody knew the drill: Ignore the potential...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 8, 2013 | Blog
It must've been like old home week when the old gang of Wall Street and Washington insiders finalized a couple more cushy settlements last week. Everybody knew the drill: Ignore the potential criminal charges and agree on settlement figures they think the public will...
