Archive
Beyond Wisconsin The March 10 Jobs Summit
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Over the weekend, progressives rallied in front of all 50 statehouses in support of the protesting Wisconsin civil servants, but with a message...
Taxes Transparency and Our Opaque Opulent
Mega-millionaire residents of Manhattan's finest luxury towers pay less of their income in federal taxes than the janitors in their towers do. Once upon a time, we had a law that discouraged that distinction. By Sam Pizzigati How much of their mega-million incomes did...
Banks Too Big To Save
Are we headed towards banks too big to save? Check out Simon Johnson on "Geithner's Gamble" (below, emphasis added.) Big banks seem like Mr. Magoo of the old cartoons, blindly careening from one crack up to another, leaving ruin in their wake. Now they are headed back...
Saturday Rallies - Number Of Events Expands
We are all under attack, from public employees in Wisconsin and several other states, to the DC budget-cutters (just a few weeks after giving a huge tax cut to the rich) killing off NPR, slashing the EPA, consumer protections and so many other things government does...
Your Turn To Ask The Speaker
Speaker John Boehner is presently soliciting questions on YouTube and Twitter (using the hashtag #askthespeaker), and he will answer the ones which get the most votes from his YouTube page on Tuesday. I have a few. I bet you do too. * If you really believe that "we’re...
Five Ways Conservative Slashonomics Harms Us All
When Congress goes back into session next week, the Senate will be under pressure to compromise with the House on a sweeping set of cuts to the 2011 budget. But there is little room for compromise with a budget plan that in so many ways does serious harm to people and...
The Moral Imperative for Deficit Cutting
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Originally posted at New Deal 2.0. Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), head of the House Budget Committee, says that reducing the federal...
Did Gov Rick Scott Break The Law So He Could Kill 24000 High-Speed Rail Jobs
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Florida Gov. Rick Scott renewed his opposition to a federally-funded high-speed rail line yesterday, rejecting a proposal to shift responsibility...
In a Democracy Freedom of Assembly Trumps “Free Enterprise”
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » It’s illegal in America now to buy or sell a human being, but a recorded telephone conversation between a Republican governor and a guy he...
The Big Picture With Thom Hartmann Why Wisconsin Matters [VIDEO]
Last night on "The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann" I discussed why the Wisconsin fight matters to all of us, along with Think Progress' Zaid Jilani. Check out the clip below.
