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Reform Leaders Explain Moves To End Corporate Tax Evasion
Corporations are shifting more of their money overseas to avoid the taxman in the U.S. and pursuing territorial tax legislation in Congress that would further enshrine that tax evasion into law.
Deficit Falling Even More Dramatically, Few Know It
Austerity is beginning to hit and the economy is slowing as a result. The most immediate effect is that flights are delayed, but unemployment checks are smaller and there are fewer things We the People do to make our lives and economy better -- also called "government...
Austerity's Curveballs
Since the austerity crowd won’t own up to a mistake, I will: I engaged in a kind of thought experiment last week, after we first learned that austerity economics is partly based on a spreadsheet error. I wondered, What if you were a government leader who sincerely...
Deficits Are Bad and the Sun Goes Around the Earth
Most of us accept that the earth goes around the sun. This is impressive since we can look up in the sky and see the sun going around the earth. We believe the opposite because we have been told about the research of astronomers over the centuries showing that what we...
Pivot Point's Maya Rockeymoore On Whether Obama's Policies Are Failing Us
A critique of the impact on African Americans of using the chained CPI to limit the cost-of-living adjustment on Social Security benefits and my criticism of President Obama's jobs proposals were among the highlights of a one-hour discussion Sunday led by Maya...
The Only CEO Pay Number that Really Matters
How much did America's top execs make last year? The scorekeepers don't all agree. But that won't matter if we keep our eyes on the most important figure of all: the pay gap between CEOs and workers.
On Earth Day, U.S. Is Behind In The Clean Energy Race
The Pew Charitable Trust’s fourth annual report on "Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race?" doesn’t give the United States much to celebrate on this Earth Day. The report, released last week, finds that the United States is no longer the global leader in renewable...
On Earth Day, U.S. Is Behind In The Clean Energy Race
The Pew Charitable Trust’s fourth annual report on "Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race?" doesn’t give the United States much to celebrate on this Earth Day. The report, released last week, finds that the United States is no longer the global leader in renewable...
Real Faces of the Minimum Wage
Corporate interests and their elected representatives have created a world of illusion in order to resist paying a decent wage to working Americans. They'd have us believe that minimum-wage workers are teens from '50s TV sitcoms working down at the local malt shoppe....
The Fair Housing Act at 45: A Time for Celebration and Action
April is fair housing month and, this year, it’s also the 45th anniversary of the passage of the Fair Housing Act. Adopted in the wake of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Fair Housing Act transformed the legal rights that all Americans have to...
