by Eric Lotke | Jun 24, 2010 | Blog
It happened again today. The Washington Post says the Democrats lost in the US Senate because they were “unable to muster the 60 votes needed.” As a result, states won’t get help paying for Medicaid, long term unemployed won’t get relief, and hedge fund managers will...
by Eric Lotke | Jun 14, 2010 | Blog
It’s 2010, census year. The headcount was in April and the results will be released in December. Next spring the action begins: redistricting. If you thought the November elections mattered for control of Congress, the forward momentum of the progressive movement or...
by Eric Lotke | Jun 10, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
The Campaign for America's Future’s America’s Future Now! conference just finished. It revealed a remarkable unity of vision, and a careful balance in troubled times. Progressives came together and credited President Obama and the Congressional Democrats for...
by Eric Lotke | Jun 4, 2010 | Blog
The new unemployment data are out and the headlines are all wrong. The headlines report unemployment of 9.7 percent in May, down a tick from 9.9 percent in April. It’s good news but it misses the point. Nonfarm employment grew by 431,000 last month. That’s nice, but...
by Eric Lotke | May 17, 2010 | Blog
Today’s news is the Supreme Court decision that juveniles cannot be confined in prison without the possibility of parole for offenses committed while juveniles (in this case, a very clumsy store robbery by a 16 year old with a crowbar). Yesterd ay’s news was the...
