by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 4, 2012 | Blog, Financial Reform, Making it in America
Don't get too distracted by the fissures in the Republican electorate revealed in Tuesday night's Iowa caucus vote. On basic economic issues, in fact, the candidates are remarkably united; there's hardly eight votes worth of difference between Mitt Romney and Rick...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 23, 2011 | Blog
Consider House Speaker John Boehner's U-turn on a temporary extension of a payroll tax holiday a temporary retreat. The tea-party Republicans who lead Boehner show no signs of actually moderating their agenda, and that will make next year's fight to continue the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 22, 2011 | Blog
For "renaldomacias" on Twitter, $40 extra a paycheck means "buying a full bag of groceries OR filling the car with gas to get to work. Without that $40, we'll be doing neither." BaldEmotions writes, "#40dollars a paycheck through the entire year is what it costs us to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 19, 2011 | Blog
House Republicans are expected later today to engage in yet another one of their acts of economic sabotage. After a rare bipartisan agreement in the Senate to temporarily extend a worker payroll tax break and extended unemployment benefits for two months, getting both...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 16, 2011 | Blog
Keith Chatterton, a 61-year-old former salesman for a building components company, recently told the Syracuse Post-Standard that he hasn't had a steady job since 2008, even with "days scouring the Internet for openings, attending job fairs and support groups, trying...
