by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 30, 2011 | Blog
July 1 starts the fiscal new year in many states around the country, and thanks to economic policies pushed by conservative governors or state legislatures, combined with gridlock at the federal level, many of these states will set in motion policies that will make...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 24, 2011 | Blog
To start your weekend on a boiling mad note, read what Talking Points Memo published this afternoon regarding the details of why Republicans bolted Thursday from the deficit-reduction talks being conducted by Vice President Joe Biden: Democrats want to close tax...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 23, 2011 | Blog
The Federal Reserve and its chairman, Ben Bernanke, should not be allowed to get away with what they did on Wednesday. What they did at the end of their Open Market Committee meeting was to essentially throw up their hands in the face of their legal responsibility to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 22, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
There is no "Texas miracle" for workers and job-seekers. There is a Texas mirage, painted vividly by conservatives and being sold as the real deal by arch-conservative Texas governor Rick Perry, who may in a few days declare his intent to run for the Republican...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 21, 2011 | Blog
Did you hear the story about the group of millionaires who called a press conference Monday and called on Congress to levy higher taxes on them? I didn't think so. On a day in which we were treated with TMI about a New York congressman's errant self portraits, the...
