by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 13, 2011 | Blog
Our sister site, TheMiddleClass.org, is taking a dim view of the budget deal struck Friday between the White House and Congress for fiscal year 2011. It concedes that it is not as disastrous for middle-class and lower-income people as H.R. 1, the budget the House...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 13, 2011 | Blog
RELATED POST Robert Borosage rates President Obama's speech against his "citizen's guide" to common-sense standards for the budget debate. Earlier this week at The Nation, Melissa Harris-Perry wondered if President Obama lost his ability to "tell the story"—in other...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 8, 2011 | Blog
TheMiddleClass.org, the website that evaluates legislation and congressional votes based on their impact on middle-class people, is being officially reintroduced today with a scathing indictment of the House Republican budget proposal for fiscal year 2012 drafted by...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog
"We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live." —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speech in Memphis, Tenn., April 3, 1968 On April 4, we will be called on not to merely remember that Dr....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Two steps forward, one step back. That's what we keep doing on the jobs front as long as we allow conservative budget austerity to drown out efforts to keep the jobs-producing machine revved up. The private sector generated a net increase of 230,000 jobs in March,...
