by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 1, 2011 | Blog
The stream of economic experts who are denouncing the budget slashing that the House of Representatives did last month has just turned into a flood. Today the Economic Policy Institute and the Center for American Progress jointly released a statement signed by nearly...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 28, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics today confirms what several other experts are saying about the slash-and-burn budget antics of House conservatives: The budget cuts being pushed by House Speaker John Boehner and the Tea Party-possessed House of Representatives will not...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 25, 2011 | Blog
When Congress goes back into session next week, the Senate will be under pressure to compromise with the House on a sweeping set of cuts to the 2011 budget. But there is little room for compromise with a budget plan that in so many ways does serious harm to people and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 22, 2011 | Blog
Dig into the numbers of the latest Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard University poll on the recession and race and it's easy to see how the Obama administration and congressional Democrats have blown it on winning the allegiance of the white working...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 14, 2011 | Blog, Economy
LISTEN Deborah Weinstein of the Coalition for Human Needs explains how irresponsible federal budget cuts being proposed by conservatives in Congress will ultimately make the economy worse. The federal budget cuts being proposed by conservatives on Capitol Hill are not...
