by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
The legislative battle to lower greenhouse gas emissions is finally getting into full gear in the Senate with Wednesday's introduction of a comprehensive climate change bill. McClatchy News Service reports: The landmark legislation -- called the Clean Energy Jobs and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 25, 2009 | Blog
The facts, as Wall Street insider-turned-investigative journalist Nomi Prins laid them out Thursday in her talk at the Economic Policy Institute, are a damning indictment of the performance of our politicians. One year after a frenzy of financial industry bailout...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 23, 2009 | Blog
It's always amazing to see the bald-faced capacity of the right to spew the intellectual fatuousness that whenever a president's decision aligns with the interests of unions and workers, he's caving in to political pressure, but when it aligns with the interests of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 17, 2009 | Blog
In their first meeting Wednesday, members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission—often characterized as the second coming of the Pecora Commission that investigated the causes of the Great Depression—clarified how they see their mission and what we can expect....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 15, 2009 | Blog
Last night, on a 83-7 vote, the Senate voted to bar ACORN from receiving any funds in the fiscal 2010 Transportation and HUD appropriations bills. If the House follows suit, that would effectively end several housing assistance and advocacy programs that ACORN has...
