by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 11, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
The latest edition of the Economic Policy Institute's "State of Working America" report, out today, documents in sharp detail what has been for the middle-class economy a "lost decade" in which working people have fallen behind. But what's more disheartening is its...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 11, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
At least one moderately good thing is coming out of the ideological sewer that is the House of Representatives these days: legislation that will require the executive branch to develop "a strategy to promote growth, sustainability, and competitiveness in the Nation's...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Obama Stakes Claim For Renewed Mandate OurFuture.org's Bill Scher: "President Obama's powerful acceptance speech gave no ground from his last acceptance speech. Despite the anti-government Tea Party spasm that occurred in between, Obama once again...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 5, 2012 | Blog
The 2008 financial crash was accompanied by a stunning level of greed and disregard for the law by some of the leading titans of the financial industry. As a result, millions of people lost homes, retirement savings or were otherwise financially devastated. And yet,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 31, 2012 | Blog
With the elite conventional political wisdom so congealed around the idea that the federal government is broke, that our top priority must be to "cut the spending" without discussing the merits of the government spending we are told we must be eager to cut, and that...
