by Hugh Upton | Dec 19, 2012 | Blog, Unemployment Benefits
President Obama criticized House Speaker John Boehner's "Plan B" proposal today because it lacks an extension for unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless. If the president fails to win on this issue, two million people will face tough choices. The mortgage...
by Hugh Upton | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog
So, the president gave an off the record interview to the Des Moines Register in which he discussed the Grand Bargain. (The paper apparently pitched a fit after the fact and the campaign agreed to allow it to be published.) Q: Mr. President, we know that John Boehner...
by Hugh Upton | Nov 27, 2007 | Blog
One of the black holes in our national discourse is the right’s revival of old-style nativism in its approach to the current immigration debate -- replete with its scapegoating, demonization, and conspiracy theories, all in the pursuit of an eliminationist policy of...
