by Richard Eskow | Apr 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
A poll was released today which found that only 16 percent of adult Americans know anyone who was affected by sequester flight delays. Now that Congress has acted so swiftly to address this disproportionately higher-income inconvenience, that number probably won't...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
The other day I used a Politico story about Congressional staffers and health benefits to make some points about health reform. The Politico article was essentially a GOP-planted attack on “Obamacare” which exploited the fact that Representatives and their staff are...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
This week Slate columnist Matt Yglesias became the latest in a long list of commentators, analysts, and politicians to be seduced by the alluring notion that you can quantify, measure and model the value of a human life in intellectually stimulating, value-free, and...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
The New York Times got a key fact wrong today when it wrote that Mark Begich, the Democratic Senator from Alaska, “voted against a measure to expand background checks” for gun purchases. But we doubt that Begich will complain: The truth is much worse. Thanks to...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Since the austerity crowd won’t own up to a mistake, I will: I engaged in a kind of thought experiment last week, after we first learned that austerity economics is partly based on a spreadsheet error. I wondered, What if you were a government leader who sincerely...
