by Richard Eskow | Nov 3, 2016 | Blog
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tmOWx6gyMo[/fve] Richard Eskow interviewed "Dee,” an anonymous prison strike leader jailed at an undisclosed facility in the Carolinas The for-profit prison industry is in trouble. Bernie Sanders came out against it in the...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 2, 2016 | Blog
Allyson Fredericksen, Deputy Director of Research for the People's Action Institute, discusses her new report with Richard Eskow on "The Zero Hour." Click here for audio. The People's Action Institute's new report, Waiting for Payoff: How Low Wages and Student Debt...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 1, 2016 | Blog
Richard Eskow interviewed Dean Baker about his new book, "Rigged." Audio is here. Economist Dean Baker appeared on The Zero Hour this weekend to discuss his new book, “Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 31, 2016 | Blog
It’s true: the Affordable Care Act is having problems. But Republicans who say those problems are caused by “big government” have it exactly backward. Obamacare's current difficulties are grounded in our country’s political fetishization of the private sector – a fad...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 26, 2016 | Blog
How much does it take to get by where you live? A new report concludes that current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour doesn’t come close, anywhere in the United States. It takes more than $15 per hour to earn a living wage in most states. When you throw in the...