by Richard Eskow | May 18, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Well, this is awkward. A few days ago President Obama literally laughed off Sen. Elizabeth Warren's concern that his so-called “fast track” provision, which would limit Congressional power regarding trade deals for the next six years, endangers 2010's Dodd/Frank...
by Richard Eskow | May 14, 2015 | Blog, Economy
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll recently asked the following question: “Which concerns you more: the income gap between the wealthiest Americans and the rest of the country, or middle and working class Americans not being able to get ahead financially?” If you...
by Richard Eskow | May 12, 2015 | Blog, Retirement Security
For The Huffington Post's 10th anniversary I was asked to predict what Social Security might look like 10 years from now. That future is filled with both possibility and shadowed by danger. To understand exactly how rich those possibilities are, let's begin by looking...
by Richard Eskow | May 4, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
When asked about Baltimore last week, President Obama said this: “... if we think that we’re just gonna send the police to do the dirty work of containing the problems that arise (in our inner cities), without as a nation and as a society saying what can we do to...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 28, 2015 | Blog, Education
This week Corinthian Colleges Inc. announced that it had “ceased substantially all operations and discontinued instruction” at its remaining campuses. That should have brought the indebtedness of its many defrauded students to an end. This "educational institution"...
