by Robert Borosage | Dec 4, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The November jobs report – 211,000 jobs with the headline unemployment rate staying at 5 percent – met "expectations." It is now virtually inevitable that the Federal Reserve will begin raising interest rates at its December 15-16 meetings, as Fed Chair Janet Yellen...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 23, 2015 | Blog, Financial Reform, Progressive Vision
At the last Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton inadvertently sparked a firestorm when she invoked her woman donors and 9/11 as a defense to Bernie Sanders calling out her Wall Street donors. As Molly Ball tweeted, playing both the women’s card and the 9/11 card in one...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 3, 2015 | Blog, Education
[fve]https://youtu.be/2zMbspRhqJc[/fve] Turns out the teachers got it right. The wheels are falling off the so-called “education reform” project which dismissed the voices of teachers – and particularly their unions – with no little vitriol. Reformers offered clear,...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 29, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
The CNBC Republican presidential debate last night opened with a startling bolt of straight talk: “We are on the verge, perhaps, of picking someone who cannot do this job,” said Ohio Governor John Kasich, ignoring the inane moderator request that the candidates begin...
by Robert Borosage | Oct 23, 2015 | Awards Gala 2015, Blog, Progressive Vision
Time Magazine hails Sen. Elizabeth Warren as the “sheriff of Wall Street.” Her effectiveness stuns the powers that be. Fox News’ Melissa Francis says people on Wall Street think, “Elizabeth Warren is the devil.” Bill O’Reilly fulminates that she’s a “socialist,” yet...
