by Robert Borosage | Apr 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
“Spending cuts hold back US growth,” warns an across the page headline of the conservative Financial Times. No surprise there. Americans are in trouble. Wages are losing ground. Over 20 million need full-time work. The percentage of working-age Americans with jobs...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 10, 2013 | The Sequester
Today, the president releases his budget for fiscal year 2014, the year that begins this October. Commentators and advocates will pour over its disparate parts, although the White House has already leaked its major contours. This document is less a budget for...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 5, 2013 | Economy
Dismal jobs production in March – only 88,000 net jobs created, not sufficient even to cover people coming into the workforce – is a wake-up call to Washington. The weak recovery is now floundering in face of harsh headwinds – the payroll tax hike, the beginnings of...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 3, 2013 | Blog
The “rising American electorate” is the name given to the core of the Obama electoral majority of the young, single women, and minorities. Democratic pundits suggest that this coalition essentially dooms Republican presidential prospects for the foreseeable future. ...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 27, 2013 | Blog
The International Federation of Health Plans has depicted our ridiculous health care system in 21 graphs. We don't get more health care; we just pay more -- much more. And this entirely accounts for the scary long-term deficit projections. If we paid what every other...
