by Robert Borosage | Jul 18, 2012 | Blog
I write from a patio overlooking the palmed courtyard of the Raffles Hotel Le Royal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The colonial vestiges have their appeal. Phnom Penh, which I imagined as a sleepy French influenced capital with rickshaws and tuktuks, is a bustling...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 6, 2012 | Blog, Economy
Today’s jobs numbers reinforce what we already know about this economy: The growth is too slow; the jobs created too few. Last month’s 80,000 additional jobs does not keep pace with the number of new workers coming into the economy. We are essentially limping in...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 21, 2012 | Blog, Economy
This was delivered as the opening address to the Take Back the American Dream Summit in Washington, D.C., on June 18. On behalf of the Campaign for America’s Future, I welcome you to this year’s Take Back the American Dream Summit. You are activists and leaders from...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 18, 2012 | Blog
As progressives gather at the annual Take Back the American Dream Conference today in Washington, they are gearing up for what is a fundamental struggle about America’s future. Clearly, America’s modern-day economy no longer works for working people. The financial...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 7, 2012 | Blog
Appeared in the June 25, 2012 edition of The Nation. Co-written with Katrina vanden Heuvel. This year will feature the most ideologically polarized election since the Reagan-Carter face-off of 1980. A radical-right Republican Party, backed by big-money interests, has...
