by Robert Borosage | Jan 12, 2012 | Blog
Republicans continue to expose the real Romney: In Politico, Richard Viguerie, the New Right mass mail mogul, makes the case that Romney is a lowlife "crony capitalist" To Mitt Romney, venture capitalist, the average worker is an expendable line on a spreadsheet,...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 21, 2011 | Blog
The following was written by Robert Borosage and Roger Hickey. House Republicans have left no doubt: all they want is economic pain for political gain. Instead of accepting the bipartisan Senate bill, passed 89-10, to extend the payroll tax cut for a few months so a...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Democrats are salivating -- or as Rachel Maddow put it -- cheering, screaming, crying -- at the prospect of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich becoming the Republican presidential nominee. And why not? Gingrich, conservative George Will writes, "embodies the vanity...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 13, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
When Newt Gingrich maligned our "truly stupid" child labor laws and suggested that children 14 and under be put to work cleaning their schools, he sparked the outrage the former House speaker relishes. Less attention was paid to the other casualty of his proposition:...
by Robert Borosage | Dec 2, 2011 | Blog
The November jobs report released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics simply confirms what we know: the economy is growing slowly, and haltingly. New jobs are barely at the level of new workers coming into the workforce. Workers aren’t sharing in the rewards of...
