by Richard Eskow | Mar 14, 2013 | Back to Work Budget, Economy
Last night I returned from a nearly month-long trip to Africa. It’s profoundly unsettling to suddenly find oneself immersed in a primitive and superstitious culture – a culture dominated by taboos and rituals, a culture whose primitive beliefs could lead to its...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 14, 2013 | Back to Work Budget
Budgets are pure EGO – eyes glaze over. But this week revealed two budgets – Rep. Paul Ryan's Republican "Path to Prosperity" 2014 budget and the Congressional Progressive Caucus "Back to Work Budget" – that in stark terms lay out two visions and two futures for...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 13, 2013 | Back to Work Budget, The Sequester
After listening to National Economic Advisor to the President Gene Sperling this morning, I think I have a better understanding of at least one reason why we ended up in this sequestration mess, and why no one in Washington can seem to figure way out of it. The White...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 13, 2013 | Back to Work Budget
They say that Washington DC and the major media are "wired for Republicans." Steve Benen explains how this works, ... week in and week out, this debate is dominated by voices from only one party. A couple of years ago, Josh Marshall talked about how the Washington...
