by Thom Hartmann | Jan 22, 2014 | Economy, Minimum Wage, The Jobs Challenge
Economic inequality is a major threat to human progress. According to a new report from Oxfam, 85 people control the same amount of wealth as half the population of the entire world, and the top one percent has 65 times the wealth of the bottom half. This...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 17, 2014 | The Jobs Challenge, Unemployment Benefits
[fve]http://youtu.be/IodMh1T-eVw[/fve] As Republican senators were preparing to head to their home states Thursday for a week-long recess, several of them told The Huffington Post's Michael McAuliff that they have no regrets about filibustering an extension of...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 16, 2014 | Budget Talks, Conservatism
“In Defeat for Tea Party, House passes $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill,” The New York Times reports. The compromise bill that will sail through the Senate by the end of the week is celebrated for heralding a return to “regular order,” to the bipartisan cooperation needed...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 13, 2014 | Unemployment Benefits
Republicans are engaged in yet more hostage-taking obstruction. (Whatever gave them the idea that hostage-taking can work?) They are engaged in a filibuster of the effort to extend unemployment insurance, using it as a hostage to try to get even more cuts to the...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 13, 2014 | Unemployment Benefits
Despite record-high levels of unemployment – especially long-term unemployment – Republicans are refusing to permit any extension of unemployment insurance benefits unless it’s “paid for” with money taken from other government programs. They've never demanded that of...
by Bill Scher | Jan 9, 2014 | Unemployment Benefits
[fve]http://youtu.be/IAPccIfqG8k[/fve] While legislation to renew extended unemployment insurance cleared a big hurdle in the Senate this week, it's far from the last one. Most of the handful of Republicans who voted to advance the bill say they won't support the...
