by Dave Johnson | Nov 25, 2013 | Economy, Making it in America, Minimum Wage
Show this one at Thanksgiving!! [fve]http://youtu.be/uUAWLqQHeRw[/fve] See What's Walmart's Business Secret? at the AFL-CIO blog. The six Walton heirs own about 50% of the company and have a combined wealth of $142 billion. This means they have more wealth than 42% of...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 22, 2013 | Budget Talks, Conservatism, Health, This Is The GOP
The GOP is targeting Medicaid in its next attack on health care reform. House Republicans want to take away $20 billion budgeted for the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion and use it to cover defense cuts. This is who they are. Politico reported yesterday that a...
by Derek Pugh | Nov 19, 2013 | Budget Talks, The Sequester
Americans have endured five long years of hardship, stagnant wages and slow growth in the post-recession economy. Enough is enough. Join Campaign for America’s Future and eight other groups representing millions of Americans in a campaign to get rid of the sequester...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 18, 2013 | Budget Talks, Retirement Security
This week Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts gave an important speech on the floor of the United State Senate. Said Sen. Warren, “the conversation about retirement and Social Security benefits is not just a conversation about math. At its core, this is a...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 17, 2013 | Budget Talks
As we enter into yet another round of budget discussions, the Democratic Party is confronted with an opportunity – and a challenge. There's an opportunity to shift the budget debate to an area where they hold the high ground. But it will be a challenge for some...
by Mary Bottari | Nov 14, 2013 | Budget Talks, Economy, Retirement Security
Say it ain’t so Jon. Our friend Jon Romano, press secretary for the inside-the-beltway PR campaign “Fix the Debt” and its pet youth group, The Can Kicks Back, have been caught writing op-eds for college students and placing the identical op-eds in papers across the...