by Bill Scher | Sep 12, 2013 | Shutdown
Yesterday the House leadership scrapped plans to vote on a bill to keep the government open. It was a conservative plan that would essentially maintain the sequester cuts. But it didn't tie Senate passage to the defunding of ObamaCare, so Tea Party Republicans were...
by Thom Hartmann | Sep 12, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage, The Jobs Challenge
It's no longer just an expression – the rich are getting richer, and the rest of us are being shut out of the game. According to a new report from economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, the top ten percent of income earners in our nation took home more than...
by Erica Seifert | Sep 12, 2013 | Economy, The Jobs Challenge
Last week, our friends at Pew released a new report detailing the rise in the number children living with grandparents since the onset of the recession. According to the Pew report, 10 percent of children lived with a grandparent in 2011, and the vast majority of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 11, 2013 | Shutdown
With Congress now poised to focus on a high-stakes debate on federal spending, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Cay Johnston advised a group of progressive leaders today that it's time to take the gloves off. "We need to stop beating around the bush...
by Derek Pugh | Sep 11, 2013 | Economy, Student Debt Relief
Don’t be fooled by the U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings. The Internet is already abuzz over which college trampled the other for the race to the top of the list, released this morning. With the usual suspects taking the lead, like Harvard and...
by Michael Winship | Sep 10, 2013 | Minimum Wage, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge
In Los Angeles, Labor Redefines Itself (via Moyers & Company) “It’s time to turn America right side up!” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka exhorted those in attendance at the labor alliance’s quadrennial convention in Los Angeles on Monday. Time, he said in his keynote...
