by Roger Hickey | Apr 5, 2013 | Chained CPI
President Obama’s decision to include cuts to Social Security benefits in his budget is wrong policy and dumb politics. His chained CPI plan is wrong because it hurts Americans who have worked hard their entire lives and who need the support that Social Security gives...
by Derek Pugh | Apr 5, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage, The Sequester
Millennials – the largest, best educated, and most diverse generation in our nation’s history – have one question for Democrats seeking election in 2014: Do your values really reflect ours? Democrats have reason to worry about what the answer would be from the 80...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 5, 2013 | Too Big To Jail
Have the Wall Street Democrats of “Third Way” or their predecessors in the Clintonite “Democratic Leadership Council” ever been right about an important economic issue? That’s not meant as a thoughtless insult or flippant one-liner. We consider it a legitimate line...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 4, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Watch this opening from today's All-In With Chris Hayes. Seriously, you might even tear up like I did. I'm talking about his opening monologue about the Thursday fast-food strike in NY, and what this means. At about 1 minute into this clip he talks about why this...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 4, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Republicans criticize government spending when it is about making our lives better. Of course, by definition all government spending is done to make our lives better. (In a democracy government spending is We, the People deciding how and where to spend the money....
by Digby | Apr 4, 2013 | The Sequester
Jonathan Chait flagged this quote from Eric Cantor today and came up with an interesting theory as to why he said it: Mr. Cantor complained that the president, while insisting on additional tax increases, still has not embraced the structural changes to Medicare,...
