by Robert Borosage | Mar 19, 2013 | Back to Work Budget
As early as today, the members of the House of Representatives will choose. At a time of mass unemployment and slow growth, they will vote for more austerity or for more jobs. At a time of Gilded Age inequality, they will decide whether the rich bear too large a...
by Bill Scher | Mar 18, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Today the Republican National Committee released its "autopsy" of its 2012 electoral defeat, officially titled the "Growth and Opportunity Project." On one hand, it's a serious attempt to assess how the Republican Party has become uncompetitive nationally, and...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 18, 2013 | Back to Work Budget
There was panic in Cyprus today as ordinary citizens learned that the government was about to take nearly seven percent (6.75 percent) of the money in their bank accounts as part of a package to bail out reckless banks. The outrage was justified, predictable, and...
by Derek Pugh | Mar 18, 2013 | The Sequester
Conservatives are using the sequester as leverage in their latest attempt to hold our economy and government hostage. All in all, nine percent of non-defense programs and 13 percent of defense programs will be cut in a seven-month time span. Aside from the million...
by Derek Pugh | Mar 18, 2013 | Back to Work Budget
Just as Liberals have time honored pilgrimages, such as the annual march on Washington, so do conservatives. Last week, thousands of conservative activist and nearly a dozen possible 2016 Republican candidates gathered in Washington to attend the annual Conservative...
by Roger Hickey | Mar 17, 2013 | Back to Work Budget, Minimum Wage
Every American who cares about jobs and a healthy U.S. economy should pick up the phone right now, call your Congressperson’s office, and tell whoever answers, “I want my representative to vote this week for the Back to Work Budget introduced by the Congressional...
