by Robert Borosage | Mar 5, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage
Today, Senator Tom Harkin and Representative George Miller offer a ray of light amid the austerity blight in Washington. They are announcing introduction of a bill – the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013 – to raise the minimum wage gradually to $10.10 and index it so it...
by Stan Collender | Mar 4, 2013 | The Sequester
How did the sequester happen? How is it possible that what supposedly was the worst possible way to cut the deficit somehow became what actually happened? Over the weekend Ezra Klein, in a much retweeted blog post that was the talk of large parts of the political...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 3, 2013 | Education, The Sequester
This post is republished from the Education Opportunity Network, a new online publication edited by Jeff Bryant. It's a popular analogy among fans of the political game to call Republicans the "Daddy Party" and assign "Mommy Party" to Democratic folk. The source of...
by Ben Johnson | Mar 1, 2013 | The Sequester
You wouldn’t know it from the shopping list drawn up for the Pentagon by defense hawks in Congress, but we’re long past the days of contending with a global superpower developing weapons that rival our own and flaunting its military might in menacing, destabilizing...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 1, 2013 | The Sequester
The smackdown that President Obama delivered today to people who assert that he and others are exaggerating the impact of the sequestration for dramatic effect is worth publishing in full: Q: What do you say to the people like Mayor Bloomberg -- who is no critic of...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 1, 2013 | The Sequester
Remember when Republicans were so concerned about deficits? Not so much... today they are outraged that the IRS is not being shut down by the sequester and will continue to collect the revenue that reduces deficits. Gosh, do you think maybe deficits are not their real...
