by Roger Hickey | Feb 13, 2013 | Chained CPI, Economy
With tonight’s State of the Union address, President Obama attempted to refocus his new second term with a focus on jobs and supporting the middle class. He clearly wants to stop talking about deficits and debt and start talking about reviving the economy for...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 13, 2013 | The Sequester
Koch-funded Florida Tea-Party Sen. Marco Rubio gave the "Republican Response" to the President's State of the Union speech. Then Koch-funded Kentucky Tea-Party Sen. Rand Paul gave the "Koch-funded Tea-Party" Republican response. (Did the networks ever air a...
by Daniel Marans | Feb 12, 2013 | Chained CPI, The Sequester
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has ruled out Social Security cuts in any plan to replace the sequester. In the State of the Union address, President Obama can either stand with Harry Reid and Senate Democrats--or betray them. Democrats' disagreement over cutting...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 12, 2013 | Minimum Wage
President Obama demonstrated his gutsiness in recent months by speaking so many words that craven politicians contend cannot be spoken. These are hot-button words like same sex-marriage, immigration reform, gun control and climate change. Fighting words. The president...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 10, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage
The president will stand before Congress for his State of the Union address as the leader of an emerging progressive majority coalition that he has helped to forge. Empowered by that coalition, he has already teed up an ambitious agenda: comprehensive immigration...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 10, 2013 | Minimum Wage
You are probably hearing that the Post Office is "in crisis" and is cutting back Saturday delivery, laying people off, closing offices, etc. Like so many other "crises" imposed on us lately, there is a lot to the story that you are not hearing from the "mainstream"...
