by | May 7, 2012 | Blog, Too Big To Jail
Must read of the morning, by Peter J Boyer and Peter Schweitzer at Newsbeast: Despite his populist posturing, the president has failed to pin a single top finance exec on criminal charges since the economic collapse. Are the banks too big to jail—or is Washington’s...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 29, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Bits and bytes would be doing a lot more to help make our lives less nasty, brutish, and short if we shared wealth as routinely as bandwidth. From San Francisco, a new lesson in that reality. A brick factory makes 10,000 bricks a day. But then the factory happens on a...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 24, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
When Greek prime minister Lucas Papademos, in his statement concerning the austerity-driven suicide of 77-year-old pensioner Dimitris Christoulas, called on Greeks to "support those next to us who stand in despair," he either missed or ignored the same point that...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 18, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
AT&T looks to be shooting for a double-bad award right now. They're backing the hyper-partisan ALEC, and they're trying to get their workers to take cuts while they shower cash on a few at the top. More and more, people are reacting to these kinds of attacks on We,...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 3, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America, Minimum Wage
A trio of governors and a duo of lieutenant governors last week dined on pink slime burgers and pronounced them mouth-wateringly-delicious-and-nutritious as TV cameras rolled on their barbeque in a Nebraska factory that manufactures the stuff. Shoppers have reacted...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 2, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
In 2010, Christopher Beam reported that Rep. Paul Ryan (WI, R) required his congressional staff to read Ayn Rand's Objectivist tome, Atlas Shrugged (now a major motion picture). Ryan has made no secret of his admiration for Rand's philosophy, and has cited her as "the...
