by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 18, 2012 | Blog, Reagan Revolution
There's another chapter to add to the narrative my colleague Dave Johnson sketched out some weeks ago about how the Reagan revolution has come home to roost, based on sobering statistics uncovered this morning by David Cay Johnston at Tax.com about how The Great...
by | Mar 16, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America, Minimum Wage
The following is an official statement from the AFL-CIO Executive Council. The economic policies that led to the financial crash of 2008 and the subsequent Great Recession should have been permanently discredited by their epic failure. Instead, the Republican...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 8, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
As I wrote yesterday, at this point it no longer matters whether or not Mitt Romney takes the positions he does because he truly believes they are right or to satisfy conservatives in his party. The right-wingers who own his party will demand his fealty, if Romney...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 7, 2012 | Blog, Reagan Revolution
Conservatives and plutocrats claim that cutting taxes makes the economy grow. But after 'W' cut taxes, the economy didn't grow. And after Clinton raised taxes on the rich the economy grew a lot. Maybe - just maybe - having a government that is funded and functioning...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 6, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
In January I called attention to the work of our former colleague Anne Thompson, who captured video of presidential candidate Mitt Romney saying that he supported ensuring that the minimum wage kept pace with inflation. "My view has been to allow the minimum wage to...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 5, 2012 | Blog, Reagan Revolution
Conservatives like to talk about how well the economy did under Reagan, and how poorly it is doing now. Then they say that government "takes money out of the economy." But the difference in economic growth was that under Reagan the government was spending and hiring,...
