by | Nov 8, 2011 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally published at Capital Gains and Games. I predicted two things in the Sept. 6 Fiscal Fitness — the first published after the Budget Control Act was signed into law this past Aug. 2 — that are coming true faster than I, even on my most cynical days, would have...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 24, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain's comment a couple of weeks ago that "I don't believe racism in this country today holds anybody back in a big way" didn't cause much of a national stir when he made it. Why would it, when a mixed-race African American is...
by | Oct 11, 2011 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally published at Capital Gains and Games This is not a defense of the Congressional budget process. How could it be? With annual budget resolutions and appropriations now among the hardest things on the planet to pass, with deficit reduction effort after...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 5, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
At the Take Back The American Dream conference session titled “Make Work Pay: Why Empowering Workers & Holding CEO’s Accountable is Vital to Economic Growth” Christine Owens of the Nationsal Employment Law Project described to the audience how wages are declining....
by Terrance Heath | Sep 29, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
Republicans have cooled on Texas governor Rick Perry as their great white hope for 2012, but their desire to make the rest of the country look more like Texas — economically, that is — hasn't. In fact, it's hotter than ever. Despite the fact that Texas leads the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 28, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
No one knows why a group of about 10 teenagers surrounded Trell Thomas at a bus stop in downtown Washington earlier this month and beat him so badly that his jaw was broken, causing permanent damage. But Trell has given a lot of thought about how to respond to the...
