by Thom Hartmann | Mar 17, 2014 | Economy, The 2015 Budget
President Obama sent Congress a $3.9 trillion dollar budget. Although his 2015 plan has been deemed more politics than policy, it's a blueprint of how to start repairing our economy. The 2015 fiscal plan would move us away from austerity, and start us back on a path...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 13, 2014 | Better Off Budget, Economy, Progressive Vision, The 2015 Budget
Budgets are numbing – grist for geeks, not citizens. The Congressional Progressive Caucus annual budget proposal – the Better Off Budget – is no exception, detailing row after row of numeric projections. Produced in conjunction with the Economic Policy Institute,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 12, 2014 | Better Off Budget, The 2015 Budget
The Congressional Progressive Caucus releases a federal budget proposal today that, if it were fully enacted, is projected to create almost 9 million jobs over the next three years. As a statement of values as well as policy, the Caucus' proposal – called "The Better...
by Leo Gerard | Mar 11, 2014 | Conservatism, The 2015 Budget, This Is The GOP
“Shut up!” That’s what Republican darling Darrell Issa told a Democrat who tried to speak at a public hearing last week. Issa didn’t deign to actually talk to a Democrat; instead he cut the microphones so the Democrat couldn’t be heard. Rep. Issa, R-Calif., silenced...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 10, 2014 | The 2015 Budget
Republican House Speaker John Boehner calls President Obama’s new budget “irresponsible.” A New York Times headline calls it a “populist wish list.” But it’s neither of those things. The White House’s fiscal proposal is a cautious foray out of the president’s...
by Emily Schwartz Greco | Mar 5, 2014 | The 2015 Budget
With Bob Lord Have you heard? Our economic policy debate is getting some spring cleaning. President Barack Obama has signaled that he’s had it with all that talk about America being broke and the belt-tightening austerity measures that went along with that chatter....