by Joshua Holland | Oct 29, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Health, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge
The Great American Ripoff: The High Cost of Low Taxes (via Moyers & Company) Editor’s note: This is the first in a series on the high cost of low taxes. The American people pay a similar amount for social services – health care, retirement security, disability and...
by Thom Hartmann | Oct 24, 2013 | Current Issues, Economy, The Jobs Challenge
A coalition of public interest groups wants Congress to stop the Trans Pacific Partnership. The groups sent a letter to several ranking members of Congress, asking them to deny President Obama's request to fast-track the T.P.P., and hold on to their Constitutional...
by Digby | Sep 25, 2013 | Economy, Retirement Security, The Jobs Challenge
There's a lot of resentment toward baby boomers among young people out there and often for a very good reason. We are an insufferably self-centered lot. (And the generation that famously used "never trust anyone over 30" as its credo is in no position to complain.) In...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 13, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge
Ronald Brownstein, at the National Journal, has crunched numbers and demographic trends to explain why the GOP can't win by pinning all its hopes on white voters. Brownstein's work raises an important question: Can the GOP craft an economic message that keeps white...
by Thom Hartmann | Sep 12, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage, The Jobs Challenge
It's no longer just an expression – the rich are getting richer, and the rest of us are being shut out of the game. According to a new report from economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, the top ten percent of income earners in our nation took home more than...
by Erica Seifert | Sep 12, 2013 | Economy, The Jobs Challenge
Last week, our friends at Pew released a new report detailing the rise in the number children living with grandparents since the onset of the recession. According to the Pew report, 10 percent of children lived with a grandparent in 2011, and the vast majority of...
