by Jeff Bryant | Jul 27, 2011 | Blog, Education
Ask yourself if this is the type of school you'd like for your son or daughter: * At one charter school, an array of 48 "infractions"-- such as "Lying/falsehood” and "Sleeping in class" -- will get students suspended or expelled. * At another charter, students and...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 27, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
Written with Leo Hindery Jr., Chair of the Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation America is facing a catastrophic jobs crisis. Not since the Great Depression has official unemployment hovered above nine percent – where it is today – for more...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 26, 2011 | Blog
Seldom have we witnessed a more dishonest speech in prime time than that delivered by House Speaker John Boehner last night on the debt ceiling crisis. “The sad truth,” he declared, “ is that the president wanted a blank check six months ago, and he wants a blank...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 26, 2011 | Blog
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; .... The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. -William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming "It is clear we must enter an era of austerity; to reduce the deficit through shared sacrifice,"...
