by Terrance Heath | Jul 1, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Remember Sarah Palin? I know she hasn't really gone anywhere (except back home to Alaska until her bus tour resumes, on some date known only to her and possibly her staff), hope as we may that she will some day. No, I mean remember Sarah Palin circa 2008, after her...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 1, 2011 | Blog
We now have sorry news of the foul deal that the White House is pushing in the debt ceiling talks. About $1.5 trillion in spending cuts -- including $200-300 billion from Medicare and Medicaid -- in exchange for $130 billion in loophole closings -- corporate jets,...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 30, 2011 | Blog, Chained CPI
Do you hear a noise like power saws cutting away at your Social Security benefits? That's the sound of the politicians working on the "Chain Gang." They're promoting the "chained CPI," Washington's latest gimmick for tricking voters and cutting their hard-earned...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 30, 2011 | Blog, Education
Earlier this week, when a representative of the Beltway-based
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 30, 2011 | Blog
A decade into a staggeringly unequal 21st century United States, historians have rediscovered a long-forgotten Revolutionary War hero who stirred men’s souls with a remarkably far-sighted egalitarian vision. George Washington. John Adams. Thomas Jefferson. Robert...
by Eric Hunt | Jun 30, 2011 | Blog
New York Sen. Charles Schumer spoke today at the Economic Policy Institute about the need for Congress and the White House-Republican budget deficit talks to focus on America's most important issue of the day: job creation. "The view that Congress should focus on jobs...
