by Richard Eskow | Jun 15, 2011 | Blog
Fear never goes out of fashion. Once again Republicans are dealing in fear instead of facts, and why not? It's worked in the past, and a nation that's locked in seemingly permanent recession and high unemployment may be in the market for some scapegoats. Monday's...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 15, 2011 | Blog
One of the three 'serious' candidates for the 2012 Republican White House bid says the tax cuts for the rich he's proposing will expand America's 'entrepreneurial' class. What does history say? Last week, in a “major policy address,” GOP Presidential...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 15, 2011 | Blog
This weekend I went to the San Mateo (CA) County Fair. My wife’s dance troupe (pic here) and students were performing. (They were on a stage next to and immediately before the pig races, near the funnel cake stand.) I got there early and before they started I walked...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 14, 2011 | Blog
Conservatives are masters at manipulating public expectations for their ends, and they are doing it to particularly disastrous effect when it comes to what we should expect on jobs. The result is that we are being persuaded to accept the unacceptable. That is the tide...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 14, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
"It's an employer's world," said Rebecca Penny, a 55-year-old widow who was laid off over a year ago from her job at a Chevrolet plant in Tennessee. "I lost my benefits the night I was laid off. Now I can't afford medicine. And I can only find minimum...
