by Dave Johnson | Jun 6, 2011 | Blog, Economy
We have a jobs emergency. We have a stagnant economy. We are falling behind in economic competitiveness. We have developed a terrible concentration of income and wealth. We can address all of these at once. Robert Kuttner, writing in The Economic Relapse at the...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 6, 2011 | Blog
Stan Collender is right. The NY-26 election special election will change the budget debate. In fact, it already has. Democrat Kath Hochul's victory over Republican Jane Corwin, in a solidly Republican district, in special election that became a referendum on Rep. Paul...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 6, 2011 | Blog
In my previous post, I covered what Republicans want to do to Medicaid. In this post, I intend to delve into why Republicans want to gut Medicaid. Republicans present their budget proposal as a solution to the "problems" of Medicaid and Medicare, which their...
by Roger Hickey | Jun 6, 2011 | Blog
Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. And we're going to commemorate these costly handouts ... by taking action to get rid of them. 10 years of Bush tax cuts is enough! Click here to demand your representative supports the Fairness in...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 3, 2011 | Blog
This is a classic "small d" democratic moment. The economy is in deep trouble -- immediate and long term. Washington is oblivious, compromised by moneyed interests, knotted by ideological divides. It will take an angry and aroused citizens' movement to...
