by Adele Stan | Jun 3, 2011 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
By Rick Perlstein First, they came for the spinach. I remember the day last September. The supermarket had a new kind of salad dressing, one that looked like it would taste good with spinach. I went to the produce section to buy a bag. But they all had been recalled....
by Richard Eskow | Jun 3, 2011 | Blog
In light of today's terrible job numbers, it's a bittersweet experience to re-read a recent report from Wells Fargo Bank which argues that high unemployment is "the new normal." While it's comforting to find Wells Fargo employees who aren't laundering money for the...
by Bill Scher | Jun 3, 2011 | Blog
The Washington Post published an investigative report on how fossil fuel companies are "spending significant sums of money" to directly fund public schools that teach biased curriculums that promote their industries. And the most brazen example is buried in the middle...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 3, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Now can we agree that there is a jobs crisis? The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an anemic number of new jobs created in May, 54,000. In other words, we're moving backward in terms of putting Americans back to work, as indicated by the uptick in the unemployment...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 2, 2011 | Blog, Education
As educators close out this school year and go into planning mode for the next, what many of them truly dread is the fiscal nightmare being handed to them by miserly state governments who've decided to balance their budgets on the backs of helpless school children....
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 2, 2011 | Blog
From a top financial analyst group, new evidence that the human race, as a whole, has never been richer. So why are governments forcing austerity on so many of the world's peoples? “2010 was a damn good year,” Monish Kumar, a senior partner at the Boston Consulting...
