by Sam Pizzigati | May 30, 2011 | Blog
The American middle class, concludes a new study from the ad industry’s top trade journal, has essentially become irrelevant. In a deeply unequal America, if you’re over 35 and your income hasn’t yet topped $200,000 a year, you don’t matter. The chain-smoking ad...
by Richard Eskow | May 29, 2011 | Blog
While I'm posting videos, here's a debate on the death of the middle class I did on Russian Television with Harvard economist and Cato Institute maven Jeffrey Miron and Samuel Sherraden of New America. Samuel's a good guy, but Miron and I really went at it. My answer...
by Richard Eskow | May 29, 2011 | Blog
I participated in an MSNBC panel discussion with Cenk Uygur, Sam Seder, and conservative Matt Lewis. We discussed Cain, Mitch McConnell's insistence on Medicare cuts as part of a budget deal, and Eric Cantor's insistence on no disaster relief funds for Missouri unless...
by Richard Eskow | May 29, 2011 | Blog
On Monday we'll hear a lot of Memorial Day speeches about honoring our fallen soldiers and their disabled comrades. On Tuesday some of the politicians giving those speeches will try to cut benefits for them and their families. In the words of Ben Franklin, "Well done...
by Bill Scher | May 27, 2011 | Blog
Faced with a rapidly growing groundswell for Elizabeth Warren to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency, the Senate Republican leaders employed the ultimate obstruction on behalf of their Wall Street donors. It's up to us to make sure the public knows whose...
by Robert Borosage | May 27, 2011 | Blog
Democrats have their strut back. The Republican assault on Medicare handed Democrats a club to pummel them with — as demonstrated by Democrat Kathy Hochul’s remarkable special election victory Tuesday in New York’s 26th congressional district, a longtime GOP...
