by Eric Lotke | May 25, 2011 | Blog
Enough with blaming public employees for all of America’s problems. Last week public employees in Oregon marched on the state Capitol with a billion dollars worth of recommendations for government efficiencies and revenue enhancements. On Monday in Lansing, Michigan,...
by Richard Eskow | May 25, 2011 | Blog
"Money doesn't talk," sang Bob Dylan, "it swears." Rep. Patrick McHenry gave the week's most famous seventy year old a dark birthday gift on Tuesday by proving that those lyrics still ring true after nearly half a century. McHenry's savage attack on Elizabeth Warren...
by Dave Johnson | May 24, 2011 | Blog
In DC the elite are gathered around tables discussing budget cuts but not jobs to cure a deficit largely caused by a lack of jobs and by tax cuts. The last time these DC geniuses gathered around tables they extended tax cuts for the wealthy, dramatically worsening the...
by Brian Dockstader | May 24, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
“There is only one person who should lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and that is the brilliant advocate who championed it, the remarkable administrator who has helped get it off the ground, and the middle class champion who will make it work – Elizabeth...
by | May 24, 2011 | Blog, Economy
How can we make sense of the spectacle that's been unfolding across the American political landscape? Politicians in Wisconsin, Ohio and a dozen other states are trying to take away workers' right to organize and bargain for a better life. But that's not all. In...
by Dave Johnson | May 24, 2011 | Blog
"Budgets are more than collections of numbers. They are a statement of our values." All we hear about in the corporate/conservative "mainstream" media is the Tea Party (Koch) line saying we need to cut taxes for the rich and pay for it by cutting the things We, the...
