by Terrance Heath | Apr 28, 2011 | Blog
Race & Reality, Pt. 2 When the jobs-focused plenary panel at America's Future Now convenes— with Angela Glover-Blackwell, Rich Trumka, Jared Bernstein, and Bob Herbert — it's likely they will continue a discussion America desperately needs, and that...
by Bill Scher | Apr 28, 2011 | Blog
Before ExxonMobil announced a 69% jump in their profits today, the oil giant's top lobbyist launched an attack on Democrats who have long proposed ending subsidies to Big Oil and instead invest in clean energy. Politico reported: “Over the last week as earnings season...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 28, 2011 | Blog
The first quarter growth figures—annual growth of 1.8% during the first three months of the year—are an ominous reminder of the reality that Washington has forgotten. This economy is in trouble. For most Americans, the recession has not ended. Growth is...
by Leo Gerard | Apr 28, 2011 | Blog
The Clearwater Paper Corp. in Lewistown, Idaho chose the king cobra to symbolize its workplace safety program. A cobra. One of the deadliest snakes on the planet. Every day on his way to and from work at Clearwater, John Bergen III drove past a billboard in the...
by Jeff Bryant | Apr 28, 2011 | Blog, Education
To all those out there who are clamoring for "market-based" approaches to education reform, please tell me this: What kind of a business slashes inventory in the face of increasing demand? Because that is exactly what's going on with public education in America today....
by Richard Eskow | Apr 28, 2011 | Blog
Ben Bernanke's voice has been known to put humans into a trance even under the best of circumstances, and I was under the influence of a fever and some cold medications. Still, other observers reported a similar reaction to my own. The Fed Chair's press conference...
