by Dave Johnson | Apr 29, 2011 | Blog
The Republicans voted to phase out Medicare and use the money for even more tax cuts for the rich. The public found out and turned out. So now they are coming up with new ways to mask the same thing. They call them "triggers," "across-the-board cuts" and "spending...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 29, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
Sometimes you can just see glimmers of something through the DC brain fog, other times it becomes so clear that you can't ignore it. The current DC brain-fog motto is, "if it doesn't work, do it more." Today's GDP-growth report shows that austerity isn't working, so...
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...
