by Terrance Heath | Apr 20, 2011 | Blog
Langston Hughes once asked, "What happens to a dream deferred?"; a rhetorical question answered with still more questions. The current economic crisis raises a similar question: What's happened to the American Dream? According to a recent survey, less than...
by Bill Scher | Apr 20, 2011 | Blog
Today on ABC's Good Morning America, House Tea Party Caucus founder Rep. Michele Bachmann explicitly voiced what many conservatives only mutter under their breath. She's for raising taxes ... just only on the poor and the middle-class. When asked by ABC's George...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 19, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
Donald Trump is getting traction. He is talking about trade, jobs, China, manufacturing, China, jobs, China and China -- and it is resonating with a public sick of being told to ignore what they can see in front of their faces. "Nobody, other than OPEC, is ripping off...
by Scott Hochberg | Apr 19, 2011 | Blog
Amidst the furor over Rep. Paul Ryan’s new budget proposal, advocates for strong retirement programs appear to be in a bind. On one hand, Ryan subjects Medicare and Medicaid to scathing cuts and a restructuring agenda so radical that they could no longer be called...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 19, 2011 | Blog
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? … ~ Langton Hughes, "Harlem" Whose Dream? Since Hughes wrote "Harlem" in 1951, literary critics have tried to identify the dream Hughes...