by Dave Johnson | Apr 4, 2011 | Blog
Today, We Are One, standing in solidarity with millions of working people from every walk of life – for the right to bargain collectively for good, middle-class jobs. Join us in solidarity with working people in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and dozens of other states...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 3, 2011 | Blog
Hedge fund honchos bet on stocks. They bet on gold. They bet on lawsuits. Most of all, they bet that the rest of us will never wise up to the awesome giveaway our current tax code ladles on them. Only in America can someone make $85 million in a year and feel...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 2, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Writers love coming up with absurd stories on April Fool's Day and then trying to pass them off as real news. So let's play a game: Which of these stories are real and which are just April Fool's Day pranks? Meet my friend Berkshire and his wife, Anne: A review of...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog, Economy
I think Alonya was suggesting at the end that I was being a downer about those job figures ... I believe the current slang term for that kind of thing is "buzz kill." Oh, well! For a change, all of the political negativity coming from my general vicinity was directed...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Oh, Democrats, Democrats, Democrats. Your party's symbol's an ass - a word that was on John Boehner's lips this week, and maybe some other people's too. Here's how it went down: First House Republicans proposed $32 billion in cuts. The President offered $6.5 billion....
by Leo Gerard | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
The nation’s greedy corporations and insatiable wealthy are fattening themselves on workers. There’s no trickle down. It’s the opposite; the rich have been sucking the economic lifeblood from the middle class for decades. When reckless Wall Street banksters get...
