by Mary Bottari | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog
Wisconsin continues to spin out of control and a constitutional crisis looms as a judge this week again ordered Walker’s administration to halt implementation of his bill stripping Wisconsin public workers of collective bargaining rights. Walker's team moved to...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog
By now you have heard that the Majority Leader Eric Cantor said that Social Security "cannot exist if we want America to be what we want America to be." At least they are out in the open about their plans. So Campaign for America's Future wants to do something about...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Two steps forward, one step back. That's what we keep doing on the jobs front as long as we allow conservative budget austerity to drown out efforts to keep the jobs-producing machine revved up. The private sector generated a net increase of 230,000 jobs in March,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog
He said what? House Majority Leader Eric Cantor appears to have called for the eventual elimination of Social Security because it stands in the way of what "we" want America to be. Here's the quote, from NPR's "Morning Edition" today: I mean, just from the very notion...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 1, 2011 | Blog
In just seven years, the top annual pay for hedge fund managers has jumped from just over $1 billion to just shy of five times that total. The hedge fund industry’s trade journal has just released its annual figures for hedge fund manager earnings. The big...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 31, 2011 | Blog
"Dance with the one that brung you." It's an old saying, and an unwritten rule in politics: stick with the strategy and/or constituency that "brung you" to power, if you want to stay in power. Dance with the one that brung you, or you might not...
