by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 27, 2011 | Blog
If the wealth of the wealthy really bothered Americans, flacks for grand fortune enjoy declaring, our political system would be shaking something fierce. They don't see a whole lot of shaking. Should we? Apologists for inequality have an all-purpose defense for our...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 25, 2011 | Blog
In 1983 NY hotel-chain-owning billionaire Leona Helmsley said, "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes..." As our country migrates from democracy to plutocracy, this more and more appears to be official policy. Again and again we see tax cuts for the...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 25, 2011 | Blog
"We have to understand. We have other patriots who love our country who have other ideas about how to solve our problems... We're patriots; they're patriots too." That was my friend Van Jones, speaking about the Tea Party at the Summit on Jobs and America's...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 25, 2011 | Blog
I admit sometimes I look at the GOP majority in the House and wonder where these people came from. (Their districts, I know.) Defending the Defense of Marriage Act? Hearings on Muslim Americans? Emergency meetings to defund NPR? All this while unemployment is at 10.2%...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 25, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Minimum Wage
In his remarks at the Summit on Jobs & America's Future, Van Jones summed up the GOP agenda: "They want to repeal the last century." As the GOP declares war on regulations that protect workers, the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory...
