by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 20, 2011 | Blog
The rising public clamor for higher taxes on America's wealthy has conservative ideologues increasingly uneasy. For good reason. They don't have the numbers on their side. Or much history either. A simple but powerful chant is now starting to reverberate, all across...
by Jeff Bryant | Mar 19, 2011 | Blog, Education
Imagine taking your child to her first day of kindergarten and finding out that there won’t be a teacher for the class of 30 children until October. Imagine being a working family with two young children barely getting from paycheck to paycheck and getting told that...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 18, 2011 | Blog
As I wrote earlier, a funny thing happened on the way to budget solvency in some pretty red states: It didn't work. Budget cuts and austerity have left Texas in the red, and the legislature taking a hammer to the state's piggy bank, with an eye toward spending some of...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 18, 2011 | Blog
A funny thing on the way to state budget solvency in Texas and Mississippi, which are among the reddest of the red states. You can't get much more conservative than Texas' and Mississippi's governors, Rick Perry and Haley Barbour. The same goes for their budget...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 18, 2011 | Blog, Economy
This headline in The Washington Post earlier this week—House Republicans try to steer focus back to jobs—(after guess who took the focus off of jobs) highlights how silly the silly season has gotten for the right in Washington, but it also is a sign that even the...
