by Dave Johnson | Mar 6, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
ABC News has been doing a series on Made In America, outfitting a Dallas family's home entirely with products that are made here. Click through to see videos from this week, before and after photos, a guide to finding goods Made In America on the Internet, as well as...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 6, 2011 | Blog
Lavishly paid corporate executives, flush with tax-deductible taxpayer dollars, have plenty of reason to relish the right-wing assault on 'overpaid' public employees. But we can wipe that grin off their faces. Somebody is getting rich off our tax dollars. That...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 4, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
Let's begin with a multiple choice test. The United States of America is: a) a for-profit corporation; b) a family, like the typical American family in a 1960's sitcom; c) a nation -- with a national economy and nation-sized problems. If you answered "c," there's good...
by Steven Capozzola | Mar 4, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
ABC World News has been running segments this week about the importance of buying American-made products. In addition to their reality-TV-style experiment of refurbishing a suburban Dallas home with only Made-in-USA goods, news anchor Diane Sawyer pointed out...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 4, 2011 | Blog, Economy
See if this sounds familiar. Get elected by promising jobs. But once in office push through tax cuts for the wealthy and their corporate masks, and cut jobs. Then use the resulting budget deficits and jobs crisis to whip up pubic panic. Finally, use that panic to push...
