by Richard Eskow | Mar 2, 2011 | Blog
In Part I of this series we discussed the media's failure to accurately report the scope and nature of the banker crime wave around foreclosure fraud, and talked about the confusion over reports that the Administration has proposed a framework for settling the...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 2, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » March Madness has descended on Washington – and I’m not talking college basketball. With 25 million people in need of full-time work, in...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 2, 2011 | Blog
It probably seems like I'm "a day late and a dollar short," with a post about Ireland's economic disaster days after the New York Times story about the high cost of austerity measures in Ireland echoed all over the progressive blogosphere. But I'm not. It just took me...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 2, 2011 | Blog
It keeps getting recited as if it is holy writ: Public sector employees have better pay and benefits than private sector employees. And with that belief firmly planted in the public mind, private sector workers who have seen their own wages and benefits eroded...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 2, 2011 | Blog, Economy
"The American people's priorities are clear," said Boehner spokesman Michael Steel. "They want to keep the government open, and they want to cut spending." Uh. no. Americans have said agan and again their chief priority is JOBS and the the economy. It is bizarre. For...
