by Dave Johnson | Feb 15, 2011 | Blog, Economy
The country has been waiting for the promised action on jobs and unemployment since the new Congress came in. Nothing yet. We've had the show-vote on health care, we've had abortion, we've had silly conservative fluff bill after sily conservative fluff bill, but...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 15, 2011 | Blog
Will DC wake up and smell the real economy? In DC and Wall Street the economy is just fine. In fact it couldn't be better. Corporate profits and the stock market, after all, are way up -- the Fed has worked it's bubble-pumping magic yet again! And if you are in that...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 15, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » Did you see the Chrysler Super Bowl ad? Advertisers understand that Americans are hungry to be able to buy American-made goods again. And...
by Bill Scher | Feb 15, 2011 | Blog, Economy
Demanding bold solutions to today's jobs crisis.Read the series » Register for The Summit on Jobs & America's Future » There's a risk that the budget battle descends into a race to the bottom to see which party can cut the most. But that is not an inevitability....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 14, 2011 | Blog, Economy
LISTEN Deborah Weinstein of the Coalition for Human Needs explains how irresponsible federal budget cuts being proposed by conservatives in Congress will ultimately make the economy worse. The federal budget cuts being proposed by conservatives on Capitol Hill are not...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 14, 2011 | Blog, Financial Reform
The President's budget has just been released, and so has a Republican alternative from the House Appropriations Committee. Reading them is like watching two people play a video game and confusing it for the real world. These budgets don't reflect competing visions so...
