by | Jan 21, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
There is no swifter way to alienate working class voters than to name an outsourcing CEO to lead your jobs strategy. Yet that’s exactly what President Obama is doing. General Electric CEO Jeffery Immelt has fooled the media and the White House into believing that he...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 20, 2011 | Blog
Social Security Works has assembled a set of slides that illustrate the Democratic Party's striking decline in voter opinion on the issue of Social Security. They're all worth seeing, but one of them especially demands attention: When asked whether they trust the...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 20, 2011 | Blog
In a column today, Hubris heading for a fall, George Will lays out his problem with America's system of decision-making by We, the People. The idea that America's problem of governance is one of inadequate resources misses this lesson of the last half-century: No...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 20, 2011 | Blog, Minimum Wage
Will the president's State of the Union address next Tuesday be another transcendent Obama moment? As we've witnessed repeatedly, from the moment he burst on the national scene at the 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston to last week in Tucson, President Obama can...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 20, 2011 | Blog, Economy
In the much-buzzed-about Sunday New York Times Magazine article by Peter Baker on President Obama's search for an "exciting" jobs plan that could be offered in his State of the Union address next week, a White House adviser describes Obama as "really frustrated that...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 20, 2011 | Blog
The White House Looks for Work is an online preview of a coming story by Peter Baker in the NY Times Magazine, looking behind the scenes in the White House as they tried to move "from crisis to anemic recovery." Baker reports on a late-December meeting to prepare for...
