by Richard Eskow | Jan 18, 2011 | Blog
Polls consistently find that the vast majority of Americans oppose cutting Social Security, whether they're progressives or Tea Partiers or anything in between. And most real experts agree it's not necessary. We're supposed to have a government "of the people, by the...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 18, 2011 | Blog, Economy
As Paul Krugman aptly summarizes, “recovery” is today's fool’s gold. Good news about the economy—higher holiday sales, lower unemployment filings—feeds a truly dangerous Beltway conventional wisdom: “We’re in recovery; now it is time to tighten our belts, cut...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 18, 2011 | Blog
The Senate is considering reforming the rules for filibusters. In the last few years the filibuster has been used so frequently that it is now conventional wisdom that "it takes 60 votes to pass a bill in the Senate." This is because the public, and apparently even...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 17, 2011 | Blog
When Martin Luther King Jr. gave the sermon at the National Cathedral in Washington on March 31, 1968 to highlight the Poor People's Campaign he was organizing for later that spring, unemployment was hovering just under 7 percent—for African Americans. The nationwide...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 16, 2011 | Blog
New governors in New York and California seem hell-bent on delivering a knockout blow to America's most historic social contribution, the mass middle class. A bit over a half century ago, in the years right after World War II, the United States delivered up onto the...
