by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 17, 2010 | Blog
A petition signed by more than 100,000 supporters of extending emergency unemployment benefits was sent to members of Congress earlier today, but this example of overwhelming public support has had no effect on Senate conservatives, who so far haven’t shown...
by Bill Scher | Nov 17, 2010 | Blog
What was that again about a "center-right" nation? A new CNN poll finds only one-third of Americans backs the congressional Republican position for extending the Bush tax breaks to those earning more than $250,000 a year. Nearly half of American share President...
by Zach Carter | Nov 17, 2010 | Blog
A month ago, President Barack Obama vetoed a bill that would have made it far more difficult for borrowers to prove that banks were engaging in foreclosure fraud. The bill was a complex, highly technical bailout for megabanks that have defrauded millions of borrowers,...
by Bill Scher | Nov 16, 2010 | Blog
Conservative austerity activists have long sought to whip up deficit hysteria and manipulate Washington into gutting Social Security and Medicare and stifling public investments. But Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a progressive member of the White House deficit commission, has...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 16, 2010 | Blog
A piece of conventional wisdom was debunked today by a new report on the 2010 midterm elections released by the Joint Center for Political Studies. One bottom-line conclusion of this report: It was not the failure of black voters to show up at the polls that caused...
