by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 19, 2010 | Blog
The 21st century has opened with a decade that has seen the vast majority of Americans go backwards economically. Just-released Census stats tell that tale — but not the whole income story. The U.S. Census Bureau last week closed the book on the first decade of...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 17, 2010 | Blog
Elizabeth Warren's first phone call after being named to her new White House position was to a group of progressive bloggers. Is that significant? Maybe not, but it certainly looks like Warren's appointment, and the establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 17, 2010 | Blog
I just got off a "blogger call" with Elizabeth Warren, who President Obama just appointed as a Special Assistant in charge of setting up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. I was able to ask her a question, and asked, "You are about to go up against the most...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 17, 2010 | Blog
Who counts and who doesn't count? We hear so much about the "middle class" but rarely about the plight of the poor. And of course we hear again and again that the wealthy are "successful" and the "job-creators" who shouldn't be "punished" by being asked to give...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 17, 2010 | Blog
The New York Times today is publishing yet again news about an important Democratic Party constituency, this time union members, threatening to sit on its hands in the November elections, giving Republicans a clear shot at a takeover of at least one house of Congress....
