by Eric Lotke | Sep 7, 2010 | Blog
The complaints are starting on the new Obama administration. Some are concerned that he filled his administration with former Clinton hands, reflecting the old school (if more competent), not the change we need. “What worries me is there is not one person in the...
by Alan Jenkins | Sep 7, 2010 | Blog
Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is known for housing inmates in tent cities in the desert and making them wear pink clothes as humiliation, but also for allegations of racial profiling and abusive treatment of Latinos, inside and outside of his jailhouse....
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 5, 2010 | Blog, Economy
American corporate CEOs, an eye-opening new study documents, have discovered a quick fix that almost guarantees good times for the executive set. They kill jobs. If you started last year on the payroll at Verizon or Alcoa or Boeing or IBM, you may have found yourself...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 4, 2010 | Blog
If you had a company and could make people work for free, keeping all the proceeds just for yourself, you might do that. If you could. What’s stopping you? There are plenty of unemployed people in the country and in the world – more every day thanks to population...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 4, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The stimulus worked but was not enough. Here is the result: This is known as "the scariest jobs chart," from
by Richard Eskow | Sep 3, 2010 | Blog
Events of the last week have made the Deficit Commission an embarrassment. Co-Chair Alan Simpson is a one-man disaster movie, compulsively offending one key voting bloc after another. Commission member Paul Ryan faced an angry crowd over his anti-Social Security...
