by Tula Connell | Sep 2, 2010 | Blog
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka yesterday described the upcoming elections this way: This election is about economic patriots, and it’s also about corporate traitors. Economic patriotism resonates among working people and the millions ofAmerica's jobless workers--and...
by Bill Scher | Sep 2, 2010 | Blog
Soon after Congress passed health care reform, Minnesota Gov. and likely '12 presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty decried that "we now have the federal government reaching so far inside our society, dictating whether human behavior is good or not." A few weeks earlier,...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 2, 2010 | Blog
Read the rest of the series here. In the previous post in this series, I wrote: To progressives, it seems a given that of course we must do something to alleviate the suffering that the financial collapse and economic downturn have the inflicted on millions of...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 1, 2010 | Blog
A hedge fund manager's "investor letter" - really more of a staged, theatrical tantrum - has been getting a lot of attention lately. Daniel S. Loeb's diatribe demonstrates that banker greed is still out of control, and that it's as short-sighted and destructive as...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 1, 2010 | Blog
At the turn of the 20th Century, smoke meant jobs. When noxious fumes spewed from factory stacks, workers brought home paychecks. Industries hired. The future was bright as molten iron flowing from a blast furnace. In industrial Pittsburgh’s heyday, the smoke was so...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 1, 2010 | Blog
Sam Seder and I guest-hosted The Young Turks yesterday and spent our last few on-air minutes talking about Social Security and the Deficit Commission. We were discussing the fact that Simpson's personally objectionable behavior is only one aspect of the problem. There...
