by Dave Johnson | Aug 31, 2010 | Blog
Last weekend was the anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom, and Labor Day is next weekend. Last weekend Glenn Beck tried to hijack the MLK march anniversary in the name of the far right and their tea party noisemakers, but we...
by Zach Carter | Aug 31, 2010 | Blog
Ezra Klein has a pretty silly post up about the Wall Street regulation bill and the SEC's funding. He argues that since the SEC failed miserably in the years leading up to the crisis, it's absurd to see them getting more funding in its aftermath. Like bloated banks,...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 31, 2010 | Blog
Today marks the 100th anniversary of what may be the most ‘radical speech’ an American ex-President has ever delivered. The words of that former President, Theodore Roosevelt, still ring incredibly true today. By Sam Pizzigati and Chuck Collins Ex-Presidents almost...
by Robert Borosage | Aug 31, 2010 | Blog
The Wall Street Journal assails President Obama for "bait and switch on Social Security," because he's criticizing Republican plans to privatize Social Security, which the Journal says don't exist. The editorial then goes on to call for cutting benefits to "strengthen...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 30, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
America was formed as a government of, by and for We, the People. It says so right in the first words of our Constitution. To get that Constitution we rebelled against the King and England's aristocracy and their corporations, with their concentrated wealth and power....
by Richard Eskow | Aug 30, 2010 | Blog
There's been a lot of talk recently about the enormous power that's been given to the Deficit Commission, which is co-chaired by Alan "Social Security recipients are milking it" Simpson and dominated by people who have advocated cuts to Social Security and
