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
by Bill Scher | Aug 30, 2010 | Blog
Yesterday on CBS' Face The Nation, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour applauded conservative Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller for opposing federal aid to his own state. On what grounds? Because slashing state budgets in the middle of a recession is no big deal. Gov....
by Zach Carter | Aug 30, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
A lot of CNBC anchors do not seem to understand how regulation works. In fact, it seems like the network's anchors don't really get how competition works. If you've tuned into the business channel this summer, chances are you've heard its anchors pushing the...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 30, 2010 | Blog
You wouldn't know it from this past weekend's media coverage of Glenn Beck's effort to co-opt the message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the site of his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, but there was a counterdemonstration that day that featured people...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 29, 2010 | Blog
'Soak the rich,' after years in the shadows, has suddenly become a policy option fit for discussion in 'respectable' media circles. At long last, we may be witnessing a fundamental paradigm shift in how we, as a society, talk about taxing the rich. Until this summer,...
