by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 19, 2010 | Blog
Today's image from the Rose Garden was a potent one: President Obama, standing with three of America's long-term jobless, calling on Congress to end the Republican filibuster of unemployment benefits and calling out Senate conservatives for their hypocrisy. In today's...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 19, 2010 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
Will you be at Netroots Nation in Las Vegas later this week? I will be on a panel, The 2010 Elections: Channeling the Power of Jobs, Populism and the Angry Voter, Thursday at 10:30am. Come on by and attend the panel! Here is the complete description: The 2010...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 19, 2010 | Blog
A brutal competition pits worker against worker continually now in this country. Five unemployed people vie with each other for each available job. It’s like a cruel game of musical chairs, with five desperate competitors for one seat. Workers who’ve lost cars to...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 18, 2010 | Blog
Make room for a new right-wing assault on scientific research. In the cross-hairs this time: the massive epidemiological evidence on inequality's horrific toll on our health and overall well-being. Just over three decades ago, in 1979, an obscure research paper began...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 18, 2010 | Blog
Over the weekend the San Jose News carried a story, Made in China, bought in China — for more, describing some of the barriers Chinese consumers face when buying goods made by non-Chinese companies -- even if the goods are made in China, The laptop computer Luo...
by Sara Robinson | Jul 16, 2010 | Blog
You've heard the latest one, right? President Obama -- or maybe it was Obama working hand-in-glove with BP -- deliberately blew up the Deepwater Horizon, sent 11 workers to their deaths, destroyed the country's biggest fishery, and smeared the coasts of five states...
