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...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 15, 2010 | Blog
The staggering gap between CEO and worker pay, new research from three business scholars suggests, has left America's workplaces still more nasty, brutish, and short. We have today in academia, after 30 years of rising CEO pay, a vast scholarly literature on CEO...
by Zach Carter | Jul 15, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Wall Street reform passed Congress today, with three Republicans voting "yes," among them Scott Brown of Massachusetts. But Brown's vote came with a high price tag: he insisted on both hammering ordinary citizens with new taxes, instead of imposing them on the...
by Terrance Heath | Jul 15, 2010 | Blog
It would be funny, if only it wasn't reality. That's what I thought when I came across this while perusing videos on my iPhone recently. It's a pretty good compliation of the recent insanity. It's good political satire. If it was an obvious parody, I could laugh. But...
