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...
by Zach Carter | Jul 15, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Good news: The Senate just secured 60 votes to proceed on Wall Street reform, clearing the way for the legislation's final passage today or Saturday. The legislation garnered the votes of every Democrat except Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., who argued that the bill was...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 15, 2010 | Blog
The United States Chamber of Commerce has released an "open letter" to the President, Congress, and the American people which lays out its blueprint for our political future. It lays out the current Republican playbook in stark terms, and it reads like the battle plan...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 15, 2010 | Blog
Conservatives have reverted back to calling for corporate tax cuts to stimulate the economy and put people to work. Consider this mindless reflex rather than policy. Corporations are sitting on $1.7 trillion in cash, yet not hiring people. A furious argument is waged...
