by Zach Carter | Jul 6, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Heavy-hitting Wall Street political donors are withholding their money from the Democratic Party's campaign coffers, according to a Washington Post report making the rounds on Capitol Hill today. In a political environment in which almost no group is as publicly...
by Leo Gerard | Jul 6, 2010 | Blog
Leo W. Gerard: Stewart, you talk about power in a book you’ve written with economist Dr. Richard A. Levins. You called the manual, “Getting America Back to Work.” What’s the relationship between power and getting people back to work? Stewart J. Acuff: A big part of...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 6, 2010 | Blog
The country is in an economic emergency. Unemployment -- especially long-term unemployment -- is at extremely high levels and the recovery is faltering. Conservatives are obstructing efforts to solve this because they believe it helps them in the November election. To...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 6, 2010 | Blog
Just in: new data on our staggering income gap. Just emerging: a better understanding why such gaps make economic calamities inevitable. Years ago, in the mid 20th century, no one in the United States spent much time talking about rising income inequality, for the...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 5, 2010 | Blog
There's a new conventional wisdom forming in Washington, DC this July 4th, one that transcends party lines and the usual classifications of "left" and "right" as they're understood in that city. It's only being recognized now, because it deals with a number of...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 4, 2010 | Blog, Minimum Wage
July 4, 1776, Independence Day celebrates our fight to cast off colonial rule by a wealthy elite who were keeping the benefits of our labors for themselves. We fought this system and we won our independence. In the years since We, the People have built up solid public...
