by Bill Scher | Jun 30, 2010 | Blog
Yesterday House leaders formally proposed spending $10 billion to help recession-bruised, fiscally distressed states prevent layoffs of hundreds of thousands of teachers The proposal saves teaching jobs without increasing the budget deficit by cutting other stimulus...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 29, 2010 | Blog, Economy
It appears that the Senate, which shamed itself last week by refusing to take action on a jobs and tax fairness bill, will have an opportunity to redeem itself somewhat with a vote on extended unemployment benefits. The House attempted to pass by voice vote this...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 29, 2010 | Blog
Peace activists and progressives are the only people that I've heard connect war spending in Afghanistan and Pakistan with our financial security at home - until now, that is. Yesterday House Minority Leader made the connection explicit, telling reporters and editors...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 29, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The real deficit is jobs. That is one more of those things that everyone can see in front of their faces, but we're told it isn't what it is. There aren't enough jobs, and we're being told this is our fault because we wanted pensions and good wages and vacations and...
by Robert Borosage | Jun 29, 2010 | Blog
Republican House leader John Boehner laid out the Republcan world view in an interview with a friendly reporter at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Boehner defended the big banks from reform, arguing that the finanical reform bill was like "killing an ant with a nuclear...
by Sara Robinson | Jun 28, 2010 | Blog
Brad Johnson at The Wonk Room calls out the "Climate Peacocks" in Congress who are ostentatiously shaking their tailfeathers in mock outrage over the very idea that the Environmental Protection Agency might actually act as agents of environmental protection: Earlier...
