by Bill Scher | Jun 7, 2010 | Blog
Below are the top Twitter posts from Day One of the America's Future Now! conference, compiled by Terrance Heath for our daily "PM Update" blog roundup email. You can follow and react to the conference action on Twitter by searching for the hashtag #afn10. @livlylife...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 7, 2010 | Blog
The centerpiece of the first day of the America's Future Now! conference was expected to be a debate between representatives of two camps within the progressive movement: those who are supporters of President Obama who say the movement needs to show him more support...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 7, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
We're here at AFN - the America's Future Now conference - liveblogging a session called "Curbing Wall Street: Strategies Going Forward." It's a subject close to our heart. The panelists are Heather McGhee from Demos, Heather Booth from Americans for Financial Reform,...
by Mary Bottari | Jun 6, 2010 | Blog
When the Senate bank reform legislation passed in May, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said it sent the message to Wall Street "no longer can you recklessly gamble away other people's money." The bill told Main Street "you no longer have to fear that your savings,...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 4, 2010 | Blog
Disappointing jobs report sends stocks tumbling, Stocks tumbled Friday after the Labor Department said hiring remains weak and Hungary became the latest European country to report its economy is in crisis. Interest rates dropped as investors moved their money into the...
by Eric Lotke | Jun 4, 2010 | Blog
The new unemployment data are out and the headlines are all wrong. The headlines report unemployment of 9.7 percent in May, down a tick from 9.9 percent in April. It’s good news but it misses the point. Nonfarm employment grew by 431,000 last month. That’s nice, but...
