by Isaiah J. Poole | May 4, 2010 | Blog
There's a new study today that shows once again how insanely wrong conservatives are when they say that extending unemployment benefits in today's economy only discourages people from finding work. \ Just ask the people who participated in the study of the long-term...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 4, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The BlueGreen Alliance is a coalition of union and environmental organizations "Green is gold," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she stressed the importance of the coalition in building on the job-creation work started by the Recovery Act last year. "Know your power...
by Richard Eskow | May 3, 2010 | Blog
An anonymous email's been making the rounds on Wall Street from some loser who thinks he's a shark. It's a nasty piece of work that reveals the mentality of the people that have been running our economy for some time, thanks to deregulation and political influence...
by Alex Lawson | May 3, 2010 | Blog
I am a founding member of The Other 98% and I am really proud of this growing organization. We are speedily closing in on 30,000 facebook fans since the beginning of April. I am really proud of the awesome video that we made to showcase our involvement in the Show...
by Terrance Heath | May 3, 2010 | Blog
The only things more astounding than conservatives' record of failure, are their denials of "personal responsibility" for the ensuing disasters, and their attempts to blame somebody — anybody — else. Their response to the growing ecological...
by Zach Carter | May 3, 2010 | Blog, Financial Reform
Despite all of the attention heaped on the Treasury Department and the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Federal Reserve served as the chief bank bailout engine in the U.S. economy during the . But unlike the Treasury, the Fed isn't subject to basic government...
