by Bill Scher | Mar 23, 2010 | Blog
President Barack Obama has just signed into law comprehensive health care reform, expanding coverage to 32 million Americans, cutting the deficit by over $1 trillion, and codifying the principle that every American has the right to affordable health insurance. The...
by Sara Robinson | Mar 23, 2010 | Blog
President Obama's "no-brainer" suggestion that the government get back into the direct lending business has such obvious fiscal merit that you'd think it would melt the heart of the most obdurate conservative. But it's getting resistance anyway -- which is proof that...
by Alan Jenkins | Mar 23, 2010 | Blog
Last Sunday, as the health care bill was being debated, 200,000 Americans gathered on the National Mall to urge action on another national priority: fixing our broken immigration system. Speakers included civil rights leaders like Ben Jealous of the NAACP, faith...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 22, 2010 | Blog
Sen. Jim DeMint famously predicted that health reform would be Obama's "Waterloo(1)," saying: "If we're able to stop Obama on this ... it will break him." It looks like Jim DeMint's crowd might be using the same obstructionist strategy toward financial reform. Here's...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 22, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Dot: No net job gains since 2000. 8 million jobs lost in the recession. Never mind jobs for the 86,000 new people entering the labor force every month... Dot: According to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) “congested highways, overflowing sewers, and...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 22, 2010 | Blog
David Frum is a conservative, former Bush speech-writer. He has the quaint view that Republicans in office should provide leadership, not zealotry. In this post, he describes the "crushing legislative defeat" conservatives have suffered on health care. Worth reading....
