by Dave Johnson | Mar 11, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
There is a great deal of pressure on the Obama administration to declare China as a currency manipulator, and with very good reason: they are manipulating their currency. This manipulation gives goods made in China a huge price advantage over goods made in other...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 11, 2010 | Blog
It is, as Presidente Obama stated, a "no brainer." Cut the $90 billion in subsides that go to banks to make risk free student loans that are GUARANTEED BY THE GOVERNMENT, go to direct lending, and use the money saved to incrase Pell grants and tuition tax credts for...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 11, 2010 | Blog
Senator Sherrod Brown, head of the subcommittee in charge of overseeing the Federal Reserve, has written President Obama urging him to use the THREE vacancies on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors to make the Fed more accountable. Letter and Huff Post report...
by Alex Lawson | Mar 10, 2010 | Blog
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/OASDIbenies.html In December 2008, over 9.3 million people received Social Security disability benefits 9.3 million people with disabilities, their spouses and children 7.4 million disabled workers under the full retirement age 1.9...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 10, 2010 | Blog
Financial reform, as it is called, shouldn't be all that complicated. Break up the banks deemed "too big to fail," since that offends any possibility of market discipline and puts taxpayers on the hook for future bailouts. Crack down on gambling with other peoples'...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 10, 2010 | Blog, Economy
The economy is still getting worse more slowly. We lost "only" 36,000 jobs last month. We need to create 11 million new jobs just to get back to where we were before "free-market" conservatives took over our government and dismanted the protections and regulations...
