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...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 10, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., introduced a bill today that is a meaningful response to the nation's jobs crisis. It still falls short of the need, but it would accomplish far more than the anemic measures that have been served up by Congress so far. The legislation...
by Bill Scher | Mar 10, 2010 | Blog
Since I had the temerity to mention that the America's wealthiest heirs should pay their fair share on their inheritance windfalls to help reduce the deficit, their front groups have been very busy attacking me. Yesterday I noted some of lies the American Family...
