by Mary Bottari | Mar 8, 2010 | Blog
Submitted by Mary Bottari on March 8, 2010 - 09:06 Watching the devolution of the bank reform bill in the U.S. Senate has been painful. Banking Chairman Chris Dodd’s original proposal unveiled last year had numerous strengths, most significantly the removal of bank...
by Bill Scher | Mar 8, 2010 | Blog
There were two ways last month's health care summit could have been a success. Republican leaders actually would support legislation that incorporated some of their ideas. Or, in the far more likely event that the GOP continued it's full-court obstructionist press,...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 7, 2010 | Blog
The White House wants to require firms that do business with the government to pay decent wages. That could work — if we go after all pay that's indecent. Labels can often cloud reality. Take the labels of “private” and “public” sector....
by Dave Johnson | Mar 7, 2010 | Blog
Headline at Drudge Report: Obama policies projected to add $9.7 trillion to debt by 2020... points to this story, National debt to be higher than White House forecast, CBO says, President Obama's proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 5, 2010 | Blog
As prominent Republicans continue to distance themselves from an internal Republican National Committee fund-raising presentation that emphasized "fear" as a primary motivator of "reactionary" potential donors, it pays to reexamine the evidence t
by Tula Connell | Mar 5, 2010 | Blog, Making it in America
Closing the New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. automotive plant in California will eliminate 25,000 jobs in the state and cost taxpayers $2.3 billion to replace the jobs lost, according to a March 3 report by University of California professor Harley Shaiken. The...
