by Alex Lawson | Mar 2, 2010 | Blog
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=885 * The Social Security program itself is race blind; the benefits it pays are a function of a worker’s earnings history and family situation. * Studies show African Americans receive modestly more in Social Security benefits for...
by Bill Scher | Mar 2, 2010 | Blog
Today in the Washington Post opinion section, Sen. Orrin Hatch called using Senate budget rules to pass health care an undemocratic affront to the Constitution: This use of reconciliation to jam through this legislation, against the will of the American people, would...
by Bill Scher | Mar 2, 2010 | Blog
In Sen. Jim Bunning's words, he's not obstructing because he's against unemployment insurance. (That would be Sen. Jon Kyl) . He just wants the cost of extending unemployment insurance to be offset by cutting back on the Recovery Act, so we don't increase the budget...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 1, 2010 | Blog
Deep down in our lobes, says new research from an international scientific team, sits a basic tilt toward fairness. Are we humans hard-wired to hoard or to “share the wealth”? Are we selfish by nature? Or do our psyches have a preference for equality...
by Bill Scher | Mar 1, 2010 | Blog
Minutes ago on the Senate floor, the Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl just defending Sen. Jim Bunning's filibuster by attacking the entire premise for unemployment insurance during a protracted period of job losses. Sen. Kyl argued that unemployment insurance would not...
by Bill Scher | Mar 1, 2010 | Blog
The exploitation of the Senate rules to obstruct the majority will has reach it's inevitable but inane endpoint. Sen. Jim Bunning has single-handledly forced the furlough of 2,000 transportation workers and cut off hundreds of thousands unemployed Americans from...
