by Richard Eskow | Mar 3, 2010 | Blog
At what point does "bipartisanship" begin to erode the democratic process? Here's my answer: When it's used to take decision-making power away from voters and place it in the hands of a governing elite - an elite which acts in secret so that its members cannot be held...
by Sara Robinson | Mar 2, 2010 | Blog
My adopted home town of Vancouver, BC is returning to normal this week. The party's over, the Olympic banners are coming down, and the world is catching its planes for home. But the Canadian flags are still flying everywhere against the late winter skies, thanks to a...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 2, 2010 | Blog
In the middle of this terrible jobs crisis Whirlpool is closing a factory in the US and sending the jobs to Mexico. Their Mexican workers will be paid $70 a week so they won't be buying any refrigerators. As I wrote the other day, Our system is broken when "the...
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...
