by Eric Lotke | Feb 5, 2010 | Blog, Economy
Two items from my inbox: 1. The Economic Policy Institute has a new report detailing the positive impacts of transportation infrastructure spending. A $34.3 billion jobs package will create approximately 480,000 direct and indirect jobs. The report includes...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 5, 2010 | Blog
The president rightly calls it a "no brainer." Direct lending to college students that saves $90 billion in excess subsidies to big banks and uses it to pay for college grants for poor kids and tax breaks for working families to help pay for tuition. This isn't...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 4, 2010 | Blog
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by Dave Johnson | Feb 4, 2010 | Blog
Lest we forget where the huge deficits and debt came from... On August 25, 2001, just seven months after taking office, George W. Bush learned that his budgets had already erased the previous administration's huge surplus -- that was paying off our country's debt at a...
by Sara Robinson | Feb 4, 2010 | Blog
A village cannot revise village life to suit the village idiot. -- Frank Schaeffer On Tuesday, the Daily Kos published a new Research 2000 study showing the current state of belief in the GOP. Though the results aren't anything new -- indeed, the study just puts hard...
