by Eric Lotke | Dec 7, 2009 | Blog, Economy
Last week’s job’s summit focused on the fierce urgency of now. And well it should, with 18 percent unemployment and underemployment. But Obama also seemed to understand how short term needs overlap with long term goals. There’s just one sticking point. The short term...
by Bill Scher | Dec 7, 2009 | Blog
The Environmental Protection Agency formally declared that greenhouse gases are a pollutant that it can regulate under the existing Clean Air Act. And the timing of the announcement was no accident. Before the President travels to the Copenhagen climate summit, the...
by Bill Scher | Dec 7, 2009 | Blog
On Friday, Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Campaign for America's Future delivered the first round of petition signatures thanking Sen. Bernie Sanders for placing a "hold" on the nomination of Ben Bernanke for another term as Chair of the Federal Reserve,...
by Sam Pizzigati | Dec 6, 2009 | Blog
The U.S. House of Reps has voted to extend the only federal tax levy on grand accumulations of private wealth. But that extension essentially keeps in place all of George W.'s tax rate cuts on billionaire bequests. Congress flipped another page in the estate tax story...
by Bill Scher | Dec 4, 2009 | Blog
On this week's edition of WHMP's The LiberalOasis Radio Show, Jo Comerford of the National Priorities Project discussed with me the fiscal ramifications of the increase of troops in Afghanistan, and expressed significant concern that the ratio of military to...
by Bill Scher | Dec 3, 2009 | Blog, Economy
United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard sat down with OurFuture.org's Isaiah Poole to provide an inside view of the White House jobs summit. Watch it below. He noted that while there is great focus on quick action to deal with the current rise in unemployment, moving...
