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...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 3, 2009 | Blog, Economy
Can't buy me love Everybody tells me so Can't buy me love No, no, no, no From the 1964 Lennon/McCartney song, “Can’t Buy Me Love” Maybe you can’t buy love, but you can buy a job. Franklin Delano Roosevelt did it with the Works Progress Administration during the Great...
by Bill Scher | Dec 3, 2009 | Blog
Ezra Klein on the Washington Post recently argued that progressives should bargain away the current version of the public option in pending health care legislation in exchange for other reforms such as bigger subsidies, tougher rules on demographic discrimination and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 3, 2009 | Blog
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke employed his characteristic smoothness and conciliatory nature as he navigated the questioning at today's confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, helped by the largely gentle questioning by Democrats on the...
