by Leo Gerard | Nov 19, 2009 | Blog
It turns out a Texas windmill farm developer's request last month for nearly half a billion in stimulus funds to create 2,000 jobs in China doesn't rank first on the audacity scale. Shockingly for American taxpayers, and sadly for the staggering 10.2 percent of...
by Eric Lotke | Nov 19, 2009 | Blog
President Obama is home from China and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission today releases its 2009 report to Congress. What have we learned? That we need to pay attention because we’re getting schooled. While Obama posed for photos on the Great Wall...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 18, 2009 | Blog
What has the potential to save more lives, the insurance reforms in the House health care bill or the higher taxes on the rich the bill imposes to pay for those reforms? This rather odd question, suggests a new study on inequality and health, really does merit asking....
by Dave Johnson | Nov 18, 2009 | Blog, Economy
The country needs a jobs program and needs it right now. Cash for Caulkers would be a good start. A new Civilian Conservation Corps would be another. But let's not allow a jobs program to cover over the need for real changes in the structure and core principles of our...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 18, 2009 | Blog, Economy
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gets it. No wonder she drives the wingnuts batty. With the Senate befuddled by the antics of Joe Lieberman and Max Baucus on health care and the White House Clintonistas lobbying President Obama to devote his January State of the Union...
by Bill Scher | Nov 17, 2009 | Blog
The online version of Foreign Policy magazine currently blares the wildly premature headline "Who Killed Copenhagen? FP Plays The Blame Game." This apparently is what happens when a thoughtful if staid non-profit publication gets sold to a for-profit corporation -- in...
