by Eric Lotke | Oct 13, 2009 | Blog
New public opinion research by the Economic Policy Institute contains reassuring findings. The American people are smarter than they sometimes look on TV. The survey of 802 registered voters in September 2009, revealed a clear sense of who’s winning and who’s losing...
by Bill Scher | Oct 13, 2009 | Blog
Just as the Senate Finance Committee is about to pass a health care bill without a public option, the insurance lobby's last-minute hissy fit exposed the weakness of its argument against a public option. America’s Health Insurance Plans, the main insurance lobby...
by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 11, 2009 | Blog
In closely knit communities, people care about each other and help each other, too. But healthy “social fabrics,” as the expression goes, can tear. Inequality can tear them. The wider the income gaps between us, the less we share in common, the less we...
by Bill Scher | Oct 11, 2009 | Blog
Last week, I struck a hopeful note after GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham expressed interest in a climate bill compromise that included a carbon cap in exchange for support for some nuclear power and coastal drilling. But my expectations it would really happen remained low....
by Dave Johnson | Oct 11, 2009 | Blog
I'm reading a a review of"Capitalism: A Love Story" at naked capitalism, and came across this, "I grew up in small towns dominated by manufacturing plants, and I remember that they were prosperous, optimistic, and stable. People who had good jobs at the local mill...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 9, 2009 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
Short-term gains for a few. Long-term harm to the rest of us. Again and again we have seen American industries exported, the plants closed, the jobs lost, and government officials just letting it happen. The workers in the other countries are almost always paid less...
