by Leo Gerard | Jul 22, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
A post by Leo Gerard and Scott N. Paul Our nation faces rising unemployment, staggering debts, shrinking trade, and no sense of when (and if) a real recovery -- one that reaches Main Street and working families -- will take hold. As the federal government responds to...
by Robert Borosage | Jul 22, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
Washington's special genius is for gridlock. As we're seeing in the health care debate, the entire system is designed to frustrate action — even when Democrats have a popular president, 60 votes in the Senate and a large majority in the House. Moneyed interests trump...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 22, 2009 | Blog
Normally, working-class people don't think much about the Federal Reserve and, as a recent article in The New York Times suggests, the Federal Reserve doesn't spend much time thinking about working-class people. But at a community meeting in Cincinnati Tuesday night,...
by Bill Scher | Jul 21, 2009 | Blog
Today for the second day in a row, the President made formal remarks exposing the true agenda of the "don't rush health care" posse: "I understand that some will try to delay action until the special interests can kill it while others will simply focus on scoring...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 21, 2009 | Blog
The widespread frustration with this nation's perceived lack of urgency and focus on industrial policy was captured well in Monday's New York Times article on the subject, which contained this sobering fact: "The United States ranks behind every industrial nation...
by Bill Scher | Jul 20, 2009 | Blog
Five months ago, Republican rising star Gov. Bobby Jindal was tapped to formally respond to President Barack Obama's address to the joint session of Congress. Jindal's fact-challenged speech, dismissive of basic government functions like protecting against natural...
