by Roger Hickey | Apr 8, 2009 | Blog
Jacob Hacker’s 2006 book, The Great Risk Shift, helped politicians understand the economic pressures on the average family — including the rising costs and increasing loss of health insurance — or the threat. And in his Health Care for America plan for health reform,...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 8, 2009 | Blog
Democratic Senator Chris Dodd is in deep trouble. According to Stuart Rothenberg, Dodd is the most vulnerable senator up for re-election in 2010 — despite the fact that he's coasted to election easily in this deep blue state since his first Senate run in 1980.
by Alan Jenkins | Apr 7, 2009 | Blog
As Obama’s first 100 days draw to a close, new research shows that addressing today’s economic crisis will require reinvesting in a bedrock American principle: Opportunity. The State of Opportunity, released last week by The Opportunity Agenda, measures our nation’s...
by Sara Robinson | Apr 7, 2009 | Blog
Terrance's last post heroically set out and engaged the two dominant scenarios about the American future that progressives seem to be wrestling with right now. These two scenarios might be described as: 1) Permanent Decline -- Due to Americans' native...
by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 6, 2009 | Blog
Despite the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, top corporate executives are still taking home staggeringly more than their counterparts a generation ago. Millions of Americans last year lost their jobs, their homes, and their retirement security....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 6, 2009 | Blog
The debate over how well President Obama did at the G-20 summit last week—and certainly the debate over who touched who first in the encounter between First Lady Michelle Obama and Britain's Queen Elizabeth—doesn't address the most important question of all: What did...
