by Bill Scher | Mar 18, 2009 | Blog
Yesterday, the Washington Post front page blared "Anger Over [AIG] Depletes Obama's Political Capital." And today, we see more vocal criticism from
by Robert Borosage | Mar 18, 2009 | Blog
Who stands in the way of the reforms vital to get us out of the deep hole we are in? Republicans, of course, have decided to be the party of "no," staking their future on President Obama's failure. But that isn't a surprise. The entrenched interests whose oxen get...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 17, 2009 | Blog
It's almost enough to make you feel sorry for Republicans. Trounced in November's election, faced a popular president, and a voting public that seems to have rejected their conservative politics, now they're stuck with Rush Limbaugh as the de facto head of their...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 16, 2009 | Blog
The New York Times has an article up that takes a look at the Massachusetts health care plan and it's problems dealing with medical costs, and underscores something we'll examine further in a report we're releasing tomorow: a plan like the Massachusetts plan —...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 15, 2009 | Blog
Forbes magazine, our globe’s premier scorekeeper for the games rich people play, last week delivered its latest annual tally of the world’s billion-dollar fortunes, the first since the world economy went into meltdown mode. The Forbes verdict: We’re...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 13, 2009 | Blog, Minimum Wage
As President Bush and conservative leaders were still touting the "soundness" of the economy in 2007, trends among the working poor were already beginning to tell a different story. After two years of declines in the number of people characterized as "poor" despite...
