by Robert Borosage | Mar 4, 2009 | Blog
It ain't easy. No use jokin'. Everything's broken."-Bob Dylan We can't go back to the old economy. That economy -- marked by booms and busts, Gilded Age inequality, declining wages, growing household debts, and unsustainable trade deficits -- didn't work very well for...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 3, 2009 | Blog
Far be it from me to criticize anyone in government. (Yeah. Right.) But there's something that's been on my mind ever since people started piling on the auto industry, and this comment from Rahm Emmanuel brought it back to mind. The president's chief of staff...
by Bill Scher | Mar 3, 2009 | Blog
The SEIU has a brilliant new video skewering corporate executives and lobbyists pathetically trying to stoke panic around the Employee Free Choice Act, which will simply give employees the power to decide how to approach the question of unionization: be it ballot...
by Bill Scher | Feb 26, 2009 | Blog
Today's presidential budget proposal if enacted would be the second step, following the new American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, in turning the ship of state away from the cliffs of conservatism and on the path of active progressive government. At least on the...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 26, 2009 | Blog
It would be easy in these troubled times to shrink from campaign promises, to cower from the greatness that might have been, to claim that the beast of the Bush recession had devoured the nation’s potential to achieve great goals. President Barack Obama chose instead...
