by Bill Scher | Feb 9, 2009 | Blog
Last week, Campaign for America's Future sounded the alarm that phone calls were running 100 to 1 against an economic recovery bill, giving Congress a false impression of what the American majority want
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 9, 2009 | Blog
Our new White House has begun a counterattack against America's grand divide between the rich and everyone else. But we face, new stats from the IRS make dramatically plain, a steeply uphill battle. Last Thursday, the day after President Obama announced a $500,000 cap...
by Bill Scher | Feb 6, 2009 | Blog
Gangs are groups of hoodlums that commit crimes and terrorize neighborhoods. In the Senate, we have a Gang of Moderates, and they're a gang alright. A gang that is trying to commit crimes of humanity to the economic recovery bill. The Plum Line has the latest draft of...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 6, 2009 | Blog
A decade or so ago, some states gave welfare recipients food stamp debit cards. Welfare mothers could use them to buy groceries with plastic, just like virtually everybody else in the check out line. Plastic made accounting easier for clerks because the debit cards...
by Roger Hickey | Feb 5, 2009 | Blog
At a press conference today by Wall Street mogul Peter Peterson, he and his invited speakers informed Americans who are losing their jobs and homes in record numbers that our nation’s biggest problem is the national deficit—and that the solution is to cut Social...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 4, 2009 | Blog
Three economists have laid out in stark terms what the stakes are for the economy in the economic recovery debate now going on in the Senate—and brought home just how dangerous conservative obstructionist rhetoric really is. "This cannot be allowed to fail," Alan...
