by Bill Scher | Jan 8, 2009 | Blog
In President-elect Barack Obama's major economic address today, he laid out one dozen key planks of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, including initiatives to: 1. "double the production of alternative energy in the next three years" 2. "modernize more than...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 8, 2009 | Blog
Today, President-elect Barack Obama laid out the framework for his economic recovery plan and made the case for why Congress must "move as quickly as possible on behalf of the American people" to get a recovery plan passed, "working weekends if necessary," he added,...
by Eric Lotke | Jan 8, 2009 | Blog
There were no theatrics. No single women came in to protest life’s travails, no displaced workers told of the factory shut down. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic Steering and Policy Committee Forum was government as it should be. Serious people hard at...
by Sara Robinson | Jan 8, 2009 | Blog, Economy
Here it is: our moment of economic truth. We're standing at that historic fork in the road where the nation decides, now and for the foreseeable future, whether it's going to hang on to the catastrophic assumptions of the free-market fundamentalists and rely once more...
by Eric Lotke | Jan 7, 2009 | Blog
Don’t fall for it. The Republicans are attacking President-elect Barack Obama’s nomination of Eric Holder as attorney general. There are “red flags,” says Senator Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, starting with the pardon of financier Marc Rich. Don’t fall for it. Losing the...
