by Bill Scher | Nov 21, 2008 | Blog
Front page of the Daily Hampshire Gazette here in Northampton, MA offers some stark news. Unemployment lines have more than doubled since last year in the Western MA counties of Hampshire and Franklin, and the state unemployment offices don't have the staff yet to...
by Bill Scher | Nov 20, 2008 | Blog
Last week, the progressive mandate was felt in the Senate, as right-leaning Democratic Senator Max Baucus proposed
by Robert Borosage | Nov 19, 2008 | Blog
Free fall. The U.S. has lost private sector jobs for 10 straight months. One quarter of all businesses in the U.S. plan to cut payroll over the next year. Retail sales fell in October by the largest monthly drop on record. Auto sales have collapsed, driving the auto...
by Bill Scher | Nov 19, 2008 | Blog
Rick explored why Mitt Romney is compelled to bury his home state of Michigan and the automobile industry that generated his family's wealth. Let's also explore the fertilizer he's using. In his New York Times oped, Romney says: "First, [the US automakers'] huge...
by Bill Scher | Nov 18, 2008 | Blog
A safe prediction: Compared with the Bush Administration, the Obama Administration is going to invest more public dollars in rebuilding and modernizing American infrastructure. There will certainly be debate over how much investment by our government is needed . The...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 18, 2008 | Blog
In a Library of Congress room across the street from the Capitol, about 100 Capitol Hill staffers, activists and experts gathered to build the case for upending the conventional political wisdom that America can't afford right now to invest in itself and its people....
