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....
by Bill Scher | Nov 17, 2008 | Blog
Bernie Horn is right that the most immediate fight we face is to prioritize massive public investment to get the economy back on track and de-prioritize short-term deficit reduction. One thing now is crystal clear: which side the President-Elect is on. On "60 Minutes"...
by Bill Scher | Nov 14, 2008 | Blog
Looking at the same data I did when diagnosing the conservative "secular problem," Karl Rove concludes: Then there were those who didn't show up. There were 4.1 million fewer Republicans voting this year than in 2004. Some missing Republicans had turned independent or...
