by Tula Connell | Nov 3, 2008 | Blog, Minimum Wage
What bitter irony. Studs Terkel, who gave voice to working people throughout his life, passed away yesterday, just days before a potentially historic presidential election. Should Sen. Barack Obama win on Tuesday, his victory would be a sweet vindication for Terkel,...
by Bill Scher | Nov 3, 2008 | Blog
As David Sirota observed earlier, there are right-leaning forces within the Democratic Party looking to throw cold water on bold progressive ideas. And I also noted the possibility of averting such debilitating intra-party strife by building on a growing consensus...
by Terrance Heath | Oct 31, 2008 | Blog
A funny thing happened on the way to the bailout. A number of the members of the bucket brigade — that's us, taxpayers — realized that for all the billions of dollars worth of bailing we're doing, we still appear to be sinking. Our task seems to be keeping things...
by Bill Scher | Oct 31, 2008 | Blog
David Sirota astutely analyzed the tensions within the Democratic party yesterday, keying off of a Wall Street Journal piece. Rightly critical of counterproductive public infighting, he concludes: ...what that inappropriately anticipatory behavior suggests is 1) that...
by Bill Scher | Oct 30, 2008 | Blog
Amity Shlaes clearly doesn't like that my recent post called out that her revisionist history of the New Deal is based on misleading numbers. She responded on the National Review blog The Corner: (emphasis added) Scher says that The Forgotten Man has been “found to...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 30, 2008 | Blog
The health care plan advocated by presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is hazardous to your health. That is the point of this 30-second video by Health Care for America Now that succinctly hits its key flaws: It taxes the health benefits people get from their jobs,...
